We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos XG 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."Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"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."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"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."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Great interface and in-built help is very intuitive."
"The most significant aspect is the protection it offers."
"It is easy to implement."
"We have found that the simplicity of the XG 210 is its most valuable feature."
"Sophos is a stable solution, and we haven't had any bugs or limitations."
"The user interface is very good."
"The solution seems to be very easy to use."
"Sophos CG is cost-effective, which makes it really suitable for SMB. If you want basic security and more embedded features, go with Sophos XG."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"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."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"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."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"We feel that the GUI can be improved a bit because it has a lot of information and looks a bit outdated."
"The support from the vendor needs to be improved."
"It is complicated to get the reports if you are not experienced with Sophos."
"They can simplify its interface so that it is mostly drag-and-drop. There was an SQL injection attack on some Sophos devices. They just need to harden their devices a little bit so that they can't be hacked very easily."
"When I call, I have to wait at least one to two hours to reach them."
"The user interface could be improved and more bandwidth management would be helpful."
"The solution is tied to the US dollar. You need to pay whatever the equivalent is in your own currency, and, if the exchange is bad, it can really add to the cost."
"All of the options should be available when I renew my subscription for the year. As it is now, there are some limitations."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos XG is rated 8.2. 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 XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall and Meraki MX, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos XG report.
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