We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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 most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The technical support is great."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"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 solution is stable."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"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."
"It's possible to sync the Check Point Management with the cloud portal, therefore allowing automated rules to be set in place whenever creating a new VM."
"Now, we can filter which websites users can access and block categories that are a risk. For example, we can block social media and gambling sites. This has helped to decrease the risk of access to malicious content on the internet."
"It is dynamic and agile, and its features and utilities continuously improve and evolve."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"The IPS, application and URL filtering, as well as Identity Awareness, are all very valuable features."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its scalability. You will only have to pay less for scaling up. Its notable benefit is deployment complexity. Regional deployment is simpler compared to on-premise setup."
"This software is great in overall performance since it can locate any trouble across the networking system and provide solutions before it affects workflows."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Its customer service could be better."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"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."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The product needs to improve technical support."
"As an administrator, I can say that among all of the Check Point products I have been working with so far, the Virtual Systems solution is one of the most difficult."
"We miss full blade support for all blades that are compatible with the cluster. Especially notable is the lack of support for Identity Awareness in active standby environments for customers. In our setup, transitioning to Connective clusters would be preferable for maintaining connections during failover situations."
"I would like to see more focus on east-west traffic inspection and AWS."
"What I would like for future updates would be faster updates to apply, and perhaps a greater presence in the local language for the regions of Latin America."
"The stability of the solution could be improved, but this is the problem of all the solutions in the market. This isn't just a problem specific to Check Point."
"The costs are high."
"The complexity to deploy should be decreased."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 121 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Azure Firewall, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Azure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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