We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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."Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"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."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The GUI is good."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"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."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"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."
"It is very easy to use."
"There are plenty of features available, such as Full Guard and WAN."
"The product is easy to maintain."
"The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"I'm more inclined towards the conventional firewall. So for me, I'm more geared towards the standard firewall type functionalities as well as the web application firewall because that seems to work fine."
"Technical support is excellent."
"SD-WAN and IPSec features are valuable to me."
"I find Sophos Cyberoam UTM very good. I like the feature of being able to block off Mac IDs that host users. For example, you have a Mac or Windows laptop and you created a hotspot. Other devices like mobiles and tablets e.g. iPads connected to that hotspot. We can block those devices that connected to the hotspot we created, only through Sophos. It's a good feature we didn't find in other UTMs."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The user interface could be improved."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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 initial setup is a bit complex."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"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 configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"I would like to see real-time alerts on traffic insights."
"Cyberoam configuration is done through the browser, which is one of the places that viruses spread."
"The price is obviously a more sensitive area to focus on."
"Sometimes, during part of the configuration, if you don't have a lot of technical knowledge, then you may struggle a bit to configure it."
"It is not a scalable product. This is because if you want to increase the capacity of the solution, then you have to change the device."
"Sophos Cyberoam UTM has room for improvement in specific rules-based objects and redesign. The solution also needs to improve in adding rules and policies, including renewing and finding policies."
"The solution had a feature to import users from a CSV file. However, the latest version does not have that option."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos Cyberoam UTM 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 Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Sophos XG. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos Cyberoam UTM report.
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