We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"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 stable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"Great security and connectivity."
"I can easily configure it."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"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."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"We find it's different implementing it region-to-region. It might help if it was universal across all regions."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"The threat intelligence part could be better. I don't see why our customers have to get an additional solution with Azure Firewall. It would be great if they made it on par with Palo Alto."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". 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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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