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 technical support in our region is excellent."
"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."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"It performs very well."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"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 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."
"The solution is stable."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"It is very easy to use."
"The product is a simple and user-friendly UTM that can handle accounting, reporting, firewall, IPS, and antivirus for industries."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"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."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"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 would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"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."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"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."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"On-box sandstorm should be available. As of now, it is from their cloud."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"I had an issue when I was trying to stop a user from using too much bandwidth while I was using Azure, I was not able to stop them."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
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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