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 filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The security on offer is very good."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"It gives a more accurate assessment of a virus in terms of whether it's truly a virus, malware, or a false positive. We have some legacy software that could pop up as being something that is malware. WildFire goes through and inspects it, and then it comes back and lets us know if it's a false positive. Usually, when it finds out that it's not a virus, it lets us know that it's benign, and it can exclude it from that scan, which means I don't even have to worry about that one popping up anymore."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"Stability is never a concern."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"Backup can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"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."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"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 price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"The price could be better."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The initial setup was complex."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
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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