We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Fortinet FortiOS 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 response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"It performs very well."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"Initial setup is straightforward. There weren't too many issues with setting it up. It takes one hour or so."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The GUI is good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"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."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"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."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"The solution is stable."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"It has a lot of scalability abilities which makes it easy to scale."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"The product is scalable and easily expands."
"The solution is very easy to configure and has a good interface, plus it offers more configuration options than other vendors."
"Fortinet FortiOS's valuable features include intuitive policy creation and deployment, precise parameter settings to determine thresholds, and security profiles such as web filtering and remote application filtering, among others."
"The information security features are the most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"Its price could be better."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"The graphical user interface of Fortinet's FortiGate product does not function well with text-based interfaces."
"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 biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"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."
"FortiOS could provide a more detailed analysis of the network and connected devices."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiOS could improve by having better authentication methods with Microsoft or Google Services."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the pricing could be lower. The price is very steep."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"Fortinet needs to make this solution even more robust. Sometimes when we get a DDoS attack, the cannot withstand it. We can run out of sessions very easily. That said, I suppose if you want more a robust system, then you could purchase higher-end solutions, which are more expensive. Still, I would like to see more protection from even in the low-end version."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"For me, it is important to be able to block VPN applications, like Facebook, so I would like to see that included in the next release. With this version, if you want to block or allow a site, you now have to drag all the domains related to this site."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Azure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiOS 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.