We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Juniper SRX Series 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 ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is built automatically."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"There is a lot of flexibility in how you can commit, check, and back out of a configuration."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"The rollback option and Commit Confirmed are great features. They give us the security to change configurations without downtime."
"The most valuable feature is robustness."
"It is a part of the infrastructure when we're selling Juniper. That's what clients are familiar with and that's what they rely on."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"CLI: Junos CLI is very easy to use, and it is also very easy to find back items in the configuration and to change them."
"If we need to define our user system from an anti-spam perspective, we can constantly update the antivirus."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"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."
"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."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"It did not improve our safety because the IDS does not detect some attacks, but our anti-virus software did."
"The user interface is something that Juniper needs to improve."
"JTAC (Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center) is just okay for technical assistance. However, if you are used to Cisco TAC responsiveness, you will need to adjust your expectations with Juniper Networks TAC."
"Ongoing costs are something that we need to manage and make sure that we're getting value on."
"It's a good stable firewall, but it's nowhere near what it needs to be for a next-generation type firewall."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The CPU switch could be improved for a better overall performance of traffic flow."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 87 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Azure Firewall, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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