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."Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"Azure Firewall's feature that I have found most valuable is its scalability."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"The solution has many useful features. For example, the solution allows users to create virtual IP addresses."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"The most valuable feature for me is that you have just one license. You can test and implement everything you need with one license. You do not need to pay for separate module licenses when you want IPS or other features."
"The tool's most valuable features are threat prevention and protection mechanisms."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The ease of deployment has been nice. It is like managing any of our on-prem firewalls."
"Additionally, the centralized reporting and management, accessible through a single pane of glass, offer consistency and efficiency across multi-cloud environments."
"The most valuable feature for us is the simplicity of creating this environment. Even though our current cloud usage is limited, the process of setting up machines in the product and establishing an HR system was straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the ease of administration with the cloud management extension and the cloud licensing model."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"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 better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"The threat intelligence aspect of this particular firewall is not at par with other providers."
"The solution lacks artificial intelligence and machine learning. It might be in the roadmap. However, currently, it's not available."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"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."
"We find it's different implementing it region-to-region. It might help if it was universal across all regions."
"Right now, with Azure Firewall, we cannot have a normal inbound traffic flow. For inbound, Microsoft suggests using application gateways, so the options are very limited. I cannot use this firewall as an intermediate firewall because of the limitations, and I cannot point routing to another firewall. So if I want to use back-to-back firewall architecture in my environment, I cannot use Azure Firewall for that type of configuration either."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved."
"The SD-WAN could be better."
"In the past year, I noticed that the challenging part, especially in the cloud, is upgrading to the next release of the firewall. Unlike on-premise upgrades, it's not as simple in the cloud. You need to recreate the machine, which makes the process more complex."
"Check Point could show us use cases that would help us in Czech and could help us with security threats in our specific country."
"Easier optimization techniques can definitely help with better performance of the OS, as using the vanilla software doesn't actually showcase the real capability of the software."
"It is somewhat problematic in the area of the cloud."
"The convergence time between cluster members is still not perfect. It's far away from what we get in traditional appliances. If a company wants to move mission-critical applications for an environment to the cloud, it somehow has to accept that it could have downtime of up to 40 seconds, until cluster members switch virtual IP addresses between themselves and start accepting the traffic. That is a little bit too high in my opinion. It's not fully Check Point's fault, because it's a hybrid mechanism with AWS. The blame is 50/50."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security needs to improve the management of the actual firewalls. Improvement is also needed for the consolidated UI of different security aspects."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 121 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 "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Azure Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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