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."It is a good source for firewall protection."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate's antispam filter, SPN, and clustering features."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"The implementation is pretty straightforward."
"Filtering is the best feature."
"We have not had to deal with stability issues."
"You can also put everything into a nice, neat, little package, as far as configuration goes. I was formerly a command-line guy with the ASA, and I was a little nervous about dealing with a GUI interface versus a command line, but after I did my first deployment, I got a lot more comfortable with doing it GUI based."
"It is one of the fastest solutions, if not the fastest, in the security technology space. This gives us peace of mind knowing that as soon as a new attack comes online that we will be protected in short order. From that perspective, no one really comes close now to Firepower, which is hugely valuable to us from an upcoming new attack prevention perspective."
"We have been using a 5520 for seven years in our datacenter and we are satisfied by this version."
"It is scalable and stable."
"Unfortunately in Cisco, only the hardware was good."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"Its customer service could be better."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"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."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"It is slowly not supported and other vendors are a few years ahead of Cisco in development."
"I don't have any specific improvements to recommend. However, when you compare the throughput of a Cisco firewall to the competitors, especially Fortinet, what you find is that Cisco has lagged a little bit behind in terms of firewall throughput, especially for the price that you pay for that throughput."
"I would like to see improvement when you create policies on Snort 3 IPS on Cisco Firepower. On Snort 2, it was more like a UI page where you had some multiple choices where you could tweak your config. On Snort 3, the idea is more to build some rules on the text file or JSON file, then push it. So, I would like to see a lot of improvements here."
"The Firepower FTD code is missing some old ASA firewalls codes. It's a small thing. But Firepower software isn't missing things that are essential, anymore."
"The solution is overcomplicated in some senses. Simplifying it would be an improvement."
"The ability to integrate (as options) all-in-one features -- like anti-spam, anti-virus, etc."
"We would really like to see dual dual power supplies for some Cisco Firewall products."
"We see a lot of vendors in the market with a lot of niche products. I understand that it's difficult to cover everything, but making it more open for integration with other vendors would be a value add for Cisco."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th 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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