# Azure Firewall Manager Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/network-security-policy-management-nspm) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 18 ## About Azure Firewall Manager Azure Firewall Manager is a centralized security management service that enables organizations to define, deploy, and manage network security policies across multiple Azure Firewall instances spanning various regions and subscriptions. By providing a unified control plane, it simplifies the administration of security perimeters in cloud environments, ensuring consistent policy enforcement and streamlined operations. Key Features and Functionality: - Centralized Deployment and Configuration: Manage multiple Azure Firewall instances from a single interface, facilitating consistent policy application across diverse network architectures. - Hierarchical Policy Management: Establish global security policies for organization-wide enforcement while allowing local policies for specific teams or departments, balancing centralized control with operational flexibility. - Integration with Security-as-a-Service Providers: Enhance network protection by integrating with third-party SECaaS solutions, offering advanced security features for both virtual network and branch internet connections. - Automated Route Management: Simplify traffic routing to secured virtual hubs without manual configuration of user-defined routes, ensuring efficient and secure traffic flow. - Comprehensive Security and Compliance: Leverage Microsoft's extensive investment in cybersecurity research and development, benefiting from built-in security features and compliance certifications. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Azure Firewall Manager addresses the complexity of managing multiple firewall instances across expansive cloud environments. By centralizing security policy and route management, it ensures consistent enforcement of security measures, reduces administrative overhead, and enhances the organization's overall security posture. This centralized approach allows IT teams to respond swiftly to threats, maintain compliance, and efficiently manage network security at scale. ## Azure Firewall Manager Reviews ### 1. Security firewall **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammed A. | Information Technology Security Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** It has the option to maintain Central Azure Firewall deployment and configuration. Also it offers DDOS protection. Also it can be integrated with 3rd party SAAS service. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** Sometimes it's difficult to understand or lacks guidance to implement the changes. If this is straightforward forward, it becomes easier. Also, something terraform support will be good to have within azure. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a cloud prem solutioning for the cloud. It's doing its job ideally instead of relying on 3rd party firewalls. It has enormous benefits than solutions and is ideally of great use. ### 2. Azure Firewall manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shrikant S. | Senior Specialist Network & Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** The Dashboard and the features provide the easy-to-understand the think and also help us to secure the infrastructure. Also, the pricing is affordable along with tech support. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** As of now, I believe the NAT means in Azure only one way NAT feature is available. I believe that needs to be upgraded. Apart from this all seems to be good. :) **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Firewall policy, IPSEC VPN tunnels, IPS, and IDS also access the dashboard from the centralized location or through the web. In my last company, we were using Azure for some data-based and web servers. ### 3. Central consilole to manage all your azure cloud based forewall **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhupender Singh R. | Security Operations Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** A centralised consol that can help administrator to push firewall policy across the azure native firewalls. It aids adminstrator to simultaneously manage multiple firewalls. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** Single point of failure, if a centralised console breaks down there is no way to recover it quite soon and we have to independently manage all other firewalls in the cloud **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure firewall manager have granular policy for the Ddos protection and holistic waf simgnature that can help an organisation to protect them against moder day attacks ### 4. Azure Firewall Manager - Innovative Azure Service to Manage Multiple Azure Firewall Instance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush K. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** In Cloud security, it's important to protect your resources. There will be good chances to implement multiple instances of Azure Firewall. At the same time, you need to sync all of the instances. Azure Firewall is the best solution for you. I like the centralized solution feature of this azure service. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** As such, there is no reason to dislike Azure Firewall Manager. However, still, their complexity sometimes creates issues. A firewall is itself a complex service. So, we need to consider Azure Firewall Manager must be a little complex. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure firewall Manager is a centralized service to manage multiple Azure Firewalls. The policy is the fundamental building block of Azure Firewall Manager. It manages the multiple instances of the Azure firewall across subscriptions and regions. ### 5. If you are using azure cloud I recommend azure firewall **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prashant S. | Senior Subject Matter Expert, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** Policy writing on firewall in like standard box and not like other cloud firewall which is very buggy. Azure has did research before presenting this box to customer. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** It can implore with time and intigrate more features like we have in present next generation firewalls from othe leading vendors of firewall. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I always like to stick to one vendor while designing the solution, it's easy to convince my customer who will use Azure cloud. ### 6. Best central security policy and round management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** komal k. | Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** It's interface, easy and fast to use, it makes much easier to change the configurations. Centralised VPN protection, overall the best service to trust on **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** Mostly the cost part as it's costing high compared to others and sometimes the performance issues **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Congratulations and reviews of firewall policies as per the customer demand ### 7. Security in the Azure **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nisar S. | Presales - Solution Architect Digital Workspace, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** It is a security management service that provides holistic security, emerging with the innovation to integrate with on-prem security solutions it provides on the overall security posture of the enterprise network. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** Dashboards need improvements; however, if they seamlessly fit with Azure native monitoring for advanced monitoring and reporting, retention for historical reporting must be enhanced. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** The solution is protecting cloud workload from attack surface; enterprise data is securely getting delivered, and it does help us to design a compliant environment for customer applications. ### 8. Azure firewall offers 360 degree protection. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** Personally I liked the DDoS protection plan and hierarchical policies. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** For me i don't think there is no feature that requires tuning. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed centralized administration of configurations which was solved by azure firewall managers Central Azure Firewall deployment and configuration. ### 9. Yes need to implement the strong security gateway in perimeter firewall. