Azure Firewall vs Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Likelihood to Recommend

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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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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Feature Rating Comparison

Azure Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Pros

Azure Fire wall is easy to use
Azure fire wall is easy to set up

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Nice HTML5 web interface instead of the old java client
Many added features over the ASA
Firepower built in and faster than before

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Cons

Azure Fire wall pricing may not always be competitive

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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

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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Return on Investment

Azure Firewall decreased our overhead by over 7%
Azure fire wall has increased efficiency within the security department

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Simplifying our lives by reducing our time spent in a console
Being comfortable knowing the full might of Cisco is safeguarding your network
A good excuse to bump up the IT budget in the next fiscal year!

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Azure Firewall Editions & Modules

Edition

Deployment	$1.25¹
Data Processing	$.016²

Per Deployment Hour
Per GB Processed

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Editions & Modules

Edition

Firepower 2100	3,000-20,000¹

per appliance

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Rating Summary

Azure Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Azure Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Feature Rating Comparison

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Pros

Azure Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Cons

Azure Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Alternatives Considered

Azure Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Return on Investment

Azure Firewall

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Azure Firewall Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Cisco Firepower 2100 Series Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

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