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Aditya T.
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

It is a cloud based firewall offering that works for both on-premise and cloud hosted web applications. It is easy to manage, configurable, and highly extensible. As it works as a SaaS, it is more economical than having on premise firewall set-up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

I feel the configurational capabilities could have been improved. The costing is also a bit high. Also there is lack of expertise in the market who own this knowledge properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. Cloud based firewall offering is easy to manage.

2. Solving complex security requirements of clients.

3. It's more economical as it works as a SaaS.

4. Easy to extend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Microsoft
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1975
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$204,090
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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately

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Recent Azure Web Application Firewall Reviews

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Verified UserEnterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure Web application firewall is best firewall to protect application from hacker."
The rule set of firewall is very good. Most of the vulnerabilities have been detected this firewall. Firewall configuration is very easy.
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parth k.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Costly But Best In Class"
The different modes and different SKUs available to choose from as per the requirements. Ability to add Custom Rules along with built-in OWASP rules.
Robert K.
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Robert K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Azure Web Application Firewall"
It will detect the top 10 OWASP web application vulnerabilities in your web application and protect against those. if you want to learn more about ...
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Praveen J.
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Project Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Microsoft Security?

Microsoft's Windows firewall has a built-in feature that provides network protection by monitoring and controlling incoming and outgoing network traffic, which helps in protecting unauthorized access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Security?

The least helpful about Microsoft security is the Delayed update for older Windows versions, Where older versions will receive updates significantly less frequently or for a limited period. Which could lead to more vulnerable in emerging threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Microsoft Security helps solve business needs like Protecting against Malware and Cyber Threats, Endpoint security, Phishing and email security, and Identity and Access Management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PK
Cloud Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

The different modes and different SKUs available to choose from as per the requirements.

Ability to add Custom Rules along with built-in OWASP rules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Pricing is a bit complex and a little bit costly when going for the v2 SKU. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We had a Business requirement to allow some sites(URIs) to be accessible from specific IP address range and if the same URI had a certain keyword it could be accessible over the internet(everyone) which is solved by the use of custom rules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert K.
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

It will detect the top 10 OWASP web application vulnerabilities in your web application and protect against those. if you want to learn more about OWASP (please use Burp Suite tool for testing a website but use only the applications which are recommended by the government or your organization or your teacher and do not try this tools experimentation on some private or govt websites(it is very illegal) and Use OWASP Juice Shop for this testing purpose as well). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Nothing much but it needs to update some major unknown vulnerabilities for users to test other than OWASP top 10. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Mainly web application security testing things and to come across it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amrender S.
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Associate production support
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Azure provide a secure environment for security of the cloud and allow you to use azure services with out any risk involved related to recently security risks arised or related to log4j Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Azure security should work on provide a better architecture representation on how they are dealing with the vulnerability arising in the cloud security recently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helping securing from web hackers techniques being used such as security vulnerabilities and injection in sql or cross site scripting. It also helps in blocking malicious software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Deependra S.
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DevOps Engineer
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

I've been using AWS for a while but the user interface of azure web application firewall is somewhat easier to use than AWS and it's a game changing point in terms of market capturing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

I do not dislike anything so far and i am still using it so i will update if i find anything that changes my opinion about azure web application firewall. Thank you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I've been using a server which sends and receives more than a million pictures a day and it had become such a problem for me to keep an eye on all the threshold activities but azure web application firewall made it so much easier for me to keep an eye on my server's security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sakshi A.
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Its capability of detecting and alerting security administrators about most common and Moder types of cyberattacks which helps organization in building in secure architectecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

It socnsole is not that much user friendly as is it not mean for beginners to go and start with everyone has to have a basic understanding of its sévices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is helping organization startup to build secure infrastructure or making their infrastructure secure at a pay as you go model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sourabh S.
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Rule set is the wonderful feature for web application firewall. Support is really commendable. Rule set is best thing. best in class among competitors. Best among them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

nothing is bad about azure web application firewall No everything looks good to me. By giving more documentation and examples about it. I want to improve the security of the application to enhance multifold. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

addition of security layer to your web application. I security of my applicaton . Yes now I need not worry about my security of application. Not traced it yet but it seems promising. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aditya S.
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Protecting multiple web application from web vulnerabilities and attacks. also the custom policies and its priority helps a lot in daily client requirements which differ client by client. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

The management can be improved more. The support for proxy forward could improve. There is no annotations for waf rule, makes it to hard to manage. Some features hard to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

More focus on security in application gateway in order to prevent from attacks. Reduced false positive and added security rules. Incresed limits for request body and file size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in E-Learning
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

It is simple to set up and works flawlessly because it is cloud-based. The firewall rule set is excellent. It is fairly simple to configure a firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Nothing, in fact, I enjoy everything since it has excellent alternatives for protecting my web applications over the internet. But I think it could be a little bit tough for users coming from a non-technical backgrounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I found that the firewall detects the majority of serious flaws. It will guard against SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and other threats. Attack. Because the application side is more safe with the Firewall, we solve this by providing some outbound security to our blockchain-based critical-web-application. We profited from the simplicity and the automatic untrusted IP ban functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DM
Quality Assurance Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Azure Web Application Firewall?

Products a easy to use but depends on the workload not all workloads works fine with the WAF, specially if there are old workloads <10y old , test it first and it is an easy setup and tuning could be harder depends on the needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Web Application Firewall?

As of now only one thing i dislike about the product which is not suitable for ipv6. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Using this product we are solving basically two problem like improve compliance & risk management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.