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 base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate is user-friendly and affordable."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"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 solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"We are using it as a security shield. It does not allow access before that in case we have restricted a few things from users, so it helps me in that."
"It is a VPN that serves all your needs as an application firewall."
"The solution's interface is user-friendly, and the web protection is good. The tool is highly stable. The product is scalable. The technical support is good. We chose Sophos Cyberoam UTM because their focus on security research is higher compared to other brands. It's an all-in-one solution with antivirus, EDR, wireless protection, and web protection integrated into one box. The initial setup was straightforward."
"The UI could be improved."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"They are doing good, but they can improve the distributor assignment. The availability of the product and the timeline of delivery are the main things. The distribution should be swift, and the distributor should not reach out to end customers directly. They should work as a distributor. There should also be one more local distributor. Currently, there is only one distributor in Pakistan, and the rest of them are in UAE. It is difficult to work with only one distributor. Sometimes, you don't get along with the same distributor, and that's why they should have one more distributor. Their licensing should also be improved. The activation or renewal of the product should be done from the date of renewal, not from the date on which the license expired."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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 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 features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"Its interface could be better."
"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 the connection improved."
"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."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could improve by adding VPN site-to-site capabilities. The correct version does not work with Microsoft Azure Cloud."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th 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 Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Sophos UTM and SonicWall NSa. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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