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."There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"The solution is scalable."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"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."
"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 ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The best feature is the flexibility the product offers, in terms of remote access. What we had before was a decentralized mechanism in our organization, but after having this product we were able to get the remote locations into the same LAN. We were able to control the bandwidth and were able to take virtual access of those machines and give them the support, as and when required."
"Cyberoam UTM's most valuable feature is that it can be configured any way you like."
"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."
"In some circumstances, the malware functionality is the most important feature, and in other cases, some other features."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
"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."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"Application management can be improved."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"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."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"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."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"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 solution could be cheaper."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
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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