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."Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The technical support is great."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"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 simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The technical support is good."
"Intuitive threat prevention and analysis solution, with a machine learning feature. Scalable, stable, and protects against zero-day threats."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"Stability is never a concern."
"We get support in the free version."
"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."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"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."
"High availability features are lacking."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"In the future, Palo Alto could reduce the time it takes to process the file."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) 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, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Meraki MX, 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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