We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point NGFW 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 blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"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."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Add-on features such as Virus Scanning, ATP, and web filtering add another level of protection and block malware before it gets to the end user."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"The management in Check Point is exceptional."
"The way in which a computer is immediately isolated if it starts behaving badly and I get a notification of an infected computer is also extremely nice and a great feature."
"It offers a range of models to enhance network security and it can be customized to secure endpoint client machines or user devices by deploying features like malware detection, antivirus, and mail security blades."
"Everything can be managed from a single dashboard nowadays."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"I have to say that it was Application Control and web filtering are excellent."
"The most valuable feature for us is the VSX, the virtualization."
"The product offers a robust and intuitive experience, catering to the essential needs of users."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"I feel that the reporting needs to be improved."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"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 a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"Its interface could be better."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"Check Point solutions have always been more complex to deploy than their competitors."
"The price of this product could be improved."
"If you have the standard support level, sometimes they take a long time to understand or even give you a solution or good workaround to a problematic situation."
"Check Point should include additional management choices; for example, Check Point does not offer full management support via browser."
"The current reporting capability needs to be parsed and edited to be appreciated by leadership."
"One thing to improve is the VSX gateway. It is quite complex to work with VSX and they are quite easy to break if you aren't familiar with them."
"Although there is a lot of automation and pattern that can be classified automatically, the IPS systems are sometimes a little bit complicated, and doing the fine-tuning in over 20,000 patterns is hard to do."
"The product could provide an easier user interface and management, by combining all functions (network and policy configuration) into one single application rather than split it into different applications."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8. 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 NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Azure Firewall, whereas Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Azure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Check Point NGFW report.
See our list of best Firewalls vendors.
We monitor all Firewalls reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.