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dileepa M N. | Security Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** Good things, need to understand the string technical skills **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** Bad things, remove the unnne'cccccccccry works. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need to understand the exact business security things, and allow the right client requests. ### 10. Best protector **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karthik U. | Investment Coach, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** It's so easy and fast to add a VPN to our network to safeguard our most sensitive information from spyware **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** It will be good if we get a Data factory **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It protects the sensitive data ### 11. Easy to understand and all required options are available **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** It is a centralized management console for policy, route etc **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** Few issue are there like logging, DDOS, bulk push etc **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manageability become easy, reduced human errors ### 12. Very intuitive panel, easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raúl R. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** The Interface, the Firewall Manager is easy to set up the rules. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** The price, is too high compared with the features **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a lot of attacks over internet, specially the apps or systems that have a lot of traffic ### 13. Great tool to manage firewalls **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** Easy to use, great capabilities, great Ui experience **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** Required to have some prior knowledge to use the tool **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Best suited with cloud suite, help us manage firewalls devices ### 14. Makes it easy to do policies and deployment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piet v. | Senior Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** It makes it much easier to control and change the configurations. It's also cool to have it integrate quite easy into other 3rd party services. Easy to do routes too. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** There seems to be some delay when pushing out items. Was told this will get fixed soon. I would also like to see more from this tool from where it possibly integrates to other areas. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's easier to see when things are missing in the config or where adding on features would help. This allows us to add more onto 1 element. ### 15. Provider for the best central security policy and route management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ARJUN J. | Full Stack Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** The most important component is the web firewall. It is not difficult to introduce and doesn't need any modules for your program. This was my main goal. This cost is great, despite the fact that I am as yet assessing whether it will be better by removing a from the-crate arrangement or rather carry out something outsider. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** There ought to be a basic a single tick sending for a firewall, rather than a bunch of arrangement guidelines that incorporate advances like the DNS design. Microsoft couldn't completely take care of the issue with email phishing and spamming. Regardless of whatever endpoint security arrangement you acquire from an outsider, it requires steady AI and learning. This is the sort of thing that is missing, and it is one spot where you are compelled to utilize an outsider. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this tool to manage the firewall inbound securities as well as outbound securities. Our product is based on SaaS model and we manage the security policies to restrict the unauthorised usage of the product when it is under development by setting up the firewall security policies with adding the rules to authorise the required IP's. ### 16. Excellent Firewall **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** Centralized Virtual Network provide protection **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** I believe the logs should be easy to read and understand **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Preventing Malicious attack internal and external ### 17. Best security for your cloud services. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep F. | L2 System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** For Azure cloud, this is the best security that we can use to protect cloud data. This is an amazing solution by Microsoft and as engineers, we are using this for more than 2 years now. This offer very special kind of services to cloud data protection. it offers redundancy and high availability on a global scale. This is the best firewall solution with all the feathers like monitoring, logging, and analytic part. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** This has only one dislike for me but overall this is the best solution for cloud data. only issue i faced was some performance issue region-wise. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Firewall Manager:** Every company which is using the cloud with sensitive information should have this solution. Also, the cost is normal. **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Setup and review Firewall policies and configure policies according to user requirements. ### 18. Best Secured virtual hub for your orgnization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chels L. | Virtual Reality Specialist ( Virtual Reality | Augmented Reality | Mixed Reality ), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Firewall Manager?** We use Firewall Manager to centrally manage Firewall across multiple secured virtual hubs and Easily route traffic to the secured hub for filtering and logging without manually setting up. Another benefit would be that Azure Firewall can be used to inter integrate as (SECaaS) provider. we use multiple regions on the azure management server so we can suite each IT members with related task. **What do you dislike about Azure Firewall Manager?** we can't have more than one virtual hub per region. so adding extra would be great for multi firewall **Recommendations to others considering Azure Firewall Manager:** Highly recommend for any organization who are looking secure Firewall Manager **What problems is Azure Firewall Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployment and Settings in Central Azure Firewall Central management of routes Integrated in security for third parties ## Azure Firewall Manager Discussions - [Which two types of resources can be protected by using Azure firewall?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-two-types-of-resources-can-be-protected-by-using-azure-firewall) - [What does Azure firewall protect?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/azure-firewall-manager-what-does-azure-firewall-protect) - [What is the difference between Azure firewall and NSG?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-difference-between-azure-firewall-and-nsg) - [View Azure Firewall Manager pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-firewall-manager/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+22%3A45%3A08+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7b4e8089-9cb3-4338-b326-8be003b4eaf4&secure%5Btoken%5D=fb208fca2292a0d31667b98986ecb37da6f0f24d7bd21ecdc991fb24ad465140&format=llm_user) ## Azure Firewall Manager Features **Network Maintenance** - Policy Optimization - Risk Analysis - Auditing **Network Management** - Network Mapping - Compliance - Reporting - Console **Network Monitoring** - Network Monitoring - Configuration Monitoring - Change Management ## Top Azure Firewall Manager Alternatives - [SolarWinds Observability](https://www.g2.com/products/solarwinds-worldwide-llc-solarwinds-observability/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (793 reviews) - [AlgoSec Horizon](https://www.g2.com/products/algosec-horizon/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (215 reviews) - [Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security)](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-cloud-firewall-formerly-cloudguard-network-security/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (205 reviews)