We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"It performs very well."
"The SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The technical support is great."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"I think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Backup can be improved."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"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 features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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 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."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while McAfee StoneGate [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 McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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