We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Zscaler Internet Access 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's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"It is a safe product."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"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."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"It is a very stable solution."
"I like the granularity of the control of all the traffic, including SSL inspection. I also like the fact that the user interface is intuitive. The latencies with Zscaler are minimal compared to those of any other competitor. Other competitors do not really have the global scale that Zscaler has and cannot promise low latencies."
"Zscaler covers all the features needed to replace a VPN or proxy solution. They are good. They've been on the market for 15 years now, so they are mature enough."
"Whether you are in a hotel somewhere, or in Africa, it does not matter. You will get the Zscaler protection presence anywhere."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The policies are very intuitive and easy to configure, with very little possibility of messing things up."
"The data loss prevention feature is the most valuable. It stops our users from inadvertently leaking our customers' data to the Internet or anywhere else it shouldn't go."
"There is no lag in service when accessing the internet."
"The protection is most valuable."
"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."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"This product could be improved with Active directory integration and better handling in IPsec and GRE Tunnels."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"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."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"Another thing that I would like to see is if Zscaler could have a separate product for direct access. I looked at a private access solution, but I understand there's a separate product that isn't integrated with this."
"They should enhance the audit reporting feature."
"One thing that needs to be improved is their presence in China. I'm not sure if that's a Zscaler thing or if it's a problem with all vendors in this space, but it would be nice to have better coverage in China. This concern is a common one for vendors across the board when dealing with the Chinese market."
"Zscaler does not provide dedicated IPs to each customer. Hence, they share a pool of IPs provided by Zscaler. There is a chance of blacklisting these IPs. I also do not like the multi-management portal."
"Zscaler should continue to make the user interface better. They should also improve the backup network and continue to expand it so that it can handle larger numbers of customers."
"If they can also integrate with the multi-factor authentication to prompt users to do another, second-factor authentication, that would be ideal."
"I don't know whether it's Zscaler or not, however, sometimes I can't access my time management. I need to wait and try again a few hours later. Typically, if I let some time pass, I can access it again."
"The reporting functionality could be a bit easier to use. There is a reporting function, but it's quite hard to do any good reporting, from a user-management perspective. For example, if a department manager wants to know how his department is using the web, there is a way to get the data, but it's quite cumbersome to get it and show it well. And that's true for comparing between departments."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Zscaler Internet Access is ranked 2nd in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 46 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Internet Access is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Internet Access writes "Provides integrated CASB and file sandboxing but could be less expensive ". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Zscaler Internet Access is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Appgate SDP. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Zscaler Internet Access report.
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