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."This version is stable. I don't have any issues with this solution, in our environment, it works well."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is built automatically."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"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 solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The performance has been good overall."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"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."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"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."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The analytics are weak."
"The price could be better."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"The implementation policy needs improvment."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
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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