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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Firewall

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AAzure Firewall is a cloud-native, intelligent network firewall security service that offers threat protection for Azure cloud workloads. It is a fully stateful firewall as a service, featuring built-in high availability and unlimited cloud scalability.

    $0.40

    per deployment hour $0.065 per GB processed

    Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco offers the Firepower 2100 Series NGFW, designed to allow businesses to gain resiliency through superior security with sustained performance. The Firepower 2100 Series has a dual multicore CPU architecture that optimizes firewall, cryptographic, and threat inspection functions simultaneously, to achieve security doesn’t come at the expense of network performance.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure FirewallCisco Firepower 2100 Series
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $0.395
    per deployment hour $0.065 per GB processed
    Standard
    $1.25
    per deployment hour $0.016 per GB processed
    Premium
    $1.75
    per deployment hour $0.016 per GB processed
    Firepower 2100
    3,000-20,000
    per appliance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure FirewallCisco Firepower 2100 Series
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Azure FirewallCisco Firepower 2100 Series
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Azure Firewall and Cisco Firepower 2100 Series
    Feature
    Azure Firewall
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Cisco Firepower 2100 Series
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Identification Technologies8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Visualization Tools7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection7.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls9.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP8.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console9.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging7.01 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    VPN8.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    High Availability9.01 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure FirewallCisco Firepower 2100 Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure FirewallCisco Firepower 2100 Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure Firewall is well suited for most mid sized and large sized companies that deal with thousands of users within multiple environments. Azure Firewall allows you to protect business assets by preventing malicious attacks from entering the network. Azure Firewall would be less suited for a small company that does not use a vpn or have users outside of the office as something smaller would be more appropriate.
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    Cisco
    The Cisco [Firepower] 2100 [Series] is an easy sell for anyone looking. You already know Cisco excels in the security department, but now that firepower lives right on the box and inline with the rest of the firewall data flow you can save yourself a lot of time and headaches. Unless you cant quite afford Cisco's 2100 line, there's not much reason to go with the competition.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Azure Fire wall is easy to use
    • Azure fire wall is easy to set up
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    Cisco
    • For us, to power the whole system does scaling quite a bit. So we can definitely have a lot of room to grow if needed. The device can support a lot of way more than we need right now, but in the future, if we need more it seems to be a big pro of that. Also the support of Cisco, knowing that it's backed by Cisco definitely is good. You guys are the largest players in the market
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Azure Fire wall pricing may not always be competitive
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    Cisco
    • Cisco patches bugs quickly but patches are slow to install and reboot
    • Smart licensing is getting better but still can be troublesome
    • Some weird visual interface glitches that require clicking the same options a few extra times
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure Firewall is a very competitive product that exceeds or meets the competitions offerings and is able to effectively manage a company network and securely lock down the domain environment with seamless integration and easy to use tools while offering great support assistance. We selected Azure Firewall because the customer service that comes with the product is second to none and allows us to keep maximum uptime to protect our assets.
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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Azure Firewall decreased our overhead by over 7%
    • Azure fire wall has increased efficiency within the security department
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    Cisco
    • It's keeping threats out like a firewall should. Definitely cost wise it is at a higher cost center than other alternatives. Especially when it comes to licensing. Cisco is generally the higher, for perhaps, definitely for good reason, right? I mean, definitely positive impact as far as working as it should that's at cost.
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