Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Valuable Features

Andrea Andrea - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE.iT SA

In the last project, we choose this brand of firewall. Normally, customers are asking us which is the better solution. Normally, since Barracuda has many different features, it is quite easy to use Barracuda instead of something else, since it offers a full set of features. It has a full-feature license. It is easy to adapt the solution to the customer's needs.

It's great to have an unlimited VPN, advanced threat protection, many other features inside the proxy server, and so on. It's far easier than building out of Barracuda fiber than, for example, Check Point, where you have to buy every single module independently from the other.

It is a product that is very feature-rich.

It's quite robust.

The initial setup is very easy.

It's great for handling complex items. If you want to flag Facebook you can. If you want to create a cluster, it's easy. There are many things you can do using this product and they make it all very simple. 

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Ruud Jansen - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior technisch consultant at Dycotrade

What I find the most valuable about the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is that it allows you to see what people are doing and what the highest rate or performance is among our team. Another valuable feature is the security of this solution. To further improve security, we'll buy the F280 version of this product.

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MC
IT Manager at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

They have very good security. You need special client software in order to configure the firewall. It doesn't have its own web interface, so as far as security goes, they're locked down very tightly.

The solution is stable.

It's scalable. 

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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
March 2024
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Mariusz Banasiak - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at AMIC POLSKA Sp. z o.o.

The product has a good interface. The system's logic is quite organized and effective compared to the pricing. Additionally, it provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends.

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Jocelyn Wotring - PeerSpot reviewer
Computer Consultant at B.D.Laraway & Associates

The stability of the client-to-site VPN or the client VPN software has been excellent. The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great. I love the level of logging with it because it makes running my quarterly reports and things for our ISO certifications a lot easier for us.

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KellyWotton - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Renfrew Victoria Hospital

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.

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KS
Data Wizard at P n P Oil and Gas Solutions

Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable. 

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RM
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

I like the identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features. Those features provide us with the ability to give individuals or groups of users specific application access with the confidence that you have malware protection.

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GD
Network Administrator at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
  • Ease of use and troubleshooting.
  • Very easy to quickly identify issues and resolve them.
  • Add-on features such as Virus Scanning, ATP, and web filtering - These features add another level of protection and block malware before it gets to the end user. 
  • 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.
  • TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is automatically built.
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AN
Founder CTO at a tech services company with self employed

Its advanced protection against threats like malware is fantastic. As I noted, in eight years I haven't had an incident.

Barracuda provides Zero Trust access for work from home, for almost any application and from almost any device. That is important because of the Corona situation. Before Corona, we already had about 20 percent in a work-from-home situation in our network, but because of Corona, 80 percent of our work is done from home right now. That makes this feature really important. Before, it was 20 percent important, but now it is 80 percent important.

In addition, 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.

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it_user549963 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at let's-ConnectIndia

Live monitoring of what is happening inside and with the interfaces, either ingress or egress - this is a good feature of the device.

Secondly, most people use enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN.

Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is an integration with the AD. You can use your AD's password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy a traditional SSL VPN. You have to define a specific password for your remote client application but there is no requirement of defining a specific password - which you would have to request from your admin - or to buy a token which can generate a password for your integration. You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. The admin doesn't has to change your password, it's a single sign-on.

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CJ
Co-Owner at Xtreme Works, Inc.

The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable. They also have a feature called instant hardware replacement.

Essentially, if you subscribe to a service, they replace the whole system in about four years, including the hardware. So, you have a new and upgraded one. Since there is a technology refresh, you don't have to consider replacing it or acquiring a new one.

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KL
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The is SIEM is very valuable for us. 

The dynamic VPN is great.

Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good.

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it_user277008 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr ICT Consultant at ditp

The real difference is the fact that it truly scales, and fully managing a thousand firewalls worldwide with a team of two is quite doable. Even with serious hardware failures, you can often still securely manage the system and analyze the issue at hand, or even fix certain issues. Other indispensable functions, are the full transparency of handled data, both real time and historical, the ability to create VPN tunnels in the blink of an eye, the multiple parallel VPN tunnels, and near infinite routing options.

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WM
Consulting Engineer at IV4

I like the use of the dashboard or the control panel to be able to manage multiple firewalls in either one entity or across multiples. The solution is fairly easy to configure.

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AK
Leiterin Netzwerk Security at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources. The product offers very good management.

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NK
Project Manager & IT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The encryption and the security standards are valuable.

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RR
Works

The solution has the best security features.

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HT
Business Systems Manager at ACT Pipe & Supply, Inc.

The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning.

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TR
Director at TT-Repair
  • Inbound and outbound traffic analysis
  • Rule creation wizard
  • GUI portal
  • Quality online support
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it_user219912 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastucture - Cloud Admin at Primary S.A.

In the time we were using it:

  • Intrusion Prevention System/Intrusion Detection System (IPS/IDS)
  • Layer 7 filtering
  • DDoS prevention
  • HA
  • Traffic management, among others.
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MR
Senior Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

What I like best about this product are the support and the features.

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JT
System Administrator at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
  • It is easy to use.
  • It actually works really well. 
  • Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out.
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VijayKumar8 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Progressive Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

The ease of use is very valuable, and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is very responsive. When you make any changes, it works instantly. Additionally, they have a very responsive customer service and support team.

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ML
Director of IT at Superfeet Worldwide Inc.
  • The brand
  • Agility
  • Price per performance
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IC
CIO LATAM at i-Track Systems Development, S.A. de C.V.

Barracuda has a very simple interface, very good security, all the features of the best firewalls in the market, but with a very friendly interface.

Something that we've seen that Barracuda, and some other brands also, have. When you program the firewall to detect certain kinds of attacks, Barracuda can detect that kind of attack and automatically insulate, or remove, or encapsulate the very specific IP, if it's internal. And if it's external it just blocks any kind of communication with that specific IP. If you want, Barracuda will warn the security team. If you allow, or release, that IP, it will continue communication. If not, it will block it forever, or until you release it.

Internally, we'll remove it until you release also, but we allow the IT team to review what is happening with that particular piece of equipment, a computer, a laptop, a server, any kind of device into which a "back door" can be opened or through which they're trying to get some information. Barracuda can help with that. That is one of the most important features we've seen with Barracuda.

I cannot mention the name, due to the NDA that we have signed with a financial company, a financial entity. But we implemented Barracuda with them. Right now they are monitoring all the information that their employees are managing. 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.

Even in the network, a feature of Windows is to see how you are sharing files. Barracuda can help you to monitor how you are moving files.

When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information; it's not allowing you to do that. That was the biggest feature that that financial entity admired in Barracuda, among others.

Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access.

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Mariusz Banasiak - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at AMIC POLSKA Sp. z o.o.

The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use.

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DV
System & Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

At the moment, the most valuable features are Application Control (Layer 7 filtering) and IPS/IDS. For existing network architecture, we use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We use it to control all in/out Internet traffic.

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it_user217800 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant - Network Admin at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
  • TINA tunnels
  • Real time firewall logs
  • GFI editor
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VL
Consultant with 51-200 employees

The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program. 

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it_user298419 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • Firewall
  • VPN protocol - TINA
  • Antivirus
  • URL filter
  • Web filter
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RO
System Engineer at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients.

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it_user221850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The VPN feature.

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MS
Head of Technology and Operations at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable.

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Buyer's Guide
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Barracuda CloudGen Firewall. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.