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."All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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 antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"We find all of the features valuable because together they fit the needs of our customers."
"Sophos UTM provides security for our network here and access through a VPN connection for our remote users. It also offers the flexibility to create different tools for accessibility."
"Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place."
"This is a very stable product."
"It is easy to manage."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Performance and technical support are the main issues with this solution."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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 experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"Sophos UTM's internet security could be better."
"VPN needs IKEv2, but it’s in the roadmap. Also, all new, cool features will only come to the new Sophos XG Firewall."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
"Finding information about Sophos’ sizing guidelines can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th 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, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall NSa. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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