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."It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"The solution is stable."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"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."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The VPN is excellent on the solution."
"The reporting features are very good."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Application management can be improved."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"There needs to be more documentation that users can access to help them understand the solution or troubleshoot as necessary."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"It isn't missing anything."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
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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