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.
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The security on offer is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"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."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"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 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 reporting features are very good."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"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."
"User and network policies to be managed on a single screen with powerful filtering and search options."
"The most valuable feature of this product is the threat protection."
"The solution has good load balancers."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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 price could be better."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The analytics are weak."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The documentation is not straightforward."
"The solution is at its end of life and some of the appliances are finishing."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"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."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"Sometimes, users are timed out intermittently."
"The product fails to provide proper reports, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It isn't missing anything."
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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