Azure Firewall Manager vs FireMon Security Manager comparison

Microsoft and FireMon are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. Microsoft is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.0, while FireMon is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.8. Microsoft holds a 1.9% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to FireMon’s 16.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of FireMon users who would recommend it.

Azure Firewall Manager

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100% willing to recommend

FireMon Security Manager

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

FireMon Security Manager and Azure Firewall Manager compete in network security management, with Azure Firewall Manager having an advantage due to its integration capabilities within Microsoft's cloud ecosystem, while FireMon Security Manager is noted for cost-effectiveness and ease of deployment.

Features: FireMon Security Manager provides real-time network monitoring, automated compliance validation, and a comprehensive policy overview. Azure Firewall Manager is known for seamless integration with Azure services, central management of security policies, and its web application firewall capabilities.

Room for Improvement: FireMon Security Manager could enhance cloud compatibility, improve user interface design, and expand automation capabilities. Azure Firewall Manager might improve support for non-Azure platforms, provide more competitive pricing options, and enhance offline management capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FireMon Security Manager is easy to deploy on-premises and offers strategic consultancy services. Azure Firewall Manager benefits from native Azure integration, simplifying management for organizations within the Microsoft ecosystem, with both providing solid customer support.

Pricing and ROI: FireMon Security Manager generally has lower upfront costs and a quicker ROI suitable for small to mid-sized businesses. Azure Firewall Manager, priced more at a premium, fits enterprises looking for robust features and ecosystem integration, reflecting each product's targeted market segment.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Firewall Manager

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

13th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Microsoft Security Suite (31st)

FireMon Security Manager

Ranking in Firewall Security Management

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of Azure Firewall Manager is 1.9%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of FireMon Security Manager is 16.2%, up from 16.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Firewall Security Management

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Gunjan Singh.

Senior Consultant at Capgemini

May 26, 2023

Useful testing, simple configuration, and scales well

We use Azure Firewall Manager for testing and security policies The most valuable feature of Azure Firewall Manager is the testing and configuration. The solution can improve the integration with open-source tools. I have been using Azure Firewall Manager for approximately seven months. I rate…

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JeffReese

Senior Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 25, 2022

Makes compliance much easier compared to doing it manually, and automates policy changes across environments

People have a tendency to just add rules to firewalls, but they don't go back and take rules away. Some of our customers have thousands of unused rules that have been sitting out there for over a year. In one report, FireMon tells us there are, say, 1,000 rules that can be taken out and it gives us the ability to disable those for a year and to track when we made our changes. After a year, we can go back and eliminate the rules, to bring the configuration down to an almost human-readable level. It also identifies risks in your environment and helps to prioritize fixes. It actually rates the risk level, meaning you look for the red and try to bring everything to green.

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Pros

"It is easy to install and does not require any plugins for your browser."

"The tool's support is good."

"The solution is very easy to set up."

"The most valuable feature of Azure Firewall Manager is the testing and configuration."

"The solution has improved our organization with its firewall."

"FireMon is nice and provides 360-degree user views."

"It provides us with a single pane of glass for our on-prem environment, to see configuration. We have not implemented into the cloud yet. We can search for an object group and see where it lives on any firewall in the enterprise or find security rules, no matter what firewall they're on."

"Vendor agnostic when it comes to integrating with other product."

"The technical support is very good. They've always been helpful."

"In one report, FireMon tells us there are, say, 1,000 rules that can be taken out and it gives us the ability to disable those for a year and to track when we made our changes. After a year, we can go back and eliminate the rules, to bring the configuration down to an almost human-readable level."

"It gives us the ability to go to one place to look for potential firewall rules that are inappropriate, or which don't meet compliance. Instead of manually searching hundreds of firewalls for a policy, we can go to this one location and find the rules which are now out of compliance."

"Compared to other applications, it is user-friendly. The appearance of the menus and titles is clear and they are easy to follow. Of course, it requires some experience through using it, to go through everything, but it is not very difficult. It is an easy application to use."

"I like the Security Manager console where we can see any changes that have been made or pull the results of an assessment and control the policies that we implement."

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Cons

"There should be a simple one-click deployment for a firewall, rather than a set of setup instructions that include steps such as the DNS configuration, et cetera."

"The tool's security features need to improve. It needs also to include a monitoring system for logs. It is also complicated to find a query on the Azure firewall."

