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 IPS is good. It protect my network from attackers."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"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."
"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."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"The solution is stable."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"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."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"Technical support is excellent."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"All in one UTM appliance."
"The port forwarding is good."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"There is room for improvement in performance and the support language. The support they're providing right now is from a different country, and in our country, there are people—network admins and IT heads—who don't speak English properly. So Barracuda needs to provide support agents who speak additional languages, such as Bangla."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
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 Sophos XG. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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