We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Sophos UTM 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."The technical support is great."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"It's auto-scalable, which is a great feature."
"Azure's cost-effectiveness is its major advantage."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"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."
"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."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"If a computer does get infected the Sophos appliance lets us know via it's Advanced Threat Protection so we can get a much faster response time."
"Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"The scalability could be better."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"Backup can be improved."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"The pricing could always be better."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"Currently, it only supports IP addresses, so you have to be specific about the IPs that are in your environment."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"Azure has new versions including a premium firewall. But I would like to see them not put the premium features on Azure Firewall Premium alone because it is quite expensive."
"The threat intelligence part could be better. I don't see why our customers have to get an additional solution with Azure Firewall. It would be great if they made it on par with Palo Alto."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"The virus updates will always depend on new viruses that are discovered. Maybe they can send a notification or a reminder for update time."
"It is a little too CPU resource intensive, so we would like to see improvements there."
"The ease of use could be a bit better."
"Sophos UTM's internet security could be better."
"Sophos UTM could improve the way the configuration has to be done. I have to do the configuration through the command line interface but if it could be done through the graphical user interface it would be much better."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Sophos UTM's firewall is a bit weak, and some of its features lack depth compared to other products like F5."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Sophos UTM 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". 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 Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Azure Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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