We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Zscaler Cloud Firewall 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."It's a flexible solution."
"The dashboard is the most important thing. It provides good visibility and makes management easy. Firepower also provides us with good application visibility and control."
"AnyConnect has been very helpful, along with the ability to use LDAP for authentication."
"The most valuable feature would be ASDM. The ability to go in, visualize and see the world base in a clear and consistent manner is very powerful."
"IPS and Snort are very important because they also differentiate Cisco from other vendors and competitors."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"When it comes to the integration among Cisco tools, we find it easy. It's a very practical integration with other components as well."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"The solution is stable."
"It's great for handling complex items."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also 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."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"Includes advanced tech protection."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It helps a lot of companies to reduce their downtime. Also, It helps businesses in terms of being secured and protected from any threats."
"Most of the features that Zscaler has to offer, we will deploy."
"The scalability is okay. We have around 2200 people using this solution."
"I like the ease of deployment and its flexibility. We don't need to deal with license, quotes, procurement, delivery, and installation. Everything is software-based, and it's very easy to operate."
"The solution is scalable."
"A feature that would allow me to load balance among multiple ISPs, especially since we have deployed it as a perimeter firewall, would be a great addition."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the UTM part should be more integrated for one price, because if you buy ASA from Cisco, you need to buy another contract service from Cisco as a filter for the dictionary of attacks. In Fortinet, you buy a firewall and you have it all."
"It would be good if Cisco made sure that the solution supports all routing protocols. Sometimes it doesn't."
"Cisco Firepower NGFW Firewall can be more secure."
"Comparing Cisco solution to others, it is expensive, it would be better for it to be cheaper."
"The graphical interface could be improved. From what I have seen, Fortinet, for example, has a nicer GUI."
"I'm not a big fan of the FDM (Firepower Device Manager) that comes with Firepower. I found out that you need to use the Firepower Management Center, the FMC, to manage the firewalls a lot better. You can get a lot more granular with the configuration in the FMC, versus the FDM that comes out-of-the-box with it. FDM is like Firepower for dummies."
"Third-party integrations could be improved."
"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."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"Data Leak Prevention is only for web filtering and there is no protection for email."
"It would be better if they improved their policy, package visibility, and flexibility while we're creating rules for inspection. It could also be cheaper or more things could be included in the basic package. In the next release, I would like better coverage in the Asia Pacific region and better quality of service."
"Certain criteria need to be met if you want to scale this solution."
"It would be nice to have some sort of a form factor, a physical form factor perhaps, or virtual machine that you could install on devices or on a cloud, and have some cloud computing."
"There are some areas it could improve when it comes to blocking, we have to block some things manually. For example, if we block a top-level domain we have seen that the new IPs come through, the IPs are not blocked. There should be some more granular way of doing it. My only request is if you're blocking something at a top level, the sub-level sub-domains and all those other IPs should be blocked too automatically."
"We are having some issues with internet access being denied when organizational ID-based policies change. For example, a lower level employee ends up getting the same level of access as that of a higher level employee."
"The product could improve its integration with some legacy systems."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 6 reviews while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is ranked 23rd in Firewalls with 7 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 7.8, while Zscaler Cloud Firewall is rated 7.8. 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 Zscaler Cloud Firewall writes "Flexible licensing with good performance and support". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, pfSense, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Azure Firewall and Sophos XG, whereas Zscaler Cloud Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Azure Firewall, Check Point NGFW, pfSense and Sophos XG. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Zscaler Cloud Firewall report.
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