We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Hillstone CloudEdge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"Network filtering is valuable. The scalability capability from the cloud-native service helps us a lot because it simplifies our day-to-day maintenance activity."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The UI could be improved."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"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."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0. 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 Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". 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 Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with .
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