We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos UTM 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."The customization potential is quite impressive."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"It's very easy to set up, it's very easy to make policies and, for an organization, that means you don't need IT expert in firewalls. You just need to have somebody who knows a little bit of IT, and that's it. With other products, you need someone with a "Masters" degree in firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the SD-WAN and their IP4 policy."
"The CLI is robust and powerful, enabling rapid, consistent changes via SSH."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"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."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"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 ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"It does not take much effort or thinking to understand how it works."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the firewall application and application control."
"The solution is stable."
"It works well without any maintenance. So far, it has worked pretty well regardless of the traffic."
"I like the web filtering options."
"It has helped by identifying threats within the company. If there are computers or servers that are compromised, then we are able to identify them right away in the system."
"Sophos has a single pane of glass which allows me to manage all my VPCs from a single instance, managing all my firewall from one place."
"Installing Sophos UTM is straightforward. The deployment itself doesn't take long, but you have to spend some time planning and waiting for the hardware to be delivered."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"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 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."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"The price could be better."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"They could reduce the price."
"It is a pretty straightforward setup, but it should be some sort of documentation that takes you step-by-step to help set it up for your VPC."
"We'd like to see them offer their services on mobile devices like tablets. I'm not sure if that's an option or not."
"An area for improvement in Sophos UTM is load balancing because my company cannot use it currently. If Sophos could release a new configuration for the load balancing feature to work for my company, that would be great."
"Support for IKEv2 is needed in this solution."
"I would like this solution to support ICAP. Also, they no longer support on-premises management, and are forcing clients to use centralized management via the cloud, which I don't agree with."
"Last year, Sophos had some major internal management changes that negatively impacted their support."
"The application control is really bad. It needs a lot of enhancements. The traffic shaping and bandwidth control, and application control need a lot of work."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos UTM 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 Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Stormshield Network Security. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos UTM report.
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