We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall 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 security fabric is excellent."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"It's very easy to configure."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The solution can scale well."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"If you have a solution that is creating a script and you need to deploy many implementations, you can create a script in the device and it will be the same for all. After that, you just have to do the fine tuning."
"The most valuables feature of this product are given by the comprehensive VPN solutions it offers and its tools for troubleshooting and debugging."
"We have multiple secure internal networks linked with our plants. We are from a oil company, so we have multiple plant areas which need to have restricted network access. Therefore, we are using it for restricting access to the plant area."
"The clusters in data centers are great."
"It's got the capabilities of amassing a lot of throughput with remote access and VPNs."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"I am used to the ASA syntax, therefore it is quite easy to make up new rules. I have found that DNS doctoring rules are useful."
"The best features are stability and scalability."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"Lacks training for new features."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"Its interface could be better."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"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."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"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 biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"I would like more features in conjunction with other solutions, like Fortinet."
"Cisco is still catching up with its Firepower Next-Generation firewalls."
"Tech support could not answer all of our questions. I had to do research on the web to solve my issues."
"An area of improvement for this solution is the console visualization."
"Make the IPS baked-in."
"Bandwidth allocation needs improvement."
"The dashboard can be improved."
"I would like to see improvement when you create policies on Snort 3 IPS on Cisco Firepower. On Snort 2, it was more like a UI page where you had some multiple choices where you could tweak your config. On Snort 3, the idea is more to build some rules on the text file or JSON file, then push it. So, I would like to see a lot of improvements here."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Firewall 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 Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Cisco Secure Firewall report.
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