We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Netgate pfSense 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."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."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"The most valuable feature, for instance, is the ease of migrating configurations between different Netgate devices housed in the same box."
"I especially like the VPN part. It works like a charm."
"I use pfSense because it gives me the flexibility to greatly expand basic firewall features."
"What I like about pfSense is that it works well and runs on an inexpensive appliance."
"The main features of this solution are customization and ease to use."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"For everyday tasks, we just get alerts. It's anything that's suspicious, including from our Netgate. So, it's part of how we maintain cybersecurity in our school. This is working alongside our endpoint security solution."
"It's a good solution for end-users. It's pretty easy to work with."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"Its customer service could be better."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"Lacks sufficient security options."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"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 price could be better."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"pfSense could improve by having a sandboxing feature that I have seen in SonicWall. However, maybe it is available I am not aware of it."
"Lacks instructional videos."
"The access control aspect of the product could be improved."
"We are at the moment looking to use it as a proxy service so that we can limit what websites people go and view and that sort of thing. That's an area I've struggled with a little bit at the moment and it could be a bit easier to set up."
"As an open-source solution, there are so many loopholes happening within the product. By design, no one is taking ownership of it, and that is worrisome to me."
"The integration could be improved."
"The main problem with pfSense is that it lacks adequate ransomware protection."
"We would like to see ready-made profiles to cover most users' needs."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Netgate pfSense 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 Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall and Meraki MX, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Sophos UTM, KerioControl and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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