We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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 most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"I wanted to go to a software-defined WAN and in Barracuda they have a specific protocol called TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture). You can create a master policy over the internet and it allows you to do Quality of Services on top of it. That is really helpful for me."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"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 the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"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 a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"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."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"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."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
Earn 20 points
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with .
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