We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"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."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"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 encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"The main features of the solution are the control of the site-to-site network access and the overall features."
"The ease of use is most valuable. You can quickly train someone who hasn't seen a firewall in life. You can get people up to speed, and in a few months, they are able to manage this product very easily. It is a very user-friendly, scalable, and stable product. Its price is also spot-on."
"The client is easy to use and stable"
"WatchGuard Firebox is easy to configure and has a nice user interface."
"The most valuable feature of WatchGuard Firebox is the VPN. It's easy to connect to the VPN."
"The firewall aspect and the branch office VPNs are the most valuable features... We don't have any issues with it. We don't have to spend a lot of time maintaining it."
"Among the most valuable features is the ease of use — love the interface — of both the web interface and of the WatchGuard System Manager."
"The most valuable feature of WatchGuard Firebox is its ease of use."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"Its customer service could be better."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Its interface could be better."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The analytics are weak."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"There is room for improvement on the education side, regarding what does what, rather than just throwing it at a person and assuming they know everything about it. A lot of times, you have to call WatchGuard support to get the solution that will work, rather than their just having it published so that you can fix the problem on your own."
"Due to their lack of investment in marketing, channel development, and certifications, WatchGuard faces challenges in gaining visibility and market share, especially in regions like Pakistan."
"I would like to see the devices made more flexible by adding modules to increase the ports that we can use."
"Cloud-based central administration of all devices from one point would be nice"
"This solution needs the option to add an external hard drive."
"Once you start getting into proxy actions and setting up: "Okay, cool. Once this rule gets triggered, what actions have to happen?" I do know a few people who use WatchGuard and they still have to get assistance when they look at that. So I would file that as a con for WatchGuard. Proxy actions can be a little bit complicated."
"When working with WatchGuard, specifically in configuring Panda Security on the portal for the first time, it was challenging for me."
"One other shortcoming is that there is no backup for it. We really haven't figured out how we might solve that problem. We may want to put a duplicate in... With WatchGuard, we just have the one box. If that were to fail, we'd probably be really hurting."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 79 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while WatchGuard Firebox is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall TZ, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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