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 pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"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."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"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."
"The solution is scalable."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"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."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) 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, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Meraki MX, 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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