We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Netgate pfSense 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."The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"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."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"I especially like the VPN part. It works like a charm."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"The solution has good customization abilities and plenty of features."
"My company mainly works in the health and educational domain, schools and universities. I prevent the improper use of content from schools and universities. I defend the medical records for the patients in our hospitals. That is the main use case for me for the firewall."
"pfSense helped us during COVID-19 because we used OpenVPN to connect from home."
"Is good at blocking IP addresses."
"The product’s documentation is good."
"Creation of certificates and the facility to administer services are valuable features."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"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."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The analytics are weak."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"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."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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."
"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 Netgate forums and community don’t provide extensive discussions and topics related to every pfSense service."
"We would like to see ready-made profiles to cover most users' needs."
"This solution is good for small businesses but it is not as stable as other competitors such as Fortinet."
"Layer 7 advanced firewall features are not included in the solution."
"The GUI could use improvements, though it is manageable."
"It requires more attention to provide a better alternative for open source to small government or educational institutions with reduced budgets in terms of technology."
"Perhaps the documentation is not clear and because it is supported in the community there is no basic documentation."
"We have not had any problems with it, and we also do not have a need for any new features. If anything, its reporting can be better. Sophos has better reporting than pfSense. Sophos has more detailed information. pfSense is not as detailed. It is summarized."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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