We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"Its administrative panel is very intuitive and simple. It is simpler than the other solutions that we had. As an administrator, we are always looking for the easiest solution to manage network policies. We are able to filter everything on our network and also use the VPN feature, which is important these days when people are working remotely during COVID."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"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."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"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."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"We get support in the free version."
"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."
"I love the idea of Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It's more geared toward preventing malware. If someone's laptop or phone is malware-infected, the tool prevents it from uploading valuable corporate data outside the corporate network. That's what I love about Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It stops malware in its tracks."
"I give the initial setup an eight out of ten."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"The most valuable features of the solution are user-friendliness, price, good security, and cloud-related options."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"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."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"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."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In terms of what I'd like to see in the next release of Palo Alto Networks WildFire, each release is based on malware that has been identified. The key problem is an average of six months from the time malware is written to the time it's discovered and a signature is created for it. The only advice that I can give is for them to shorten that timeframe. I don't know how they would do it, but if they shorten that, for example, cut it in half, they'll make themselves more famous."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"High availability features are lacking."
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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