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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The solution is stable."
"It can expand easily."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"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."
"Add-on features such as Virus Scanning, ATP, and web filtering add another level of protection and block malware before it gets to the end user."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"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."
"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 most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"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."
"Web application filtering eases internet access control."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM is used for perimeter security, web filtering, intrusion prevention and as a VPN."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"The port forwarding is good."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"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 features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"The analytics are weak."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"I don't know whether this will be included in an upgrade, but I would like to get the user utility, like seeing where the users are using more of the data."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"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 would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The product’s pricing has increased by approximately 45% in four months. This particular area needs improvement."
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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