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."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"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."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key 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."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"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."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"The performance has been good overall."
"The most valuable feature is the solution is easy to configure for users."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"It is very easy to use."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"The price could be better."
"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 biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"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."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The analytics are weak."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"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."
"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 VPN is an area that can be improved."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The data support response time should be improved."
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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