We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point NGFW 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 main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The performance is good."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Objects search and tracker logs are useful."
"By deploying Check Point, it has made it easier to manage everything from a single interface. The management dashboard and policies are on its single pane of glass."
"While not being cheap, their pricing models are competitive."
"The ease of configuring VPNs can be very useful especially for companies with lots of remote locations."
"The product offers a robust and intuitive experience, catering to the essential needs of users."
"The solution is easy to administer thanks to its dashboards. The monitoring is really useful."
"I was impressed by how easy it was to activate blades and implement them on a security gateway, with the process taking less than five minutes."
"The solution offers a good GUI."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Application management can be improved."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"Some features, like the VPN, antispam, data loss prevention, etc., are managed in an external console. In the future, I'd like all features in the same console, in one place, where we can see and configure all features."
"The documentation could be better."
"The routing rules and some more network settings should be listed on the Check Point Smart Console instead of GAIA Web GUI."
"The price of this product could be improved."
"While the logs are very good and easy to understand, when you want to download these customized logs, they don't have as many features compared to competitive firewalls."
"They need to offer quicker resolution and maintenance during downtime."
"Check Point can improve a little better in their technical services, especially in the Indian market."
"The current reporting capability needs to be parsed and edited to be appreciated by leadership."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point NGFW is ranked 5th in Firewalls with 275 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point NGFW is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Check Point NGFW writes "Good antivirus protection and URL filtering with very good user identification capabilities". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point NGFW is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense and Azure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Check Point NGFW report.
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