We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Fortigate represents a really scalable way of delivering perimeter network security, some level of layer 7 security, WAF, and also a way to create a meshed ADVPN solution."
"The GUI is good."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"It's very easy to set up, even for more junior developers."
"It's a very simple solution to manage."
"The combination of SD-WAN and VPN capabilities is the most valuable feature."
"We like FortiGate-VM's IPS features and its ability to create multiple virtual firewalls."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are its flexibility and scalability. This solution is available as a license, which allows us to activate it based on the specific needs of the customer. This gives us and the customer a great deal of versatility and customization options."
"The solution is stable."
"The policies are very valuable. They allow me to secure and manage future traffic effectively."
"The thing that I like the most is that they're very willing to work with us to resolve issues that they haven't taken care of before in their product."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"I would like Fortinet to add more automation to FortiGate."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The price could be better."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"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."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"It would be useful to have integration with different reporting tools. This is something we are sorely missing. It would be a plus to have reporting integrations. It would be good to have more integration with the identity suites, such as Office 365 and Azure Active Directory, of different providers that we use. Integrations are already available, but it would be nice to have some more advanced options."
"Capacity-wise, I think the solution's log storage area is something that needs to be increased since, by default, it stores logs for only seven days."
"One thing that can be better is added automation. And, on top of that, enhanced security when it comes to the automation itself."
"The product may not be as robust as Palo Alto. However, unless you are a big bank, you probably won't need it to be."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"It needs an Application Inspection."
"We'd like to have more customization and easier customization of policies."
"We have encountered certain issues with the bandwidth in respect of the security layer."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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 Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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