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."We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"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."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"The solution is stable."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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."
"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."
"Being an application-based firewall, this is one of the critical focus factors along with the threat prevention services it provides."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"Their technical support is outstanding and top-notch."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud-based protection against zero-day malware attacks."
"A good tool for file scanning and email threat detection, especially when it comes to attachments and communications."
"The analysis is very fast."
"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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are sandbox capabilities."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"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."
"I don't think it needs to improve anything, except maybe the speed to deploy the changes."
"The size of Palo Alto's cloud is big but it could be easier to use from a product management perspective."
"Any enhancements should likely be focused on the firewall appliance to further strengthen overall security capabilities, such as refining app and user identity features."
"The price of WildFire should be reduced in order to make it more affordable for our customers."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
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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