We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Cisco IOS Security 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."FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"The technical support is great."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"Network filtering is valuable. The scalability capability from the cloud-native service helps us a lot because it simplifies our day-to-day maintenance activity."
"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."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"The product has valuable features for business intelligence."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable features are DNS service and shell self-service within a network."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. The nice thing with the bigger vendors is that they're very good at scale."
"Cisco products are very secure and integrate easily with other devices."
"I'm able to transfer data over internet network security. With the GRE I'm able to transfer data within one bunch to another bunch in a public way, like the internet. The communication is encrypted and is private. It gives me added privacy."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"You can scale it when you need to."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"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."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"Azure Firewall has limited visibility for IDPS, no TLS inspection, no app ID, no user ID, no content ID, no device ID. There is no antivirus or anti-spyware. Azure Firewall doesn't scan traffic for malware unless it triggers an IDPS signature. There is no sandbox or machine learning functionality, meaning we are not protected from Zero-day threats. There is no DNS security and limited web categories."
"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 the usual bugs that are inherent to some software upgrades. Sometimes this provides some unexpected issues, however, it happens with all brands all the time."
"We faced significant challenges related to licensing issues, particularly when licenses expire."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"I would like to see much more embedded security that works and that isn't a bolt-on."
"Cisco IOS Security could improve its security features. There are competitors that have some additional security features, such as Fortinet FortiGate. Additionally, there should be better synchronization with Cisco IOS Security and other vendors, and improved AI features would be beneficial."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"The configuration should be easier in the solution."
"The initial setup is complicated."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Cisco IOS Security is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 47 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Cisco IOS Security is rated 8.0. 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 Cisco IOS Security writes "User-friendly and excels in documentation, making it easier to resolve issues". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Netgate pfSense, whereas Cisco IOS Security is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Meraki MX, Fortinet FortiOS, Netgate pfSense and OPNsense. See our Azure Firewall vs. Cisco IOS Security report.
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