We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox 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 customization potential is quite impressive."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The GUI is good."
"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."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the 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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"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."
"The set up was quite straightforward and we handled it in-house. It took a few hours to deploy the product."
"WatchGuard Firebox is easy to configure and has a nice user interface."
"WatchGuard Firebox's two-factor authentication feature is particularly useful and provides an added layer of protection."
"I could still keep the data rates really high, up near the two gigahertz data speeds, without compromise on the security perimeters being acted simultaneously."
"The Dimension control, the one-spot reporting and control, has been nice. It's been easy to go in and make sure people are doing what they're supposed to be doing and that only the right stuff is getting in."
"The client is easy to use and stable"
"It protects me against malicious websites, as well as malicious downloads, as a perimeter anti-virus. I've also seen it blocking a lot of pings and different probes."
"One of the most valuable features is the Geolocation. Because we aren't a multinational corporation, it allows me to look at things which might be suspicious to make sure that they are legitimate transactions rather than people sniffing around the network."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"The reports are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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 a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"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."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The software in it could be a bit more friendly for an amateur user. I look at it and don't understand what half the stuff is. Looking at the interface, it is all mumbo-jumbo to me. It's not a simple interface. You have to be an IT guy to understand it. It is not for your average person to use, then walk away from it. It is much more entailed."
"The VPN aspect of the WatchGuard Firebox is an area that could potentially benefit from improvement. We encountered difficulties while attempting to integrate Windows 11 laptops into the system, which resulted in unreliable connections. After some research, we discovered that this was primarily due to compatibility issues with Windows 11 and required a patch. However, it was still a challenge as it seemed that even when we tried to keep the laptops on Windows 10, they still exhibited the same issues as Windows 11 machines. Despite WatchGuard attributing the problem to Microsoft, we were eventually able to find a solution and all the machines are now functioning seamlessly."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"I would like to see more simplified management of the firewall... It's a complicated system to use."
"We bought Firebox four or five years ago, and with the first version I had to reboot it every two or three months for no apparent reason. We upgraded last year to the M370 and it's been running, but it is rebooting from time to time. I don't know why."
"Some of the configuration options are somewhat confusing."
"One other shortcoming is that there is no backup for it. We really haven't figured out how we might solve that problem. We may want to put a duplicate in... With WatchGuard, we just have the one box. If that were to fail, we'd probably be really hurting."
"Reporting is something you've got to set up separately. It's one of those things that you've got to put some time into. One of the options is to set up a local report server, which is what I did. It's not great. It's okay... Some of the stuff is a little complicated to get up and running. Once you do, it becomes very user-friendly and easy to work with, but I find there are some implementation headaches with some of their stuff."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while WatchGuard Firebox is ranked 13th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while WatchGuard Firebox 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 WatchGuard Firebox writes "Offers a streamlined deployment, intuitive interface and robust security features". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and SonicWall TZ, whereas WatchGuard Firebox is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, SonicWall TZ and Meraki MX. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. WatchGuard Firebox report.
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