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 Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and others in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)."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."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"The analysis is very fast."
"Remote access is excellent."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"Using WildFire has reduced the number of viruses and the amount of malware that comes into our system, which means that I don't have to rely on the end-users to identify it."
"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."
"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 technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"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."
"The initial setup was a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) 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 Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Meraki MX, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection and Fortinet FortiSandbox.
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