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."The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"It performs very well."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"We use the solution for application and server deployment."
"The SIEM that Azure Firewall provides us is very robust."
"It is easy for me to protect certain ports or even the IP addresses, as well as do whitelisting, blacklisting, and the FQDN when we want virtual machines connected and to protect certain websites."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"Microsoft's technical support is very good. They're quite knowledgable and responsive."
"Great security and connectivity."
"The firewall policy control, URL content control, and antivirus are all the most valuable aspects. Threat prevention is as well quite good."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is the control over the network permissions and the network."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"The solution is stable."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"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."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"The reports are very basic."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"The solution doesn't offer the same capabilities of Fortinet. It should offer intrusion prevention and advance filtering. These are two very useful features offered on Fortinet that Azure lacks."
"There are a number of things that need to be simplified, but it's mostly costs. It needs to be simplified because it's pretty expensive."
"It would be nice to be able to create groupings for servers and offer groups of IP addresses."
"The product could be made more customizable."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"It would be much easier if the on-premises, firewall rules, had some kind of export-import possibility in place, which is not the case right now."
"An Azure firewall is not a real firewall."
"The development area and QA area could be improved. With those improvements, we can improve projects and take even less time to implement them."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The price could be better."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"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."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
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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