We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The firewall features and the routing capability are the most valuable."
"Juniper has the "recovery safety feature", so if you perform a "commit confirmed" and the new configuration disconnects you. then there is no "confirmed" command with X mins (default = 10 mins). It automatically reverts (recovers) to the previous configuration. This is handy for when you do not want to make that trip down range just to reboot a router."
"The ports are really versatile for their application and don't always have to be used for the purpose for which they were made."
"One of Juniper SRX's most valuable features is the site-to-site VPN."
"It's fine, and it's good. It's very stable."
"I have used technical support quite a bit, and they are really good."
"Commit: You can update the whole configuration without affecting the production. The new configuration will be loaded once the command "Commit" is submitted. You can also do a Commit confirmed to automatically roll back to the previous config after X minutes."
"The solution's stability is very good."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The analytics are weak."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"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."
"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."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"I would like to have a better web UI for administration. Juniper could simplify the web UI and make it more compatible with mobile devices."
"Juniper SRX is stable, but it could improve. FortiGate has better stability than Juniper SRX."
"The solution's configurations and syntax are specific and more complicated than other platforms."
"The centralized management platform could be improved."
"Juniper SRX could improve by adding an IPX feature."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The big thing is performance. With all the features turned on it slows down."
"This solution needs to update for "Next Generation" needs."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Juniper SRX Series Firewall is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 86 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Juniper SRX Series Firewall 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 Juniper SRX Series Firewall writes "Highly scalable, user-friendly UI, and easy to maintain". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Sophos UTM and Azure Firewall, whereas Juniper SRX Series Firewall is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Check Point NGFW. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Juniper SRX Series Firewall report.
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