We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"The solution is stable."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was straightforward."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"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."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The IPS system is the best in the field."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"Palo Alto has better and finer controls than, say, Cisco or Check Point."
"We've found the solution offers us good stability."
"As long as the solution is kept updated, it's pretty stable."
"The most valuable features are the virtualization of the firewall and the antivirus."
"It caters to typical use cases across various technologies. MDR and XDR, for example, focus on user and endpoint protection. It's pretty straightforward."
"The captive portal could be improved."
"They've become quite expensive."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"Its interface 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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"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 price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"It would be really helpful to have dashboards that provide information on IOC blockings such as where and how many. It will also be good to know how many hashing files have been reported. It would also be nice to have easy access to this information. Otherwise, it's a painful, manual task."
"We had some issues with upgrading in the past. They could make the process easier."
"Some users do not accept cloud-based data processing. They prefer on-premises functionality, especially for advanced threat analysis. While the general trend is moving towards cloud, specific customer needs should be considered. Perhaps certain functionalities, particularly in advanced threat analysis, could be offered as an on-premises option for those clients."
"Its networking features could be better."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"There are a lot of bugs in this solution."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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