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 wireless control is helpful."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"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."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"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."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"We get support in the free version."
"The most effective feature of WildFire for threat analysis is its collaboration with other security profiles on our Palo Alto firewall."
"The way that the solution quickly updates to adjust to threats is the solution's most valuable aspect. When there's a security attack, within five minutes, all Wildfire subscribers have access to updates so that all systems will be safe. Its threat prevention is way better than other vendor products."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"I like the analysis they apply to the unknown files, and I think they have good technology to use as a sandboxing tool. I didn't find something similar to WildFire in the marketplace."
"It has a user-friendly interface."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"They should make their user interface a little more user-friendly."
"It's not really their problem, it's a problem across the board. There will always be problems with interrupted traffic. We have to set it up where we're playing a middle man game where we're stripping it out, looking at it, and then putting it back together and sending it on its way. That requires CPU cycles. And there's some overhead with that."
"The support is good but they could be faster."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"The initial setup was complex."
"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."
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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