We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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 SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"The GUI is good."
"The interface is very good."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"From my experience, comparing it to other products, the granularity you can have in the application is very good. The application detection is excellent. It's certainly one of the best."
"I like that they are more stable than the previous ones, and they allow a lot of other features."
"Identifying applications is very easy with this solution."
"The performance of Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is the most valuable feature."
"The payload is a very valuable feature."
"I love the Policy Optimizer feature. I am also completely happy with its stability."
"Flexible and integrates well with apps and other security tools."
"We have not had to replace hardware routers nor purchase additional hardware. So, that has provided a little bit of an ROI."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Some of the features in the graphical user interface do not work, which requires that we used the command-line-interface."
"Its price could be better."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The price could be better."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"Support should be improved, wait times can be long."
"The support could be improved. Palo Alto does not have a support team located in Bangladesh, and their support team operates from another location. Therefore, when we raise a ticket, it takes some time for them to respond, which can be problematic for us."
"I would like to see some Machine Learning because I have observed new types of attacks that are able to bypass existing security rules."
"If you enable SSL you will face a problem. The throughput of the firewall will be degraded. SSL is a big issue on all firewalls. All products suffer from issues with SSL, but Palo Alto firewalls suffer more from it."
"A major concern is making the licensing more accessible to enable small municipalities to afford and manage their own systems independently."
"Once in a while, they have new features being released that can be buggy. My criticism is more general to all sorts of network or security devices. In general, everybody is releasing less-tested software. Then, it usually ends up that the first few customers who get a new release need to end up troubleshooting it."
"They can work on the price. They are a little bit expensive, and not all customers are able to afford this solution. Taking into consideration that there is huge competition in the market and there are multiple firewall companies that are much cheaper than them and offer almost the same features, it would be good to improve the price."
"The first level of support will usually do nothing for you. If you're an IT company, you're not looking for level one support. You need to escalate. Other vendors have a direct support line for enterprise clients, but not Palo Alto."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is ranked 6th in Firewalls with 164 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls 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 Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls writes "We get reports back from WildFire on a minute-by-minute basis". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Cato SASE Cloud Platform, whereas Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls is most compared with Check Point NGFW, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Netgate pfSense. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls report.
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