We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos UTM 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."Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"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."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"It's a stable solution."
"This is a very stable product."
"The initial setup has been fine."
"Sophos UTM has a good user interface and granular security controls."
"Technical support is very responsive."
"Sophos integrates seamlessly, and we don't even feel it is running in the background."
"We use Sophos UTM as our main firewall with all its features included. Mainly, it controls all of our network perimeter security: firewall, IDS/IPS, and web application firewall (including VoIP)."
"Sophos UTM is very user-friendly and has good integration with other solutions."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"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."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"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."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"The analytics are weak."
"Its interface could be better."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The pricing is an issue."
"Doesn't provide antivirus for individual computers."
"We need a better VPN client for the customers."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
"Sophos should improve its ability to check something like bandwidth consumption for users or something more real-time."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"When we call support, we get put on hold for a long time."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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