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 is great."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"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."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"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."
"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."
"The tool is stable."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is the SD-WAN gateway."
"There are plenty of features that are valuable in the Sophos Cyberoam UTM. We use all the features, such as email Security, firewall rules, web server security, web devices, web protection."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is a very strong product with good support."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"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."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The price could be better."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"Its interface could be better."
"Once in a while, an unwanted email will slip in. You have to set your parameters to avoid that happening, but once in a while, an email has slipped past firewall. Once you update the firmware, you notice that it doesn't happen. If an email slips in, I get a little bit worried. I do get the report, but you just don't want that situation happening in the first place."
"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."
"When it comes to web filtering and application filtering, it does not contain enough signatures to determine all of the sites that need to be blocked."
"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."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"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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