We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"The solution is stable."
"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 Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"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."
"I can easily configure it."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the configuration, it is very clear."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"The solution is reliable and scales well."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"K2-Series' best features include its scalability, which is the best on the market."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"It caters to typical use cases across various technologies. MDR and XDR, for example, focus on user and endpoint protection. It's pretty straightforward."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"They've become quite expensive."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"Azure Firewall has limited visibility for IDPS, no TLS inspection, no app ID, no user ID, no content ID, no device ID. There is no antivirus or anti-spyware. Azure Firewall doesn't scan traffic for malware unless it triggers an IDPS signature. There is no sandbox or machine learning functionality, meaning we are not protected from Zero-day threats. There is no DNS security and limited web categories."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"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."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task."
"Its networking features could be better."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"It is recommended that the Palo Alto Networks K2-Series be implemented step by step for the Panorama. Sometimes we can't overwrite the configurations because it fails."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Azure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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