"The solution can improve the integration with open-source tools."

"We could do only one-way NAT-ing, where the traffic comes from outside to internal, to Azure, which is fine. However, when we actually do NAT-ed traffic to hit the firewall, that way is not working."

"The price is okay. This said, the solution is certainly expensive in comparison with other cloud services."

"The current health and monitoring of the devices is atrocious... Imagine you have a list of 200 devices, and you can grade each of those devices as either green, yellow, or red. However, there might be three different reasons for you to go to red, or eight different reasons to go to yellow, and all of those things could be combined... Out of all those categories, I only find one or two of them that are, perhaps, pertinent."

"Its reporting can be improved. I am the only one who works a lot with it, and I am having problems in terms of reporting. In the case of Palo Alto, I'm okay with it, but with some of the Cisco devices, such as routers, when I provide the reports to other teams for review, they always say that the hit count is incorrect. So, I was struggling for a long time to work with them. When working with other teams, they have a lot of questions about reporting, such as how it reports, and we are still struggling with that."

"The stability has been fairly decent, but there have been a few issues. My coworker has had some issues in the past where he has had to work with support."

"Some of the core functionality in our environment doesn't seem to work. We will get buggy code releases. They need to work on their Q&A of every code release."

"I ran a report and FireMon suggested that certain tools were not used. When I removed them, while it didn't bring our environment down completely, a lot of our environment started malfunctioning. Our backup system did not work, nor did other things that involve internal and external communication. We are not comfortable with what it did."

"The training for configuring new users or operators is confusing because the UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."

"When it comes to real-time compliance management, something that is missing is alerting on certain, predefined controls. It would be good to have a predefined set of controls which, if not complied with in a newly set up rule, would create an alert for us. That is something that is missing, out-of-the-box."

"When it comes to documentation, they need to start putting together a basic command manual. With Cisco, you can look up a command and it gives you examples of three or four different ways that command can be used. It tells you how to put it into the GUI and the CLI. FireMon does need to start doing that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is certainly expensive in comparison with other cloud services."

"The price of the solution is reasonable but it is reasonable for the features."

"FireMon is very expensive. I think that they charge a premium. In general, they are very pricey. Compared to their competitors, they cost a little more than the other solutions that we evaluated."

"FireMon is cheaper than AlgoSec."

"Pricing is reasonable."

"We pay for it yearly."

"The pricing is very good, very straightforward. It also came in cheaper than AlgoSec and Tufin."

"Regarding additional costs, if you want things like Policy Optimizer, extra features, that's extra."

"This is an expensive solution. The cost of three modules for three years was approximately one million."

"Relative to what it offers, the price is fair."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Manufacturing Company

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Firewall Manager?

The most valuable feature of Azure Firewall Manager is the testing and configuration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Firewall Manager?

The price of the solution is reasonable but it is reasonable for the features.

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What needs improvement with Azure Firewall Manager?

The solution can improve the integration with open-source tools.

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What do you like most about FireMon?

I like the Security Manager console where we can see any changes that have been made or pull the results of an assessment and control the policies that we implement.

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What needs improvement with FireMon?

We've had recurring issues managing FireMon's internal backups. Sometimes, the space allocated for the backup is full, and there is no process where it deletes files that are older than I certain d...

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What is your primary use case for FireMon?

We use Security Manager for firewall changes, monitoring, and audits.

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

Tufin Orchestration Suite vs Azure Firewall Manager

Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 41% of the time

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Compared 37% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Overview

Azure Firewall Manager is a security management service that provides central security policy and route management for cloud-based security perimeters.

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The increasing complexity of networks, driven by the constant influx of new devices, applications, and cloud services, presents a daunting challenge for managing firewall policies and rules. A typical enterprise environment has millions of rules, and just one simple misconfiguration can lead to devastating consequences like compliance violations, outages, and data breaches.

FireMon’s Security Manager is a purpose-built network security policy management (NSPM) platform that automates the management of firewall and cloud security policies to eliminate policy-related risk, accurately and quickly change rules, and meet internal and external compliance requirements.

Reduce Risk Manage risk with real-time visibility and control
Manage Change Avoid misconfigurations, accelerate business, and improve security
Enforce and Maintain Compliance Avoid violations, avoid risk, and avoid fines

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Convey, MGM Resorts International, Southwest Airlines, Alkami, Costco, Aetna, IBM, Verizon, Wells Fargo

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