We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Barracuda CloudGen 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."I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"The pricing is great and very reasonable."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"The solution can autoscale."
"I can easily configure it."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"One of the best features is that it natively integrates with Azure Services and tools. When you have a third-party offering, that is not the case. But Azure Firewall provides a comprehensive and seamless security solution for your Azure resources."
"Performance and stability are the key features of this product."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"It provided ease of maintenance. If a new firewall was needed, we only had to run the pipelines for this. So, the maintenance was very easy."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"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."
"Backup can be improved."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"This solution is not mature when it comes to handling perimeter traffic like internet browsing."
"Azure Firewall should have a free trial version for new users so that they can evaluate it before deploying it."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"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."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"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."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
Azure Firewall is ranked 22nd in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 20th in Firewalls with 35 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire. See our Azure Firewall vs. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall report.
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