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."It is a good source for firewall protection."
"It is very flexible to use."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"With FortiClient, you can easily connect when you are home, check out what you want to do, and connect to your network when you are not at work. You can switch on servers and you can check what is wrong."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"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."
"Good load balancing feature."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"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."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"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."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks WildFire is its ability to adapt to environments and its robustness."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"Remote access is excellent."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"Detailed reporting on analysis of content. The inspections are easily applied to security policy profiles and profile groups, and may be assigned on a per-rule basis."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"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."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"Its interface could be better."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The analytics are weak."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"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 size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The only complaint that we receive from our customers is in regards to the price."
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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