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."We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"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."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"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."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The solution is stable."
"We get support in the free version."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"For example, if a security Intel threat talks about an IOC. We can then go to our MSP and say, "Is there a signature for this particular type of malware that just came out?" And if they'll say yes, then we'll say, "Okay. Does it apply to these firewalls? And have we seen any hits on it?" There's absolutely value in it."
"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 most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The price could be better."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"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."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
"The initial setup was complex."
"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."
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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