We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"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 a very stable solution."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"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."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"Juniper supports their products very well."
"The scalability is fine."
"The user interface is good."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"It protects the data behind our switches."
"I like that Juniper SRX is easy to use, scalable, and stable with good performance."
"The most valuable feature is the virtualization because it can be used for customers who are using the mobile data network to request a private connection to a remote site."
"The solution is relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"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."
"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 initial setup is a bit complex."
"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."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"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."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"It was very difficult to deal with and required a lot of support, and the UI is very poor."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"it would be more powerful if Juniper brought out a security product other than the firewall, like anti-spam, endpoint protection, etc. Customers who want to deploy security solutions are not just thinking about firewalls... Juniper should have an end-to-end solution, from the endpoint to the network level."
"It could have features that other products support like blade options and stand-alone endpoint security."
"The GUI needs improvement."
"In terms of other features, I'd like to see a web filter, 10 point control, application control and a DNA filter in the next release."
"The CLI is verbose. You have to say a lot to do a little. I don't like that part of it. Cisco's command syntax seems to be a good bit more concise. When you're trying to get something done, you don't want to have to type a bunch."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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