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 SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"The product offers very good security."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"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."
"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."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"The solution is stable."
"We get support in the free version."
"The technical support is good."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VPN."
"The solution is easy to use and the Panorama feature is good. The software management or the malware blocking and some authentication management system are good."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"When comparing this solution to others it is not as good overall."
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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