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.
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The solution is stable."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The initial setup is straightforward; Azure Firewall does not have a complex implementation process. It is very simple; you just need to enable the service within Azure. It does not require any maintenance because it is managed by Microsoft, that is, it is a fully managed service."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"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."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"We have all the features we want or need in this appliance. It's been good so far."
"The solution can scale."
"I like the Next-Generation Firewall."
"The console or the single interface on the blades is most valuable."
"Check Point has an awesome price-to-benefit ratio, netting you an awesome throughput of IDS/IPS capability compared to Palo Alto, Cisco, and so on."
"Log storage gives us insights when required."
"I use it as well as a VM. We use it a lot because we have all fiber optic connections, so we could use almost all of that. The federation is beautiful because I can transfer all traffic to my main site where I can use just one link to the internet, and I can use it as a proxy as well. It is good to keep control and security."
"I rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The scalability could be better."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"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 should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"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."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"The only thing that we've seen is instances where console and administrative interfaces get locked up or freeze, and we have to get the machine rebooted."
"The documentation could be better."
"The support team should be faster."
"Check Point is not a cheap solution and it's always painful to see exactly how much we need to spend on this."
"You need to merge all the old consoles into one new one and make the interface more convenient for the novice administrator."
"Check Point could do better to include acceleration technologies like SD-WAN in an integrated or embedded way to provide these new features that Check Point never had and is of great importance in the market."
"Sometimes there are security bugs, which is frustrating."
"It requires enhanced automation tools for regulatory compliance to ease the burden of compliance reporting and auditing."
Azure Firewall is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 9 reviews while Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 104 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.0, while Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Meets industry-level standards and compliance requirements, supports native load balances, and is comparably priced". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Robust control and security that enables a comprehensive application management". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Netgate pfSense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall 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.