We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point Power-1 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"The VPN allows users to connect remotely and securely."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve the integration with Active Directory. Additionally, I would like to have a Cloud Controller, such as they do in the Cisco Meraki solution."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"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 experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"Multi-factor authentication would have been a plus in security at the time."
Earn 20 points
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point Power-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 2 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is rated 8.0. 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 Power-1 [EOL] writes "Good intrusion prevention, firewall, and VPN capabilities". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point Power-1 [EOL] is most compared with .
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