We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Fortinet FortiOS 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 most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The solution can autoscale."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"The solution is stable."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"It's helped us improve our security posture."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"For ten to 12 years it has been quite secure."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"The information security features are the most valuable."
"The initial setup is easy. It's the easiest firewall installation process on the market. I work with three or four other products and this one is the easiest."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"It is more robust than SonicWall, particularly on the VPN from site to site."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"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."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"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."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"There are some features for FortiGate using FortiOS that can only be enabled via a command line. These aren't very advanced features they have been part of FortiOS for quite some time but they still aren't accessible from the graphical user interface. It makes it a little bit harder than it should be for us to manage the solution. That's my main concern with the user interface. Another concern we have is some elements for the user interface, if they're not properly configured, it could lead to hardware and performance degradation."
"While it is a solid solution, there are some product limitations which exclude it from deployment in some situations."
"There are some issues with the performance. We also had some issues while updating the firmware."
"It could more scalable for the lower end users."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Fortinet FortiOS 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 Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". 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 Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Azure Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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