We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Stormshield 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.
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"We have found it to be very reliable and that's why our teams and various users in our company use it as our main firewall every day."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"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 ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"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."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"It is a very stable solution."
"A very robust product."
"It's an easy, straightforward management platform to use."
"Ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"The scalability of the solution is good."
"I can see what traffic is going on. I can easily block any programs from attacks."
"This solution is quick and easy to configure."
"I like that it works fine. Stormshield is a very good solution."
"Our organization's main concern is stability, and this is a stable solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"Its interface could be better."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"This solution has a big problem with web filtering and it needs to be improved."
"Not all the fields are activated yet and we were informed that it will take at least one month."
"A more user-friendly interface would be helpful."
"Stormshield Network Security is quite expensive."
"Improvement is needed in terms of the technical support of the manufacturer."
"It could be better if it were more user-friendly. It's too complicated for us to use it. The price could be better as well."
"This is not a next-generation firewall."
"The filtering configuration could be better. We have some difficulties with the filtering configuration and the filter extension. It's not that easy. It's not that straightforward. In the next release, I would like to see a reporting system. Stormshield doesn't have any tutorials on how to do the configuration and things like that. They just have documentation on the website. If you want to configure, for example, Cisco or Fortinet, you can find tutorials on YouTube. They show you how to configure the features, and so on. In Stormshield, there is nothing on social media or the internet on how to configure different things. The lack of documentation or the lack of material makes it difficult for others to adopt this solution."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Stormshield Network Security is ranked 9th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 16 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Stormshield Network Security 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 Stormshield Network Security writes "Handles monitoring, collection, analysis, and reporting of data in our HQ and branches". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Stormshield Network Security is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Zscaler Internet Access. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Stormshield Network Security report.
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