We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The solution is stable."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"The solution should be capable of self-scaling, which is one of the features we like about it."
"Great security and connectivity."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"The Layer four features are okay and meet my business needs."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"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."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"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."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"They've become quite expensive."
"Lacks training for new features."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"For large organizations, a third-party firewall would be an added advantage, because it would have more advanced features, things that are not in Azure Firewall."
"Right now, with Azure Firewall, we cannot have a normal inbound traffic flow. For inbound, Microsoft suggests using application gateways, so the options are very limited. I cannot use this firewall as an intermediate firewall because of the limitations, and I cannot point routing to another firewall. So if I want to use back-to-back firewall architecture in my environment, I cannot use Azure Firewall for that type of configuration either."
"You have to have a defined IP range within your network to associate it with your network. The problem is you have to plan ahead of time if you expect to use the firewall in the future so that you don't have to reconfigure your subnets or that specific IP range. Other than that, I don't any issues. I use it for basic configuration for a single application, so I really don't try to leverage it for multiple applications where I might find some complexity or challenges."
"Azure should be able to work better as a balancer also, instead of just being a firewall. It should have a wider mandate."
"It's a little heavy compared to a FortiGate or other firewalls."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"The price could be better."
"Its interface could be better."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire. See our Azure Firewall vs. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall report.
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