We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos XG 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 signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The technical support is great."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The product is very easy to explore. It has a very good layout."
"The stability has been excellent."
"Sophos offers great disk encryption, anti protection, and the interface is very user-friendly."
"The firewall functionality and unified threat management are the most useful features."
"The most valuable feature is the central dashboard"
"We recommend Sophos XG as a priority as it is much more reliable and has efficient technical assistance."
"I particularly like the visibility it provides into network traffic, allowing us to identify and address issues efficiently."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"There is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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 price could be better."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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."
"Sophos XG should improve on the GDPR features involving data protection and encryption. Security regarding data protection is important."
"Content filtering could be more effective and efficient."
"The solution could improve by making the graphical interface better and increasing the performance."
"The interface could be simplified and diagnostic system graphs improved."
"The interface can bit a bit more user-friendly."
"The only area that requires improvement is scalability."
"The SD-WAN capability is not as good as it is in FortiGate, and is something that should be improved."
"For the standard end user, self-based training is necessary. When you get into the Sophos XG firewall and try to start creating NAT rules, it can be a little cumbersome for a novice. It's pretty easy once you know how to do it, but it will be hard for anybody who doesn't have experience."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos XG 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 Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos XG report.
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