We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos UTM 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 most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"It is easy to use. We chose this product for the possibility to have virtual domains (VDOMs). We are building another company in the group, and we would like to split the firewalling rules and policies between these two companies. Each company would be able to manage its own policies and security rules, which is an advantage of Fortinet FortiGate. We can define VDOMs, and every company can manage its own VDOM as if it has its own physical firewall, but in fact, we would be using the same physical appliance because we are also using the same internet lines. So, it allows us to reuse the existing resources without the disadvantage of having to compromise on policies and security. Each company can choose its own way of working."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"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 base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"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."
"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."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"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."
"Sophos UTM is the simplest of these products to setup."
"It is a stable product... I rate the solution's technical support a nine out of ten...The initial setup is quite easy because they have all the information on their website."
"The most valuable feature of Sophos UTM is the endpoint protection feature."
"Configuration could not be made any easier."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"The packet filtering's great. You get out what you put into it. It works great as long as you know your security and configure everything adequately. If you just pop one in and it's not configured, then it's basically wide open. It kind of depends on the admin skill, but it's an excellent product."
"The most valuable features of Sophos UTM are the ease of use, it is very user-friendly. You can understand what they implement in the new firmware, and it's easy to manage the firewalls."
"With over 150 firewalls in our portal, management and monitoring have never been easier."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"We had some problems with the configuration. They had provided a CloudFormation template, and we had to go several rounds to make it work."
"The solution needs to do better at covering mobile devices, although they may have an integrated solution for that purpose."
"The reporting could be a lot better."
"The documentation during the AWS integration was a little fuzzy on getting it to work with how the whole public exposure versus private exposure, then routing some of the traffic."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"Stay away from the wireless models, since you cannot put them in HA. They start to give you some weird issues once you start getting into multiple SSIDs and networks."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"I would like to see Sophos UTM add support for all the new threat-detection technologies and the ability to respond to novel security threats that come along every day."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Stormshield Network Security. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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