Azure 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
Score 7.3 out of 10
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Cisco 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.
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Pricing
Azure Firewall
Cisco 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 Firewall
Cisco Firepower 2100 Series
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Azure Firewall
Cisco Firepower 2100 Series
Features
Azure Firewall
Cisco Firepower 2100 Series
Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Azure Firewall
8.0
1 Ratings
8% below category average
Cisco Firepower 2100 Series
8.5
2 Ratings
2% below category average
Identification Technologies
8.01 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Visualization Tools
7.01 Ratings
6.01 Ratings
Content Inspection
7.01 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Policy-based Controls
9.01 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP
8.01 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
Firewall Management Console
9.01 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Reporting and Logging
7.01 Ratings
9.02 Ratings
VPN
8.01 Ratings
10.02 Ratings
High Availability
9.01 Ratings
10.02 Ratings
Stateful Inspection
8.01 Ratings
10.02 Ratings
Proxy Server
00 Ratings
5.02 Ratings
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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.
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.
Career-wise very familiar with the ASAs, you know, the previous gen firewalls, Pyxis, ASAs, the CHA. As far as being intuitive, those seem to be far more intuitive to learn and figure out what the features and changes and config management, all that stuff is. With Firepower, it's a learning curve and I feel like I have quite a bit of experience with it, and so does my team, but feels like it's not as intuitive, and trying to make changes just always seems harder for some reason. We've gone to some Cisco security training and all that, but even then it's just harder to work with. The other big thing is, and this is a big gripe of mine, I suppose, that on any other firewall, when we have various different manufacturers, if you make a change, you know, a simple change object, object name gets changed or object is deleted or whatever the simplest of change is, it gets implemented instantly.
With the Firepower system, you have to deploy the change and it'll take about six or seven minutes for the change to actually take, which is insanely different than any other platform where that change is instantaneous. So let's say if I'm making seven different changes for a troubleshooting job I don't know which one of the seven is gonna fix it, I do one by one by one. I'm like, oh, let me try one change, one second, change, third change, four changes. It's going to take seven deploys. And seven deploys mean it's gonna take an hour of just deploy time. So that is a big, big gripe
There are three main problems with this platform: - short EoL time - it is really missery because this platform was overrated from cisco sales and after shor time they accepted on EoL - sometimes problems with upgrades paths, because of strange behaviour between FXOS and ASA image on the top of it - not good performance when comparing to newer 1k platform
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.
In the days of purchase of Cisco Firepower 2100 series it was new platform and Cisco aimed their sailsmains to force selling this platfrom. It was one of the first platform with FXOS with full support of ASA images. It was cheper then 4k series and would be better than ASA 5500-x series (but regarding all problems with upgrades and EoL , it is not).
