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 solution is extremely reliable."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"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."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The initial setup was complex."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"The price could be better."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 11 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) with 21 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 "Excellent client-to-site VPN stability and great antivirus protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Intuitive, stable, and scalable zero-day threat prevention solution with a machine learning feature". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Azure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox.
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