We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos 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."One of the valuable features is a standardized OS."
"It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware."
"We use a lot of function on the IPS and it works well for us."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The ability to set up remote systems is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"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."
"The GUI is good."
"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."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"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."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is reporting, it is flexible. I can monitor the end user's devices, even when they are not on my network. It has good drill-down capabilities."
"The three most important features for us are web protection, web server protection, and network protection."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"It is not an easy task to protect your web servers from the big bad internet. The Web Server Protection in this solution does it elegantly and, if configured correctly, even hides the server's base system from prying eyes."
"The features that I've known to be most valuable are both the web security features as well as the web firewall capabilities. As a partner of Sophos firewall, we have some clients and they are using Sophos firewall UTM and we are using it as well."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"Its interface could be better."
"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."
"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."
"The analytics are weak."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"The management suite is easy and the agent is easy to develop."
"During initial configuration, I encountered a few issues."
"The solution is not scalable."
"Needs to improve the certificate management (ex. Let's Encrypt support)."
"Sophos customer support could use some improvement."
"The solution's technical support for India needs to be improved."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"I don't really have any notes for improvements."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. 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 UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Stormshield Network Security. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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