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."Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"We have been able to offer several services to customers in a single box."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Add-on features such as Virus Scanning, ATP, and web filtering add another level of protection and block malware before it gets to the end user."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"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."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"The analysis is very fast."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"We have found that Palo Alto Networks WildFire is scalable. We currently have six thousand users for the product."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"I think that the infrastructure for the VPN could be improved. The way that it is bundled also made it difficult to use and sell as it is too expensive."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"The analytics are weak."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"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."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"The only problem with this solution is the cost. It's expensive."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The deployment model could be better."
"Other vendors have some sort of bandwidth management built into the firewall itself and Palo Alto is missing that."
"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."
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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