We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The user interface (UI) is very, very good."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"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."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"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."
"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."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"The technical support for the solution is very good."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is easy to maintain...From a security point of view, I find Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to be a better product compared to the other solutions in the market."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations."
"It scales linearly with load and no issues."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"The cloud features can be improved."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"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."
"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 usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"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."
"The analytics are weak."
"AWS doesn't integrate well with third-party firewalls."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"Its web interface is a bit outdated, and it needs to be updated. They can also improve the NAT functionality. We have had issues with the NAT setup."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
"The utilization monitoring and GUI have room for improvement."
"Integrative capabilities with other solutions should be addressed."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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