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 most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"The solution can scale well."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"It's very easy to configure."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The solution is stable."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"You have better control because you define apps. You just don't define ports. You define apps, and the apps are monitored in the traffic. It is more specific than the Cisco firewall when it comes to our needs."
"The solution is scalable."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"The analysis is very fast."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"It helps us when segmenting and securing the network and all sort of technologies, all sort of next generation needs. It's next generation phases of firewall like anti-virus, sandboxing, wifi, and VPN."
"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."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"Its interface could be better."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"The analytics are weak."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"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."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
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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