We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Initial setup is easy to configure."
"One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"It performs very well."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"One of the main characteristics that Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has given us is granularity and visibility."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"We have unified management. It is one of the advantages of this product."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring. We can easily monitor what kind of stuff comes over to our network and we can then check the dashboard and work accordingly."
"The notifications, the visibility, and the deployment are the most valuable. It could be packaged in such a way that it took a lot of time and resources off our hands, so it was more efficient."
"Security effectiveness is the most valuable feature. Operational efficiency, reporting, and support are also good."
"The solution helps protect network security by offering threat prevention, addressing vulnerabilities, and utilizing blades."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"I think they have pretty much mastered what can be done. There are some nuances like when you fail over from one cluster member to the other, the external IP address takes about two minutes to fail over."
"The memory and hard disk capability could be strengthened."
"CloudGuard Network Security's pricing is expensive. We have encountered issues with its licensing."
"It can be difficult to install properly without prior training"
"Check Point CloudGuard is not a feature-centric product because Check Point concentrates on security."
"The product needs to improve support. They don't consider my case the number one priority even though I want a quick resolution."
"The threat scanning system should categorize the level of threats to enhance reliable data interpretation."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Illumio. See our Azure Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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