We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."The solution is stable."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"The solution is stable."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"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's great for handling complex items."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"It is a complete package, and it has complete offerings. It fit the needs, and our customer is happy with it."
"Operations have been flawless."
"I like the visibility and monitoring features because they're easy to use to monitor traffic. Features like geo-blocking and more have AI, and we're currently using all of it. But for now, we're only using geo-blocking, and we're able to block traffic from different countries. I also like that it's highly responsive. VM04 is also very powerful."
"Fortinet-VM is more scalable than the hardware version. If you're using an appliance, there are limitations in terms of hardware specs. So if you want a more scalable firewall, you can get a VM and install it on a high-end server."
"The product is quite user-friendly so we didn't have a lot of issues that needed to be addressed."
"I've found the UTM features and the SD-WAN to be most valuable."
"The technical support is very good."
"The dashboards are a good feature."
"The UI could be improved."
"The reports are very basic."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The analytics are weak."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"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."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The solution should provide more useful GUI features."
"We face some issues with the IPsec connection during replication."
"The user interface (UI) and the performance of interface both need improvement."
"Improvements are needed for the responsive UI and JIT traffic reporting."
"We have lost some information and we do not know how that happened through the solution. So that needs improvement."
"Compatibility and integration with other products or vendors such as Cisco SD-WAN products need improvement."
"Integration could be better. Whatever devices I'm using with FortiGate are all compatible. The access points and switches are also FortiGate, so I can easily integrate them. But it would be better if we could embed other devices as well. There are compatibility issues with other brands, and we need that. We can only integrate universal brands with FortiGate. The initial setup could also be easier."
"The price model is not transparent by any means and should be made more clear. What's included in the packages is often not very obvious."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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