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."Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"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."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"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."
"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."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"The solution is stable."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"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 works perfectly without any users."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The port forwarding is good."
"The performance has been good overall."
"In terms of features and user-friendliness, the solution is good. It’s very stable. The solution is scalable. In Sophos Cyberoam UTM, the most valuable features are web and application filtering, routing functionalities, and VPN. It has helped us manage the bandwidth."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"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."
"The reports are very basic."
"Its price could be better."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"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."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"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."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"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."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
"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."
"Technical support 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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