We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-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."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."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"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."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"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."
"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."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"The most valuable feature is that you can launch it in a very short time. You don't have to wait for the hardware to arrive and get it staged and installed. From that perspective, it is easy to launch. It is also scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its stability, ease of implementation, ease of operation, and security."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"We now know a lot more detail about what our users are doing on the network."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The analytics are weak."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"The user-friendliness of the UI could be improved."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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