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."It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"I like the SSL VPN connection. Cyberoam works well for controlling users and authenticating their connection to the internet."
"I believe it's the advanced security software that offers SMPP protection for the agent."
"Bandwidth Management and aggregation. It is valuable for combining two ISPs. Switching to a secondary/redundant ISP is thus seamless, in the event that the primary ISP goes down. The Bandwidth Management is also valuable for limiting heavy downloaders that may impact negatively on the experience of other users."
"We consider the user level and control features of Sophos Cyberoam UTM to be the best."
"Our customers find it economical and offers good security. These two features are key. Ease of installation and implementation are also key factors."
"The solution works perfectly without any users."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The analytics are weak."
"The price could be better."
"The product strategy of the manufacturer is strange. I don't understand what they are doing in that regard."
"The technical support response time could be faster."
"Its scalability is not that great."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"Sophos VPN connectivity could be improved, as it can be lengthy, and users take longer to connect"
"It isn't missing anything."
"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."
"There is a lot or room for improvement, because it is still not a fourth or fifth generation firewall. It lacks security features."
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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