We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"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."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"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."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature is the improved security that it offers."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the Automatic Verdict, to recognize whether something is a threat, or not."
"The solution has plenty of features."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"The scalability could be better."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"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."
"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."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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."
"The VPN and decryption need improvement."
"The price could be better."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"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."
"The free version does not have real-time updates. It is slow."
"There are some formats that the solution cannot support ."
"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."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
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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