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."What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the interface, which is very user friendly. We are utilizing most of the features, like content filtering. The firewall is powerful."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"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."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"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."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"WildFire has been instrumental in blocking a number of new threats, before common desktop anti-virus tools were able to detect them."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The performance and speed are aspects of the solution that could always be improved upon."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"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."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"The price could be better."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"I would like to see them continue on their developmental roadmap for the product."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"The price could be better."
"The global product feature needs improvement, the VPN, and we need some enhanced features."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire could improve by adding support for manual submission of suspicious files and URLs. Additionally, it would be an advantage to add rule-based analysis. Currently, it uses only static and AI. We need to be able to analyze archive files."
"I think it would be nice for Palo Alto to work without the connection to the cloud. It is 100% powerful when connected to the cloud. But, if you disconnect from the cloud, you only get 40-50% power."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
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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