We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall 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."Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"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."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Cisco Secure Firewall's security solutions, advanced malware protection, and DDoS communication are very good."
"Management Console and user profiling to define activities."
"The initial setup was not complex."
"The user interface is very easy to manage and find rules. You can do object searches, which are very easy. Also, the logging is very simple to use. So, it is a lot easier to troubleshoot and find items inside the firewall."
"The most valuable feature we have found to be the VPN because we use it often."
"Being able to use it as a policy-based VPN is valuable. It's very easy to understand. It's very easy to troubleshoot."
"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."
"The most valuable feature would be the IP blocking. It gets rid of things that you don't need in your environment."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the protection, it did not prevent us from being attacked. Additionally, Fortinet FortiGate could provide more features for WAF devices. I should not have to purchase two solutions, it would be a benefit to combine these features into one solution."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Its interface could be better."
"Cisco should redo their website so it's actually usable in a faster way."
"In terms of functionality, there isn't much to improve. There could be more bandwidth and better interface speed."
"I have worked with the new FTD models and they have more features than the ASA line."
"Firepower's user experience should be a little bit better."
"The product would be improved if the GUI could be brought into the 21st Century."
"You need to have a little bit of knowledge to be able to configure it. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to configure because there is no GUI. The latest software available in the market has a GUI and probably zero-touch provisioning and auto-configuration. All these things are not available in our version. You need to manually go and configure everything in the switch. In terms of new features, we would definitely want to have URL-based filtering, traffic steering, and probably a little bit steering in the bandwidth based on the per-user level and per-user group. We will definitely need some of these features in the near future."
"It would be great if some of the load times were faster."
"The Cisco Secure Firewall could benefit from enhancements in its API, documentation, and automation tools."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Firewall 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 Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Meraki MX, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Cisco Secure Firewall report.
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