We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and OPNsense 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."Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"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."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"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."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"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."
"It is a very good solution. I like the dashboard. I can see what is going on and manage it as I like it."
"It's more secure and more reliable."
"I feel that its valuable features are that it is simple and free."
"It has an open license. It works very well, and there is an update every month."
"The initial setup is easy. It only takes 15-30 minutes to deploy."
"The most valuable features are reporting, the Sensei plugin, and firewall capabilities."
"OPNsense is highly stable."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"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."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"Given that OPNsense plays a pivotal role as a firewall, safeguarding against various threats, having a reliable backup ensures uninterrupted protection even if unforeseen events impact the primary virtual machine."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"When using the solution at the beginning was difficult. There was a steep learning curve."
"You will need additional training before you can actually start to use it."
"I think the most important thing is that it should be easily accessible, but currently, that doesn't seem to be the case. We need a hardware platform that's based on common standards and open computing principles, which would be like a commodity and benefit us greatly."
"The reporting part could be better."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while OPNsense 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 OPNsense writes "Robust network security and management offering a user-friendly interface, open-source flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, with challenges regarding initial setup and the absence of official support". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall and Meraki MX, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. OPNsense report.
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