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."This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"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."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is built automatically."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"Remote access is excellent."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"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 Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"We sometimes have issues with FortiGate's routing table in the latest firmware update. We had to downgrade the device because our customers complained about bugs."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"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."
"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."
"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 initial setup is a bit complex."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
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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