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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

Azure Firewall is easy to set up and has default WAF enabled. I have multiple client environments where I have set up the Azure Firewall and till now I got no issues in them. It's a next level security service that secures the azure environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

We can not whitelist FQDN and domain names in azure Firewall. This is the only drawback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Firewall keeps the environment safe and secure from external attacks. It is easy to set up and maintain. We can directly map Azure resources with Azure Firewall Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Azure Firewall?

Azure Firewall automatically scales with your usage during peak load or as your business grows, eliminating the need to predict and reserve capacity for peak usage.

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Azure Firewall automatically scales with your usage during peak load or as your business grows, eliminating the need to predict and reserve capacity for peak usage.


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Athithanambi A.
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Athithanambi A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Very good gateway for the traffice"
Esay to configure with hub and spoke model.
Sumit P.
SP
Sumit P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure Firewall is very user friendly and cost efficient"
Azure Firewall is used to protect company assets by securing our network and blocking malicious traffic from entering our closed network
Shekh A.
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Shekh A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Secure your business"
WAF is the best thing happened to AZURE FIREWALL helps in preventing SQL INJECTION and cross site scripting.
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Engineer - System &amp; Security
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Security?

Microsoft provides security for endpoints , Office 365 apps , Servers etc. Their providing zero hour prevention to all of the endpoint which are configured with Microsoft endpoint security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Security?

the deployment process is very complex when configuring security for IOS device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 provide high level security for Microsoft Application including emails , sharepoint and one drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

It is designed specifically for the Azure cloud environment, it's offering a seamless and integrated solution for securing resources within Azure. It can scale horizontally to accommodate increasing network traffic, making it suitable for small and large deployments. Users can configure Azure Firewall to use threat intelligence feeds, enhancing security by blocking traffic to and from known malicious IP addresses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

It provides a comprehensive set of features, organizations with highly specialized or unique requirements may find certain customization limitations. It's crucial to assess whether the service meets specific customization needs. Depending on the level of traffic and specific configurations, the costs associated with Azure Firewall usage can accumulate. Cost is depends on how many services accessed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Firewall addresses key challenges in cloud network security, benefiting me by providing centralized security management, controlling outbound traffic, filtering based on applications and threat intelligence, ensuring high availability, and seamlessly integrating with Azure services. This results in improved security, compliance, and operational efficiency for organizations leveraging Azure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Athithanambi A.
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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

Esay to configure with hub and spoke model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

No dislike, coset is more to use in small company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using the landing zone and it is a gate for the trafiice from on prem to azure and azure to onn prem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sneha C.
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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

It helped me alot in my work and made easier to investigate the issue from basics.

After learning this, I found that day today useful thing. Firewall is everywhere present, that may cause blocking in your things from downloading or network as well. After learning this you will get to know how to avoid these issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

While learning it feels some clumsy. But if you keep patience, you will learn it in very good way. Time taking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

As stated above I'm working in a project where firewall is our door for daily work. So it helped me alot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shekh A.
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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

WAF is the best thing happened to AZURE FIREWALL helps in preventing SQL INJECTION and cross site scripting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

Configuring the Azure Firewall is a bit tricky for new comers, they should have made it easy or provided a run book and some kind of instruction manual for first time users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were getting lots of traffic from unknown sources and sometimes it would make our job tougher and most of our time went on resolving such issues but upon implementing azure firewall things have changed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumit P.
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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

Azure Firewall is used to protect company assets by securing our network and blocking malicious traffic from entering our closed network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

The total number of active connections per virtual machine is 250k. The total limit per firewall is the virtual machine connection limit (250k) x the number of virtual machines in the firewall backend pool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Firewall is used to protect company assets by securing our network and blocking malicious traffic from entering our closed network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Uday P.
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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

It is making safer to the cloud storage and is extensively useful. When user logs into the account then it will provides the security of the cloud account and user could feels that he is prevented from the threat as well. Implementation is extensively easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

I have not focused on the dislikes of Azure Firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

When we had a threat implementation wanted we have used the Azure firewall to prevent threat protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aakash N.
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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

This is so handy to operate and most importantly it is very secure and easy to apply, moreover it provide a very fast and reliable customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

Nothing is there that is considered to be a con. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Securing the resources present on the cloud (azure portal) of our client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sayantica G.
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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

It is for all business purpose regarding small environment, medium or large. It has very good threat intelligance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

It is cloud based. If it is also in on premise version or self managed data privacy ,then helpfull. For small entity you cant get all feature enble with basic price range. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its Microsoft data mining to use Threat Intelligent for Anti-malware, IPS ,web filtering is good for environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prashant T.
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What do you like best about Azure Firewall?

Azure Firewall is kind of Inbound and outbound security rules applied for an Network for communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Firewall?

Nothing, the overall Azure FW is good service that is used for security level projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Firewall solving and how is that benefiting you?

Implementation time when we apply firewall rules based on the inbound and outbound traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.