We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam 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."The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"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."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"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."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"The analytics are weak."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"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."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
"Smaller CR15 units don’t have a hard disc or built in IView software. These units could do with that feature."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"The VPN needs to be improved."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0. 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 Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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