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 most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"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 interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"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."
"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."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"With this product, we receive the best monitoring and reports."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"The reporting feature helps our performance."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"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."
"Remote access is excellent."
"My primary use case for this solution is for a secure gateway."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
"There are more specialized solutions that compete with Wildfire. Therefore, they need to work on their machine learning and AI to be more competitive."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"The cyber security visibility and forensics features to receive more information about incidents could improve in Palo Alto Networks WildFire."
"The initial setup was complex."
"In the future, I would like to see more automation in the reporting."
"As a firewall and 360 degrees of security, there needs to be more maturity."
"The system performance degrades after the solution has been deployed for some time. The data that it gives us becomes a little bit slow. When you try to get some data for troubleshooting, it seems like it's working hard to extract that data."
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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