We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Security and Filtering and SonicWall CFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about TitanHQ, Forcepoint, Barracuda Networks and others in Web Content Filtering."The solution is very simple to use and implement."
"The support is fantastic."
"The most valuable features are Barracuda's policies for filtering various websites according to the organization's policies and blocking traffic for any P2P application like torrents."
"I like that it does a lot of malicious content and is easy to manage. There are a lot of checkboxes, and you can add your own URLs or get it preconfigured."
"The ease of use. It's pretty easy to use and navigate the UI... to either block or whitelist a web address."
"I have found the most valuable the ability to have insight into our web traffic and control its flow."
"It is straightforward to deploy and manage."
"It is very stable."
"It doesn't allow adding DNS filtering for off-site clients."
"The AD agent is an issue which my customers and I have encountered. Sometimes it refuses to start and, only as time goes by, does it become apparent that things are not working the way they should."
"Considering other tier-one applications, like Next-Generation Firewall, they also have web security in-built within their appliances or applications. Barracuda is still lagging behind in features like that, so they need to update if they want to be in the top spot."
"Barracuda products are cheap."
"Our problem is that it's a virtual appliance and we're moving to a new platform and, for whatever reason, we can't move it as it is... When we were migrating our virtual machines from the old to the new system, we determined rather quickly that it wouldn't migrate over."
"Considering other tier-one applications, like Next-Generation Firewall, they also have web security in-built within their appliances or applications. Barracuda is still lagging behind in features like that, so they need to update if they want to be in the top spot."
"This solution is substantially more expensive than the competitors out there, including Titan HQ or Limecast."
"The solution’s customer support should be improved."
"Malware, scanning, capture, and integration should be included with the content filtering."
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Barracuda Web Security and Filtering is ranked 3rd in Web Content Filtering with 10 reviews while SonicWall CFS is ranked 5th in Web Content Filtering. Barracuda Web Security and Filtering is rated 7.6, while SonicWall CFS is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda Web Security and Filtering writes "It comes with useful policy creation features but needs to improve its outdated tech and poor support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall CFS writes "Reliable content filtering but need more traffic control". Barracuda Web Security and Filtering is most compared with Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway and TitanHQ WebTitan, whereas SonicWall CFS is most compared with .
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