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."FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"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."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"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 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."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"I love the idea of Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It's more geared toward preventing malware. If someone's laptop or phone is malware-infected, the tool prevents it from uploading valuable corporate data outside the corporate network. That's what I love about Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It stops malware in its tracks."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"There is room for improvement in performance and the support language. The support they're providing right now is from a different country, and in our country, there are people—network admins and IT heads—who don't speak English properly. So Barracuda needs to provide support agents who speak additional languages, such as Bangla."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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 a little bit complex, mainly due to the GUI console and management challenges."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 11 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) with 21 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 "Excellent client-to-site VPN stability and great antivirus protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Intuitive, stable, and scalable zero-day threat prevention solution with a machine learning feature". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Azure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox.
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