We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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."It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"The solution is stable."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The solution is scalable."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... 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. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"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 and not allow you to do that."
"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 built automatically."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"The solution is reliable."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has a beautiful threat emulation different from the market."
"The tool's deployment is rapid. Its dashboard is also useful. It's easy to deploy both on-premises and in Azure. In an office with VMware running, deployment is a simple process. Similarly, in Azure, deployment is easy and scalable. Adding more CPUs is a straightforward task – just shut it down, modify the security, and restart. This ease of use translates into cost and resource savings, and faster deployment times."
"SSL/TLS traffic inspection features are used for advanced threat prevention against secure SSL traffic."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"It is a good-to-use tool that is also flexible."
"The most valuable feature for us is the scale set, which allows us to scale horizontally, vertically and dynamically depending on the traffic load."
"The comprehensiveness of the CloudGuard’s threat prevention security is great, especially once they integrate Dome9 in the whole thing. That really ties the whole thing together, so you can tie your entire cloud environment together into one central location, which is nice. Previously, we had three or four different tools that we were trying to leverage to do the same stuff that we are able to do with CloudGuard."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The analytics are weak."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The solution’s technical support, DNS security and training could be improved."
"Lacks the ability to integrate with other security solutions."
"At the cost level, the solution is somewhat expensive."
"For major upgrades, it's still necessary to destroy the VMs and re-create them again. Doing that would mean new public IPs as well."
"The documentation has been rough. Being able to do it yourself can be hit or miss given the constraints of the documentation."
"I would like to see a step-by-step initial installation of the firewall. That would be really helpful. Like in Oracle appliances, when you start it asks you, what's your current IP address? An initial setup should be a step by step and intuitive process. You click on "begin," it asks you some simple questions. You fill in the blanks - your current IP address, what you want to do, you want to set up a site to site VPN, for example, that kind of thing. That would be the smartest thing to have."
"There are some usability issues we'd like to see improved."
"There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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