"The content filtering is good."
"Provides good integrations and reporting."
"A good intrusion prevention system and filtering."
"The feature set is fine and is rarely a problem."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"The Firepower+ISE+AMP for endpoint integration is something that really stands it out with other vendor solutions. They have something called pxGrid and i think it is already endorsed by IETF. This allows all devices on the network to communicate."
"I like the firewall features, Snort, and the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integrations and IPS throughput."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"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."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"The classic features such as content inspection, content protection, and the application-level firewall, are the most important."
"Content protection, content inspection, and the application level firewall."
"The solution has good customization abilities and plenty of features."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Some of the terminologies were more familiar to me than it was when I first encountered Cisco."
"pfSense is a nice product, and I find that there's a lot of information out there. There are some good tutorials on YouTube and other websites with helpful information."
"It is a better firewall than others and it has better features."
"At our peak time, we have reached more than 5,000 concurrent connections."
"In a future release, it would be ideal if they could offer an open interface to other security products so that we could easily connect to our own open industry standard."
"The configuration in Firepower Management Center is very slow. Deployment takes two to three minutes. You spend a lot of time on modifications. Whereas, in FortiGate, you press a button, and it takes one second."
"The price and SD-WAN capabilities are the areas that need improvement."
"The central management tool is not comfortable to use. You need to have a specific skill set. This is an important improvement for management because I would like to log into Firepower, see the dashboard, and generate a real-time report, then I question my team."
"There is limited data storage on the appliance itself. So, you need to ship it out elsewhere in order for you to store it. The only point of consideration is around that area, basically limited storage on the machine and appliance. Consider logging it elsewhere or pushing it out to a SIEM to get better controls and manipulation over the data to generate additional metrics and visibility."
"An area of improvement for this solution is the console visualization."
"Web filtering needs improvement because sometimes the URL is miscategorized."
"On the VPN side, Firepower could be better. It needs more monitoring on VPNs. Right now, it's not that good. You can set up a VPN in Firepower, but you can't monitor it."
"The analytics are weak."
"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."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"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."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"It needs to be more secure."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"I would like to see different graphs available in the reporting."
"We had training from an advisor for the configuring of this solution and it was not difficult. However, if we were not trained it would have been not as easy."
"They could improve their commercial stance and be more agile when it comes to the commercial pricing of enterprise deals."
"The integration could be improved."
"More documentation would be great, especially on new features because sometimes, when new features come out, you don't get to understand them right off the bat. You have to really spend a lot of time understanding them. So, more documentation would be awesome."
"It would be great to add more to security."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 5 reviews while pfSense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 63 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "My network has never been interrupted or experienced a denial of service". On the other hand, the top reviewer of pfSense writes "Feature-rich, well documented, and there is good support available online". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, Azure Firewall, Cisco ASA Firewall and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. pfSense report.
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