We performed a comparison between Azure Firewall and Barracuda CloudGen 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 user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is security. They are known for efficiency and are on the top of Gartner Quadrant reviews. Fortinet FortiGate has an easy-to-use platform with a good graphical interface. The configuration is simple and the solution provides an overall good layer of security."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"One of the best features is that it natively integrates with Azure Services and tools. When you have a third-party offering, that is not the case. But Azure Firewall provides a comprehensive and seamless security solution for your Azure resources."
"Among the most valuable features are the DDoS protection that protects your virtual machines, the threat intelligence, and traffic filtering."
"In terms of the reporting, it's beautiful. It integrates with Azure monitoring and with Azure policies. That piece is a big help. You can set governing policies and you can use the application firewall, as well as the Azure Firewall, to enforce those policies."
"The most valuable feature is threat intelligence. It is based on filtering and can identify multiple threats."
"Great security and connectivity."
"The solution is very stable. When comparing it to other environments, it's actually quite impressive."
"We secure the entry point to the virtual data center with the firewall."
"One of the notable advantages of Azure Firewall is its user-friendly interface, which closely resembles or shares similarities with other Azure components."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"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."
"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."
"It is a very stable solution."
"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."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"In the future, I would like to see improvements made to cloud-based management."
"The solution is very expensive."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"The solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"We find it's different implementing it region-to-region. It might help if it was universal across all regions."
"The tool needs to improve the onboarding and transition process for on-prem users."
"It needs a lot of improvement, especially on intruder detection. They are working hard on that."
"It has fewer features than you can get from other firewalls, like anti-spam and anti-phishing. Those kinds of things are not included. It only includes IDS and IDB."
"The solution should incorporate features similar to competitors like split tunneling."
"For larger enterprises, they need to adjust the scalability."
"There is room for further integration of AI into the system."
"It is a cloud service, but the lending speed for each region is not always the same. For example, in China, the speed is slow. They need to think about how to make sure that the service pace or speed is always the same in all regions. It would be a great improvement if they can provide the same pace worldwide."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
Azure Firewall is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 33 reviews while Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews. Azure Firewall is rated 7.2, while Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Azure Firewall writes "Easy to use and configure but could be more robust". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". Azure Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Check Point NGFW, whereas Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire. See our Azure Firewall vs. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall report.
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