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's very easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"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."
"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."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"For example, if a security Intel threat talks about an IOC. We can then go to our MSP and say, "Is there a signature for this particular type of malware that just came out?" And if they'll say yes, then we'll say, "Okay. Does it apply to these firewalls? And have we seen any hits on it?" There's absolutely value in it."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"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 technical support is good."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The initial setup is complex."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"In terms of what could be improved, the SD-WAN is quite difficult, because if you install the new box, 15 is okay, but if you change from an old configuration, if there is already configuration and a policy when you change to SD-WAN, you must change the whole policy that you see in the interface."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"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."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"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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