We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard 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."FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"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 network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"The solution is stable."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"It was very easy to install the solution, and the architecture meant we didn't have to worry about exceeding the solution's capacity."
"I like how straightforward it is and simple it is to implement in the cloud."
"We have found the overall functionality of the product to be exactly similar to the physical product. The one good advantage is that it is cloud-based and can be deployed either as a part of a scale set or one can shut down the virtual machine and adjust the physical parameters of the virtual machine easily and bring it right back up."
"The solution is easier to manage than an on-premise firewall. It is easy to manage. The use of dynamic objects for these gateways made it easy to create the right rules and the right policies. Integration with Azure is also easy where we have to just add the subnets. In an on-premise setup, we have to add everything from scratch. We can automate a lot of actions."
"The solution could improve to have a DLP feature."
"I like the firewall and the virtual machine. I also like that it's compatible with Amazon Web Services and Azure."
"The solution provides a centralized management console for easy administration and monitoring of security policies and events, making it easy for the security team."
"We find Check Point valuable because they are 100% focused on security. It totally closes the potential vulnerability channel. We can check our mail and our attachments and we can scan everything easily. We get an immediate report about the situation of the attachments. We can discover if the target's security attack was started from phishing, etc. We also enjoy using the additional features that protect our internal customer from targeted attacks."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"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."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"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."
"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."
"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 biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"The challenge mainly revolves around the slower functionality of virtual IP switching in Azure Virtual Network compared to on-premise solutions. On-premise, switching between clusters is faster, taking only a few seconds, while in Azure, it can extend up to five minutes. The downtime is a concern for us."
"The initial setup was a bit complex."
"The cost is relatively high compared to the cost of other products in the market."
"With the incorporation of a lot of AI and machine learning, they can build some sort of a matrix for low-level threats or low-level things that require attention. There can be automation of those tasks so that we don't have to take more time and effort. There should be machine learning to eliminate level-one types of tasks."
"The user interface can be improved."
"CloudGuard Network Security could be improved in the area of upgrading in place."
"At the cost level, the solution is somewhat expensive."
"We have the product deployed on Azure China. One crucial concern is the version limitation; unfortunately, in Azure China, we are restricted to running version R80. Our architecture has a Load Balancer, VMSS CloudGuard, etc. The duplication in this setup prevents the application from seeing the original client IP. This poses a problem for certain applications that require the original IP for login purposes. Although we managed a workaround with a different architecture involving a WAF, it is not as straightforward as the standard Azure setup."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 117 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is rated 8.6. 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 CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Firewall, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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