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 features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The interface is very good."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"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 would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"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."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"The solution is stable."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"The firewall feature has different branches, such as extended firewalls."
"The solution is easy to integrate."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"We have never had to restart a firewall. The firewalls have all worked perfectly fine."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"Good user interface."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"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."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"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 solution could be cheaper."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"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."
"The product had a hang issue. We needed to reboot, recreate the image, and reconfigure the previous image because the product hanged frequently."
"The product needs to improve its pricing."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
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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