We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"The solution has very good threat and content filtering switches."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"The tool is a nice product and easy to handle. The software's user interface is also good. You can easily implement remote access in the solution."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is built automatically."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"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."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"Sometimes you do need to know some CLI commands, so it's a bit harder for technicians or new people that don't know it."
"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."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"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."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"Its interface could be better."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while McAfee StoneGate [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 StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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