We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Meraki SD-WAN is user friendly."
"The solution operates via zero-touch configuration."
"The solution is pretty reliable."
"The auto VPN feature is important because it automates many tasks, making things simpler and faster. It helps with setting up devices and changing configurations without manual effort."
"It is easy to monitor and manage."
"The Meraki interface is really well driven and very mature."
"It's made managing our client's networks extremely easy, regardless of my location. Being able to hop on my cell phone to see what's happening on a client's network makes everything much more manageable."
"The centralized console manageable from the cloud is one of the advantages."
"The central management for the FortiGate Fortinet Firewall needs improvement. They have the manager to do the essential management for both SD-WAN and for the security policy. They should also improve the SD-WAN function."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The firewall engine is not so strong as of now, in my opinion... My second concern is that, while they have Zero-day vulnerability and anti-malware features, the threat engine needs to be strengthened, its efficiency can be increased."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The price could be better."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"Its interface could be better."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"There is room for improvement in performance and the support language. The support they're providing right now is from a different country, and in our country, there are people—network admins and IT heads—who don't speak English properly. So Barracuda needs to provide support agents who speak additional languages, such as Bangla."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"I'm not too familiar with the Meraki environment, but I suppose more automation is always a good thing."
"Meraki is lagging behind in using a single pipe from service providers. That is, it would be good if they could use both the internet leased line and broadband connectivity."
"A run optimization feature is needed to reduce the bandwidth for any uploaded content."
"When there is an issue, I find it difficult to figure out what is going wrong because the logs do not provide as much information as solutions from HP."
"The granularity could be improved."
"An area for improvement would be to add 4G bonding and allow Meraki devices to support dual 4G SIM cards."
"The integration with other tools must be improved."
"I would like to see more functions added to the next release of Meraki SD-WAN."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 61 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Azure Firewall, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Prisma SD-WAN.
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