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."I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"The GUI is good."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"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."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"The most valuable feature is the IPSec forwarding."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"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."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The solution is very expensive."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The support system could be improved."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"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."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The price could be better."
"Maybe network traffic analysis for malware and malicious behavior."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"Needs a mail alert/notification when the device loses any of its connections, during ISP redundancy implementation."
"The solution's pricing could be a problem for some small businesses."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The setup is a bit complex, so we needed help from a consultant."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
"The policy is a bit too vague."
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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