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."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"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."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The benefits we see from the ASA are connected to teleworking as well as, of course, having the basic functionality of a firewall in place and the prevention of attacks."
"It brings us the ability to work from anywhere and has allowed us to work remotely without having to incur a lot of other costs. If we didn't have this type of solution, since we have so many on-prem services that are required, we would have likely lost money and been unable to deliver. We have a video services team who helped build the content for our sporting events. When you are watching a Leaf game and those swipes come by as well as the clips and things, those are all generated in-house. Without the ability to access our on-premise resources, we would have been dead in the water. So, the return on that is pretty impressive."
"The product is easy to manage and simple. It works with the rest of our Cisco products. You can drop in new ones if you need more performance. The training and documentation provided are good."
"The transparency of the single UI to ensure security. A product has to be simple so that an administrator can use it."
"Cisco ASA has an okay CLI with a nice GUI."
"ASA is stable and with a low level of work required on the maintenance side."
"Even in very big environments, Cisco comes in handy with configuration and offers reliability when it comes to managing multiple items on one platform."
"It's a flexible solution and is well-known in the community."
"It needs more available central management."
"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."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"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."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"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."
"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."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"Implementations require the use of a console. It would help if the console was embedded."
"The only drawback of the user interface is when it comes to policies. When you open it and click on the policies, you have to move manually left and right if you want to see the whole field within the cell. Checkpoint has a very detailed user interface."
"You shouldn't have to use the ASDM to help manage the client."
"It could use a web-based portal for VPN. Earlier they had it in the ASA model, but currently they don't have it."
"The graphical interface should be improved to make the configuration easier, to do things with a single click."
"I have found that Cisco reporting capabilities are not as rich as other products, so the reporting could be improved."
"I would like to see more configurable feature parity with Cisco ASA, which is the legacy product that Cisco is moving away from. When configuring remote access VPN, not all of the options are there. You have to download another tool, which means that the configuration takes a little bit longer with Cisco Secure Firewall. Though it's getting there, there are still some features lagging behind."
"In terms of functionality, there isn't much to improve. There could be more bandwidth and better interface speed."
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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