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."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the APIs. They are the most widely known."
"You can purchase switches and you don't need to do anything with them. You just put in the firewall and the switches get all the policies and rules that you already have in the firewall. With Fortinet, you just connect the FortiSwitch to the Fortinet and that's it."
"The most valuable features are the possibility of having one fabric for switching on security."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"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 interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"This solution has helped our organization by protecting our network from attacks."
"The GUI is easy to understand."
"We can run it on any hardware."
"The scalability is very good, where you can do an HA configuration and then bring in another box, if necessary."
"Centralized administration with multiple services, which allows for execution in several important functionalities of information security."
"Open source and support are valuable. I have community support."
"The solution is very robust."
"I have found the firewall portion for the blocking most valuable."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"There is room for improvement in performance and the support language. The support they're providing right now is from a different country, and in our country, there are people—network admins and IT heads—who don't speak English properly. So Barracuda needs to provide support agents who speak additional languages, such as Bangla."
"Its interface could be better."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The analytics are weak."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"It could use a little bit of improvement in the reporting."
"The interface is not very shiny and attractive."
"The solution requires a lot of administration."
"The integration of pfSense with EPS and EDS could be better. Also, it should be easier to get reports on how many users are connecting simultaneously and how sections connect in real-time."
"There are several levels of firewall configuration such as beginner, advanced, and expert configurations. At each level, it becomes more complex and more tricky to set up the firewall. For example, if you want to install the firewall on your computer system, it would be a lot easier if it just tells you that this is the internet NIC and this is the Wi-Fi NIC."
"The product must provide integration with other solutions."
"The solution could always work at being more secure. It's a good idea to continue to work on security features and capabilities in order to ensure they can keep clients safe."
"It should integrate with LDAP, Active Directory, etc, to improve the way in which the traces and connections of each IP, or user connected through the firewall, are shown."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th 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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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