Azure Firewall

Managed cloud firewall service protecting Azure Virtual Network resources, offered in Basic, Standard and Premium tiers. It is available as a cloud instance. Recorded capabilities include application control, central management console, deep packet inspection and high availability. Its record also notes intrusion detection (ids), intrusion prevention (ips), ssl/tls inspection and stateful inspection. The stated market is Enterprise and small and medium business.

Current Version

Cloud · no version

Product Page

azure.microsoft.com/…/azure-firew…

Market

EnterpriseSMB

Licence

Paid

Price

USD 0.395 / monthly

Record Created

2026-09-19

Last Updated

2026-10-12

Microsoft is the largest security vendor in this index by installed base, and almost none of that was bought deliberately: Microsoft Defender Antivirus is built into Windows and switched on by default, so it protects any machine whose owner has not installed something else. That changes how its results should be read — it is the baseline every other product in this index is implicitly compared against. The paid products are a different thing from the built-in one. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint adds detection and response, threat and vulnerability management and central policy to the same engine; Microsoft Defender for Business is the smaller-organisation edition; Microsoft Defender XDR correlates signals across endpoints, identity, email and cloud apps; and Microsoft Sentinel is the SIEM above them. Microsoft Defender for Individuals, included with Microsoft 365, is the consumer application. Microsoft enters the public test cycles regularly, and its results are among the most consistently available in this index — useful, because for many readers the real question is not which product is best in the abstract but whether a paid product beats the one already installed. Vendor page →

Website

microsoft.com

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Redmond, United States

Year Established

1975

Customers

1.6M organisations

Users

1.4B devices protected

Revenue

$331.8B (2026)