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"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"The most valuable feature would be the IP blocking. It gets rid of things that you don't need in your environment."
"The configuration capabilities and the integration with other tools are the most valuable features. I really like this product. Cisco is one of my favorite brands, and I always think Cisco solutions are very reliable, easy to configure, and very secure."
"If you compare the ASA and the FirePOWER, the best feature with FirePOWER is easy to use GUI. It has most of the same functionality in the Next-Generation FirePOWER, such as IPS, IPS policies, security intelligence, and integration and identification of all the devices or hardware you have in your network. Additionally, this solution is user-friendly."
"The whole firewall functionality, including firewall policies and IPS policies, is valuable. It has all kinds of functionalities. It has IPS, VPN, and other features. They are doing quite a lot of stuff with their devices."
"The most valuable features for my client are the ASDM and monitoring."
"I love the ASDM (Adaptive Security Device Manager) which is the management suite. It's a GUI and you're able to see everything at a glance without using the command line. There are those who love the CLI, but with ASDM it is easier to see where everything is going and where the problems are."
"It is a highly stable product. We rarely receive any serious outdates, so it works quite well."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The price could be better."
"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 initial setup is a bit complex."
"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 like to see the connection improved."
"Deploying configurations takes longer than it should."
"Changes you make in the GUI sometimes do not reflect in the command line and vice versa."
"Most users do not have awareness of this product's functionality and features. Cisco should do something to make them aware of them. That would be quite excellent and useful to organizations that are still using legacy data-center-security products."
"Maybe the dashboard could be a bit better."
"One feature I would like to see, that Firepower doesn't have, is email security. Perhaps in the future, Cisco will integrate Cisco Umbrella with Firepower. I don't see why we should have to pay for two separate products when both could be integrated in one box."
"I would like to see more configurable feature parity with Cisco ASA, which is the legacy product that Cisco is moving away from. When configuring remote access VPN, not all of the options are there. You have to download another tool, which means that the configuration takes a little bit longer with Cisco Secure Firewall. Though it's getting there, there are still some features lagging behind."
"ASDM can be improved."
"An area for improvement is the graphical user interface. That is something that is coming up now. They could make the product more user-friendly. A better GUI is something that would make life much easier."
"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."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"The debugging and troubleshooting has room for improvement."
