We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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."It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"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."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"We primarily secure our network using CloudGuard Network Security's next-generation firewall features, including anti-spam, IPS, and URL filtering. Our chosen package for the go-to-market strategy is NGTP. For customers seeking more features, we provide options to upgrade to the tool's advanced packages."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the increased mail protection including spam."
"Moving into the cloud without having to change a lot of our internal processes and retrain staff is one of the biggest benefits of this solution."
"The central management feature is a big plus, allowing us to manage both local and cloud gateways from one platform."
"The solution is reliable."
"The most valuable feature for me is that you have just one license. You can test and implement everything you need with one license. You do not need to pay for separate module licenses when you want IPS or other features."
"Identity awareness, URL filtering, IDS, DLP, Content Filtering, VPN, and Application Control are all excellent."
"This solution has good scalability and stability."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"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."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it'd be great."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"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 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."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"There is room for improvement in performance and the support language. The support they're providing right now is from a different country, and in our country, there are people—network admins and IT heads—who don't speak English properly. So Barracuda needs to provide support agents who speak additional languages, such as Bangla."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"For major upgrades, it's still necessary to destroy the VMs and re-create them again. Doing that would mean new public IPs as well."
"I would like to see a step-by-step initial installation of the firewall. That would be really helpful. Like in Oracle appliances, when you start it asks you, what's your current IP address? An initial setup should be a step by step and intuitive process. You click on "begin," it asks you some simple questions. You fill in the blanks - your current IP address, what you want to do, you want to set up a site to site VPN, for example, that kind of thing. That would be the smartest thing to have."
"Our biggest complaint concerns the high resource usage for IDP/IPS, as we cannot turn on all of the features even with new hardware."
"Its price is fair, but it can be more favorable."
"New features have been introduced recently, but they have not yet been integrated into CloudGuard Vsec."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"CheckPoint CloudGuard could be better at solving cases."
"The price of the solution could be reduced, it is expensive."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 121 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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 Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "Highly reliable, great visibility, and centralized management". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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