We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Netgate pfSense 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 technical support in our region is excellent."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"The most valuable features are that it is very simple to configure and to manage."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"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 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."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"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."
"An incomparable stability is achieved with other firewall systems."
"pfSense allows us to spread the hours of connection and do the filtering on the pfSense site."
"The most valuable feature, for instance, is the ease of migrating configurations between different Netgate devices housed in the same box."
"The features I have found best are ease of use, GUI, and performance."
"Is good at blocking IP addresses."
"I am happy with the EPLS, the radius, and I am happy with the captive portal."
"I like pfSense's reports and how I can control access to the policies on the firewall."
"Easy to deploy and easy to use."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in performance and the support language. The support they're providing right now is from a different country, and in our country, there are people—network admins and IT heads—who don't speak English properly. So Barracuda needs to provide support agents who speak additional languages, such as Bangla."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"I'd like to find something in pfSense that is more specific to URL filtering. We have customers who would like to filter their web traffic. They would like to be able to say to their employees, "You can surf the web, but you cannot get access to Facebook or other social media," or "You can surf the web, but you're not allowed to gamble or watch porn on the web." My technicians say that doing this kind of stuff with pfSense nowadays is not easy. They can implement some filters using IP addresses but not by using the names of the domains and categories. So, we are not able to exclude some categories from the allowed traffic, such as porn, gambling, etc. To do that, we have to use another product and another web filter that uses DNS. I know that there are some third-party products that could work with pfSense, but I'd like the native pfSense solution to do that."
"Ease of use is a problem for a user who is unfamiliar with this product because, in the interface, everything has to be set manually."
"The solution could be more user-friendly, and the graphical interface needs some work so that someone without an IT background can use the application. I would like the ability to manage the on-premise appliance from the cloud. When I'm not in the office, it would be great to connect to the pfSense server and administer the network remotely."
"They could improve their commercial stance and be more agile when it comes to the commercial pricing of enterprise deals."
"Layer 7 advanced firewall features are not included in the solution."
"Their support could be better in terms of the response time."
"In terms of areas of improvement, the interface seemed like it had a lot. The GUI interface that I had gotten into was rather elaborate. I don't know if they could zero in on some markets and potentially for small, medium businesses specifically, give them a stripped-down version of the GUI for pfSense."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Netgate pfSense 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 Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall and Meraki MX, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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