We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Stormshield Network Security 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 pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"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."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"A very robust product."
"The most valuable features are the IPS, the firewall function, and the price."
"Easily manageable in a variety of environments."
"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."
"The solution has improved my organization because I can see what traffic is happening and I can use it to block and prevent attacks."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"Its interface could be better."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The product must improve its pricing."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."
"The biggest issue was their support department was not able to help us, then everything stops. This is a no-go area for me."
"With Stormshield, there are difficulties joining things, and it can be complex depending on the architecture."
"Improvement is needed in terms of the technical support of the manufacturer."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Stormshield Network Security 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 Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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