We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and SonicWall NSa 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's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"It is easy to use. We chose this product for the possibility to have virtual domains (VDOMs). We are building another company in the group, and we would like to split the firewalling rules and policies between these two companies. Each company would be able to manage its own policies and security rules, which is an advantage of Fortinet FortiGate. We can define VDOMs, and every company can manage its own VDOM as if it has its own physical firewall, but in fact, we would be using the same physical appliance because we are also using the same internet lines. So, it allows us to reuse the existing resources without the disadvantage of having to compromise on policies and security. Each company can choose its own way of working."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"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."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"For me, the most valuable feature of SonicWall NSa is the UTM."
"It is able to fulfill my requirements. It protects our network environment. It has control over IPS, signatures, and it can also manage bandwidth and mapping. It is also stable and has good support."
"SonicWall has USCS and anti-virus at the gateway level. Everything is filtered, and if it detects an intruder, it drops the line."
"Support is usually good when it comes to helping with issues."
"The solution has many useful features, such as content management, user management, user filtering, and domain controller connectivity mapping."
"SonicWall has all the usual functions, like LAN configurations, security features, word filters, etc., but it also has the CFS agent, which isn't available in any other firewall. Reporting port support is also there."
"We have utilized all the features. The most valuable are the URL filtering by category, DMZ zoning, load balancing and site-to-site VPN."
"Support has improved dramatically since their separation from Dell."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The analytics are weak."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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 administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The solution can be a bit expensive."
"Some of the configurations could be better."
"The product likely isn't a good fit for a large organization."
"The features I would like to see improve are the dashboard and the UI."
"The logging, reporting, and storage capacity size could improve in a future release."
"An area for improvement would be SonicWall NSa's integration with antiviruses."
"SonicWall does not support DynDNS, yet this is an important feature for smaller companies that do not have a static IP address."
"A room for improvement in SonicWall NSa is the log server because it could be more user-friendly compared to Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks. My company has many rule sets up for review, so sometimes, my team needs to use Excel for filtering, but the UI cannot support the Excel function."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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