We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Cisco Secure 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."Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Overall security features and performance routing is good."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"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."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"Firepower has been used for quite a few enterprise clients. Most of our clients are Fortune 500 and Firepower is used to improve their end to end firewall functionality."
"The high-availability features, the VPN and the IPSec, are our top three features."
"Web filtering is a big improvement for us. The previous version we used, the AC520, did not have that feature included. It was not very easy for us, especially because the environment had to be isolated and we needed to get updates from outside, such as Windows patches. That feature has really helped us when we are going outside to pull those patches."
"The features I have found most valuable are the ASA firewalls. I like to have features like most integrated systems in ACI."
"We use the solution for deep packet inspection, Internet Edge functionality, IDS, and IDP."
"The most valuable features of Cisco firewalls are the IPS and IDS items. We find them very helpful. Those are the biggest things because we have some odd, custom-made products in our environment. What we've found through their IPS and IDS is that their vulnerability engines have caught things that are near-Zero-day items, inside of our network."
"The user interface is easy to navigate."
"Cisco's engineer helped us with a lot of scripting to see what existed. Previously, we didn't have a proper policy. In fact, we didn't have any policy because we didn't have any firewall for the data center, so generating a policy was a big challenge. Cisco's engineer helped us to do some scripting and find out what kind of policy we can have and organize those policies. That was nice."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The analytics are weak."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"I would say that in inexperienced hands, the interface can be kind of overwhelming. There are just a lot of options. Too much, if you don't know what you are looking for or trying to do."
"There is room for improvement in the stability or software quality of the product. There were a few things in the past where we had a little bit of a problem with the product, so there is room for improvement."
"It integrates with other security products from Cisco, but sometimes, there can be glitches or errors."
"I needed to be well-versed with all the command lines for Cisco ASA in order to fully utilize it. I missed this info and wasted some operational costs."
"I would like the ability to drill down into certain reports because currently, that cannot be done."
"The GUI interface could be improved when compared to other solutions."
"One area where the ASA could be improved is that it doesn't have AMP. When you get an ASA with the Firepower model, ASA with FTD, then you have advanced malware protection."
"Virtual patching would be helpful for servers that are not able to update patches due to compatibility issues."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Cisco Secure Firewall report.
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