We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sangfor NGAF 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."FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"We are using the FortiGate 100D series. VPN, firewall, anti-malware, OTM, and intrusion prevention are useful features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"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."
"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 most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"The solution is stable."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"Technical support is very good."
"It is a stable solution."
"The absolute best part of Sangfor NGAF is their support. It's a 24/7 support channel, and the last time I requested their assistance I got a reply within three minutes. They helped solve the problem immediately."
"Sangfor NGAF specializes in ransomware detection and helps to protect our network from ransomware threats and malware."
"SSL VPN is the best feature."
"We can utilize our own network rather than paying for a private one."
"So far, the performance and reliability of the product have supported our company's critical network traffic."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
"The support system could be improved."
"It needs more available central management."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"The price could be better."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"Its interface could be better."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in dependency on certain infrastructure, like the DNS dependency on the current DNS server that the company has. It should be standalone. It should not depend on any other DNS server."
"An area of improvement for Sangfor NGAF could be in the field of reporting and logging."
"Sangfor could improve their interface capacity on the 5100 series model and upgrade their hardware from one gig to 10 gig. This would improve the overall throughput."
"Sangfor could improve by providing better real-time reporting, as the current reports don't offer the level of detail we need, especially for runtime insights."
"The setup phase is quite complex."
"The solution has too many bugs and these slow down the implementation."
"The firewall system needs gradual improvements because there are more threats and challenges every day."
"It does not offer any recommendations on how to mitigate or control attacks."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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