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 notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the SSL VPN and the User Portal."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"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."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"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."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"It is a very stable solution."
"We get support in the free version."
"The backup is the best feature."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"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."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"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."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"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."
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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