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 usage in general is pretty good."
"It is easy to use. We chose this product for the possibility to have virtual domains (VDOMs). We are building another company in the group, and we would like to split the firewalling rules and policies between these two companies. Each company would be able to manage its own policies and security rules, which is an advantage of Fortinet FortiGate. We can define VDOMs, and every company can manage its own VDOM as if it has its own physical firewall, but in fact, we would be using the same physical appliance because we are also using the same internet lines. So, it allows us to reuse the existing resources without the disadvantage of having to compromise on policies and security. Each company can choose its own way of working."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"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."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"The most valuable features of Palo Alto Networks WildFire are the good URL and file analysis that uses artificial intelligence. It has different interfaces, such as rest, SMTP protocol, and HTTPS. The Security incidents and event management are very good. Additionally, there are many file types that are supported and there is no limit to the number of files it can handle simultaneously. It integrates well with SIEM solutions."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"Stability is never a concern."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"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."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The initial setup was complex."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire could improve by adding support for manual submission of suspicious files and URLs. Additionally, it would be an advantage to add rule-based analysis. Currently, it uses only static and AI. We need to be able to analyze archive files."
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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