We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos UTM 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."We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"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."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"The isolation of infected machines is a big feature. Also, the ability to detect external sources that change files on a file server is really big."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"It helped to connect our satellite offices to the main Amazon infrastructure in a circular way."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"It allows our developers to be able to securely log into servers to deploy and manage software."
"Sophos is a unified solution. We have anti-virus protection, firewall rules, knotting, and DACC all in one box."
"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to administer."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"Initially, there were issues with the wireless network as wireless access points were disappearing from the dashboard after some time."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The five-factor authentication needs improvement."
"In Sophos UTM there is always a problem with the routing tables. If you want to see the routing table, you have to use the UI. You can't do it via a web browser. The routing table is better in Fortinet."
"The product could be simplified and made more self-explanatory."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"I would like some features that are available in other brands. For example, I sometimes a person is using too much bandwidth, and it isn't easy to find this information in Sophos. Also, we have to switch connections manually when we are using a VPN and lose the MPLS connection. It isn't automatic."
"The reporting could improve by providing information on where, or from which device attacks are coming from. We are already given the country where the attack is coming from but more information would be beneficial."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and SonicWall NSa, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and SonicWall NSa. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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