We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall 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 security fabric is excellent."
"It is very flexible to use."
"It can expand easily."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"One of the best features is that it natively integrates with Azure Services and tools. When you have a third-party offering, that is not the case. But Azure Firewall provides a comprehensive and seamless security solution for your Azure resources."
"All its features are good. That's why we recommend it."
"Great security and connectivity."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The solution can autoscale."
"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 solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Forcepoint is a complete package because it has network and systems applications. Other firewalls are only for the network."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"They offer templates that provide detailed reports categorized by user, device, and internal network access."
"The most valuable feature is the console management."
"Technical support has been quite helpful in the past."
"One of the most valuable features is having the ability to cluster multiple firewalls even if they are different versions."
"The support is great. They also have very good categorization. It's very good. It captures a lot of threats."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The scalability could be better."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"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."
"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 reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"They should have a GUI on the product itself, not a separate management tool to be used on the management server or on a server to be used to manage the file. It should be all in one device. The device should be controlled through its own GUI. They also have to improve the learning center and the documents as the documents don't really help."
"The optimization is not really ready. If you want very good optimization, you have to add it to the network."
"When it comes to a complex deployment, the rules, firewall features, SD-WAN core features, and auto-scaling can cause the device to be not quite stable."
"The solution needs to add an antivirus profile and anti-spyware profile, not just policies and VPN."
"Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall could change its interface, allowing standard or direct connect modes to be configured."
"The security features need to be improved."
"Its management center should be easier to use. The management interface of Forcepoint is unique and a little bit different from some of the firewall solutions on which people might have worked before. Sometimes, the customers say that it is not very friendly, and we help them with how to use this management interface. It just takes a little bit of time, and after some time, it gets easy to manage or use. It is quite similar to Palo Alto, Fortinet, and legacy Juniper solutions. Their support should be faster. We have received complaints that they are not responding fast, which is not good for the vendor and us."
"They need to increase the local support here. There are also some bugs or fixes on which they need to work. They very well know about these bugs. In terms of licensing, I would like them to either increase the number of features in a single license or make licensing more flexible."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 41 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is rated 7.6. 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 Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall writes "Provides decent protection for the LAN but complicated interface". 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 Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Check Point NGFW, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Sourcefire SNORT. See our Azure Firewall vs. Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall report.
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