We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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."Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"Good anti-malware and web filtering features."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"The most valuable features are the VPN Blade, IPS Blade, the URL filtering, and the Applications Control Blade."
"What's most valuable to me is that it's a contiguous solution that aligns well with the components that we've relied on and trusted from a traditional hardware, firewall, and unified threat management system. My engineers and analysts don't have to learn another platform. We have already entrusted our security controls to Check Point for perimeter and physical security, and now we can do so at the virtual layer as well, which is key to us."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is the increased mail protection including spam."
"The VPN features in CloudGuard Network Security have been the most valuable for us."
"SSL/TLS traffic inspection features are used for advanced threat prevention against secure SSL traffic."
"I like how straightforward it is and simple it is to implement in the cloud."
"The tool's deployment is rapid. Its dashboard is also useful. It's easy to deploy both on-premises and in Azure. In an office with VMware running, deployment is a simple process. Similarly, in Azure, deployment is easy and scalable. Adding more CPUs is a straightforward task – just shut it down, modify the security, and restart. This ease of use translates into cost and resource savings, and faster deployment times."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to run the gateways as virtual machines in our virtual data center. The tool protects the virtual data centers."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The scalability could be better."
"Lacks training for new features."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"Fortinet doesn't provide multiple virtual firewalls which would facilitate end users and customers."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"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."
"Its interface could be better."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"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."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"There is room for improvement, especially concerning the integration with the management center. It would be beneficial if tasks that currently require scripts could be performed directly from the GUI."
"It needs to cover additional kinds of infrastructure, like containers and serverless options. It's somewhat limited in that area."
"Clustering in Azure is a bit different, not using the Check Point cluster but relying on load balancing. It's not as instant as I'm used to; in Azure, it might take around half a minute to a minute, and during this time, services could be down. The delay is attributed to Azure using its load balancing mechanisms instead of the Check Point cluster."
"Check Point CloudGuard Network Security should give productive reports as per business requirements. It needs to improve support since the time-limit extended beyond a day. It should include more seamless API integrations."
"It is a very expensive program and there are additional costs despite the standard licensing fees."
"Check Point support, beyond CloudGuard, does need some improvement."
"I want the upgrades of their CloudGuard solution to major versions to be easier. We have had a few small hiccups. They have different types of cloud clusters called Geo Clusters, and those just cannot be upgraded past a certain point, which is a hurdle that we are currently experiencing."
"Check Point Virtual Systems is a complete solution, but pricing can be better."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 117 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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 Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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