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."One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"What's most important is the ease of use."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Its price could be better."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The GUI is better in 8.0, but I still feel it lacks the fast response most of us desire. Logs are much quicker."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"The price could be better."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
"The deployment model could be better."
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.
We monitor all Firewalls reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.