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Azure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAzure Firewall

by Microsoft

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

by Palo Alto Networks

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count29171
Ease of use8.98.6
Ease of setup8.78.4
Quality of support9.18.5
Meets requirements9.29.1
NPS65.38461565.868263
Small Business21.4%18.3%
Mid-Market46.4%45.0%
Enterprise32.1%36.7%
Total page views220864
Total LLM citations3937,427

Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall automatically scales with your usage during peak load or as your business grows, eliminating the need to predict and reserve capacity for peak usage.

Pros

  • Security Protection
  • Helpful
  • Ease of Use

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

Our next-generation firewall classifies all traffic, including encrypted traffic, based on application, application function, user and content. You can create comprehensive, precise security policies, resulting in safe enablement of applications. This lets only authorized users run sanctioned applications, greatly reducing the surgace area of cyber attacks across the organization.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Threat Protection
  • Firewall Efficiency
  • Protection
  • Threat Detection