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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"We get support in the free version."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The solution is very expensive."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"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."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"Its interface could be better."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
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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