We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"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."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"Remote access is excellent."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"The pricing could always be better."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"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 price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"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."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"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."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and SonicWall NSa, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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