We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"It is a safe product."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"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."
"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."
"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 should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"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."
"I can easily configure it."
"The IPS system is the best in the field."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"I have found the threat profile feature valuable."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"They can improve the pricing of Azure Firewall."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"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."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"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."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"The URL Filtering module needs to have more categories added to it."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
"The reporting functionality in GlobalProtect needs to be improved."
"The password function of the solution could be improved. Additionally, some of the processes take too long to complete."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"Palo Alto has many other products. It would be nice for these products to be centralized under one tool"
"The tool needs to improve integration with more products from other vendors. I would like the product to add threat intelligence features as well."
"The solution needs a series of OS changes."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Azure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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