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."We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"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."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"It is the best device in comparison to other network products in the marketplace."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"Fortinet FortiGate should improve the VPN tokens."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The analytics are weak."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"The price could be better."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
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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