We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-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."FortiGate's web and URL filtering are unlike any other firewall I've used. The functionality of URL filtering in those solutions is problematic because everything is encrypted, and firewalls can't break that encryption protocol. Fortinet has an SSL proxy, so the encryption is done before the packet ever leaves the FortiGate. The URL filter is definitely one of the most helpful features."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The GUI is good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The performance is good."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"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."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"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."
"Add-on features such as Virus Scanning, ATP, and web filtering add another level of protection and block malware before it gets to the end user."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"It is reliable and the support is very good."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"With the improved visibility we now have, the traffic is being properly monitored, which means that we are better able to manage it. These are improvements that we saw very quickly."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is easy to maintain...From a security point of view, I find Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to be a better product compared to the other solutions in the market."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"The reports are very basic."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The support team for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be more customer friendly."
"If you have another brand of VPN where you have to put an SSL VPN between two devices, Barracuda doesn't support that at a certain point. You can't actually build the VPN between Barracuda and a different device of a different brand."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"We don't know how it will scale once we start putting more load on it."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a complex product to work with."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"We have ran into issues with Palo Alto’s limitations for resolving large IP lists from DNS lookups, as well as the antivirus interfering with App-ID."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"It would be helpful if we had a direct number for the support manager or the supporting engineer. That would be better than having to email every time because there would be less wait."
"The reporting part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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