We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the configuration, it is very clear."
"Simple integrations with the domain controllers and other inventories"
"The company is inventive and always adds a lot of great features."
"The most valuable features are the intuitive user interface, ease of use, and reporting."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is its management abilities. Additionally, the updates are very good."
"The IPS system is the best in the field."
"Overall, this is a very simple and very effective firewall, and I am satisfied with it."
"The most valuable feature is availability."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The scalability could be better."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"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."
"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 usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"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."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"Palo Alto doesn't have extended visibility to the end point in their firewalls."
"It is recommended that the Palo Alto Networks K2-Series be implemented step by step for the Panorama. Sometimes we can't overwrite the configurations because it fails."
"The password function of the solution could be improved. Additionally, some of the processes take too long to complete."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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