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."LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"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."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"We're primarily using Juniper's EPA feature, but not the other things. We use it to manage different points of firewalling of routing."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"Most of our clients use it as a traditional firewall, blocking Layer 3 and Layer 4, blocking by transport."
"Troubleshooting with the solution is quite easy. If you compare the process to, for example, Fortigate, Juniper is much easier."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"The security features and the model collection are the most valuable."
"From a protection perspective, it provides a network perimeter security function for our company."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"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 usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"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."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"When I was going to upgrade the OS, the solution didn't accept certain USB devices."
"I think improvement can be done to the security part, particularly the UDM, and the product should have a user-friendly interface similar to FortiGate. It should have the Azure RBAC in the next release."
"The training videos that are available need to be improved, and made more educative."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"In the next release, I would like to have a better web interface. It needs to be more user-friendly. Right now, you can only access many features through the console."
"To compare with Fortinet, Juniper needs to improve their security features."
"It does have its nuances in terms of deployment. There are always areas to make something easier or more intuitive or make the system auto-negotiate more with existing hardware."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 18th in Firewalls with 86 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, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure 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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