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 main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"It is a safe product."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"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 stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"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."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The dashboard is very good-looking and offers maximum features. If a customer's website has a problem, we can guide them over the phone because they can easily find the specific option on the dashboard. That's why we suggest buying Sophos."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"The tool is stable."
"The product, itself, doesn't seem to have any bugs or glitches."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"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."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The price could be better."
"Its interface could be better."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"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."
"While the security features are excellent, they could be improved."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The reporting part could be more user-friendly for troubleshooting and identifying network issues. It should be more easy for a normal user to identify the problem in their network."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
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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