We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"Azure Firewall is a cloud-native solution that removes the pain of load balancers."
"I think that one of the best features is definitely the premium version, along with the IDPs in terms of the intrusion detection and prevention system."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"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."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"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 needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"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."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"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."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
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Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". 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 McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with .
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