We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Barracuda CloudGen 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 stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Network filtering is valuable. The scalability capability from the cloud-native service helps us a lot because it simplifies our day-to-day maintenance activity."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the integration into the overall cloud platform."
"The initial setup is straightforward; Azure Firewall does not have a complex implementation process. It is very simple; you just need to enable the service within Azure. It does not require any maintenance because it is managed by Microsoft, that is, it is a fully managed service."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"I like its order management feature. It doesn't have the kind of threat intelligence that Palo Alto has, but the order management makes it much simpler to know the difference."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The UI could be improved."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"The interface could be improved, it's not very user friendly."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"There should be better monitoring and logging. Currently, it is put in Sentinel. It should be more seamless and from the interface."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"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."
"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 interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
Azure Firewall is ranked 16th in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Netgate pfSense, whereas Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Meraki MX. See our Azure Firewall vs. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall report.
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