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.
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"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."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"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 reporting features are very good."
"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 solution has good load balancers."
"For a small-medium enterprise this solution is easy to manage and operate."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"I like Sophos Cyberoam UTM as a security component or device for organizations. Performance-wise, it's a satisfactory solution, and it works okay. It also has good features."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection 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 initial setup is a bit complex."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"There are some issues with logs and report limitations."
"The data support response time should be improved."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
"SD-WAN should be included in the tool."
"In my experience the solution can be easier to configure with more documentation, we need more training."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The reporting should be improved as well as the backup."
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 Untangle NG Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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