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."There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"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."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is built automatically."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is very easy to use."
"Web and content filtering are valuable in preventing people from abusing the network and pushing up the bandwidth price."
"The product has helped control bandwidth utilization, as well as enhanced connectivity and security to remote locations."
"Web Filtering and Application Filtering saves a lot of my bandwidth and improves the user's productivity."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"Content filtering, as this enables me to control that which employees can view at different time quotas."
"The most valuable features are the firewall section, the VPN, and how you control live users."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"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."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"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."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"It should have better VPN protection. Some of the VPN applications are not blocked by this firewall. Some VPNs are able to get through this firewall, which is why I am planning to replace this firewall with a good one in the near future."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"I would say there's room for improvement in terms of the GUI. Because it is better than some of the other standard firewalls. They have the drag and drop features."
"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."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"I would like to see a better content management pack and also the website searching should be better."
"The Traffic Discovery feature should allow administrators to disconnect unnecessary live connections."
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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