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 solution is very user-friendly."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"Add-on features such as Virus Scanning, ATP, and web filtering add another level of protection and block malware before it gets to the end user."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"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."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"The main features I have found best are the load balancer and ease of use."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"Its portal is user-friendly. I am able to manage the user data and access control through this device."
"Having a firewall solution with a data quota is very important when the bandwidth is limited, which really distinguishes it from other products."
"The security capabilities are okay."
"You can geofence yourself if there is an incoming attack or a continuous ping from a company outside your country."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"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."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"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."
"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."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The blocking needs to be improved."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM could have a more advanced reporting function."
"We use different workarounds and find different solutions for it, depending on the client's needs. We shouldn't have to, we should just be able to use the product as it comes with Cyberoam, rather than having to revert to other products."
"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."
"Cyberoam UTM needs to have more certifications with third-parties, such as NSS Labs."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"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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