We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Check Point NGFW based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Azure Firewall seems to be a superior solution. All other things being more or less equal, our reviewers found Check Point NGFW to be rather expensive to purchase. Users of Check Point NGFW feel that the stability of the product could be improved. Additionally, some users are not so impressed by the technical support and training that it offers.
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"It's helped us improve our security posture."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"The solution is stable."
"I can easily configure it."
"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."
"My customers cite performance and ease of configuration as two of the solution's most valuable features."
"By deploying Check Point, it has made it easier to manage everything from a single interface. The management dashboard and policies are on its single pane of glass."
"Its most significant strength lies in its superior threat detection engines."
"The separate management feature of Check Point NGFW is very convenient."
"By far, it's the best security solution one can adopt for their organization."
"The Smart Dashboard allows for rule creation and administration and management and is user-friendly."
"There are also additional features, compared to a Layer 4 or Layer 3 firewall, such as AV signatures and devices, which are very helpful for securing the company's network."
"Check Point NGFW has helped the company in the prevention of cyber attacks that could affect operations and slow down production."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"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."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"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."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"The reporting, logging, and monitoring features, as well as the flexibility of the policies, need to be improved."
"The naming in the inline layers and ordered layers needs improvement. It makes things very complicated. I've seen quite a lot of people saying that. For audit policies, it is okay since it's very simple to see. However, this area is for very large organizations, which have too many policies, and they need to share all these policies. For small to medium-sized businesses, they don't need it. Even if somebody has 500 rules, if they try to use it, it can be very confusing."
"It is a bit expensive according to the required blades but it is a platform that is worth having as security in a corporate."
"This solution requires management software that is sold separately; it's actually a different appliance altogether."
"The user interface should be user-friendly"
"Lacks some integration with other solutions."
"They should integrate all blades to use a single policy rather than multiple."
"Including some sort of menu or grouping for VOIP would help the small business area that has limited support."
"The current reporting capability needs to be parsed and edited to be appreciated by leadership."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 277 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8. 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 NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense. See our Azure Firewall vs. Check Point NGFW report.
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Check Point firewall does a deep inspection of packets till Layer 7 and is more compatible with the organizational environment.
The Azure firewall is also a cloud-based security solution that also provides Advance Threat Protection.