We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall 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."Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"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."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"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."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Unfortunately in Cisco, only the hardware was good."
"The Firepower IPS, based on Snort technology, has an amazing detection engine and historical analysis capability of files that eases threat investigations a lot."
"The most valuable feature we have found to be the VPN because we use it often."
"We can easily track unauthorized users and see where traffic is going."
"Cisco ASA provides us with very good application visibility and control."
"It's a flexible solution."
"The primary benefits of using Cisco Secure solutions are time-saving, a robust API, and convenience for the security team."
"I haven't had any major problems so I haven't had to open a ticket with technical support."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"It would be a benefit if Fortinet would release a one-stop solution that is better integrated with other products and an automated emergency response system."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"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."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"I would like to see improvement when you create policies on Snort 3 IPS on Cisco Firepower. On Snort 2, it was more like a UI page where you had some multiple choices where you could tweak your config. On Snort 3, the idea is more to build some rules on the text file or JSON file, then push it. So, I would like to see a lot of improvements here."
"I see room for improvement when it comes to integrating all the devices into a central management system. Cisco doesn't provide this, but there are some good products in the market that can provide it."
"The service could use a little more web filtering. If I compare it to Cyberoam, Cyberoam has more the web filtering, so if you want to block a website, it's easier in other solutions than in Cisco."
"It is my understanding that they are in the process of discontinuing this device."
"The operation of the ASA is good but the problem is that whenever you require an upgrade, there are multiple pieces of software that you have to upgrade. Extensive planning is required, because if you upgrade one piece of the software it has to be compatible with the others as well. You always need to check the compatibility metrics."
"In Firepower, there is an ability to search and dig into a search, which is nice. However, I'm not a super fan of the way it scrolls. If you want to look at something live, it's a lot different. You're almost waiting. With the ASDM, where it just flows, you can really see it. The second someone clicks something or does something, you'll see it. The refresh rate on the events in Firepower is not as smooth."
"Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall can be more secure."
"There are always vulnerabilities that come up and there was one in early 2018 but this was patched with software updates."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Meraki MX, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Cisco Secure Firewall report.
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