We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The solution is stable."
"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 provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"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."
"We enjoy the reduction in terms of labor."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"Scalable ATP solution that's quick to set up. It demonstrates good performance and stability."
"WildFire's application encryption is useful."
"Installing this product as a datacenter firewall for segregation and segmentation, and also configuring policies between zones has improved my organization."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"It catches modified signatures of known viruses."
"We get support in the free version."
"The scalability is acceptable."
"Whole team can use the firewall and understand it."
"The scalability could be better."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"There are just some services that aren't available. For example, the Ethernet or point-to-point protocols. They could add these services to their product offering - especially services for ISPs."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"The logs need to be better. They need to be more visible and easier to access."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"The price could be better."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"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."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"Its interface could be better."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The threat intelligence that we receiving in the reporting was not as expected. We were expecting more. Additionally, we should be able to whitelist a specific file based on a variety of attributes."
"When you contact support, there is no guarantee that they will be available to help you tackle the issue that you are facing."
"The automation and responsiveness need improvement."
"The technical support response needs improvement."
"They provide a medium level of technical support."
"The solution can improve its traffic management."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and SonicWall NSa, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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