We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Fortinet FortiOS 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 initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"If you have multiple offices, all inter-connected via the internet, you want a single management console through which you can manage all you firewalls. In that case Barracuda could be a good option."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"This is a user friendly solution and offers comprehensive integrations."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"The information security features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"For ten to 12 years it has been quite secure."
"I have found the most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the low maintenance."
"It has a lot of scalability abilities which makes it easy to scale."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"It is stable, but its stability can be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The analytics are weak."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"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."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"The pricing of the product is too high."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"The complexity of the VPNs should be improved."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"You can enable and disable certain modules in it. However, with disabling, nobody can really tell us if that module is disabled."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"Lacks flexibility for different scenario configurations."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiOS 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 FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiOS report.
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