We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The solution can scale well."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN, as it allows us to connect and it separates this product from other firewalls."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"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."
"Technical support has been good."
"The product offers fairly good centralized administration and monitoring with decent capabilities that allow the administrator to have relevent control over devices."
"Its most outstanding feature is content filtering."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The reports are very basic."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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 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."
"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 analytics are weak."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The reporting from the file or reporting from mobile access needs improvement. The solution, in general, could use better reporting tools."
"Every time we made a change, the policy took about three minutes to apply, and obviously, when there were emergency changes or changes that we needed that were escalated, they were not modified very, very quickly."
"It should have excellent integration with the other security tools."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls with 3 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 VPN-1 [EOL] writes "Easy to install with good threat detection and helpful VPN capabilities". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Azure Firewall, whereas Check Point VPN-1 [EOL] is most compared with .
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