We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Cisco Secure 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."The solution is extremely reliable."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The solution can scale well."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"When you are sending information to an external email address, Barracuda can warn you when you are trying to access a private or personal email, or trying to upload information and not allow you to do that."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"Scalability is good; the company wants to be able to handle large customers."
"If you have a solution that is creating a script and you need to deploy many implementations, you can create a script in the device and it will be the same for all. After that, you just have to do the fine tuning."
"We chose Cisco because it had the full package that we were looking for."
"If configured, Firepower provides us with application visibility and control."
"With the FMC and the FirePOWERs, the ability to quickly replace a piece of hardware without having to have a network outage is useful. Also, the ability to replace a piece of equipment and deploy the config that the previous piece of equipment had is pretty useful."
"Manageability of Cisco ASA. It has a GUI interface, unlike the most of Cisco IOS. For beginners they can "sneak in" and apply the command and see the actual commands that the GUI launches. In addition, Cisco has the reputation regarding security."
"One thing I like about the product is the logging features, the way it logs, the way it forwards the logs in Syslog."
"Cisco Secure Firewall is robust and reliable."
"The features I've found most valuable are the packet captures and packet traces because they help me debug connections. I like the logs because they help me see what's going on."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"The feedback that I have received is that the performance could be better, and the user experience is not as good compared to a previous solution we used. It could be more user-friendly. Of course, it still works fine for our operations."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The analytics are weak."
"Can be underpowered if you choose to use all available add-on features. Just be careful when sizing your unit. Make sure you take into account what features you will be turning on, and work with your sales rep to get the model that can handle that load."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"In today's world, cyberattacks have become a common occurrence. However, so far, we have not faced any issues with our systems. I hope the situation remains the same in the future. If Cisco introduces even more advanced security measures, it would be beneficial."
"Cisco provides us with application visibility and control, although it's not a complete solution compared to other vendors. Cisco needs to work on the application behavior side of things, in particular when it comes to the behavior of SSL traffic."
"The usability of Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is an issue. The product is still under development, and the user interface is very difficult to deal with."
"I have worked with the new FTD models and they have more features than the ASA line."
"The user interface is too complex for people who are not trained to or certified to engage with the product. The interface should be easier to use."
"A memory leakage issue which literally freeze the nodes (we have an HA environment). The issue is still not solved and the only recommendation from Cisco is to reboot the node."
"For what we use it for, it ends up being the perfect product for us, but it would help if they could expand it into some of the other areas and other use cases working with speeding up and the reliability of the pushes from the policy manager."
"One of the problems that we have had is the solution requires Java to work. This has caused some problems with the application visibility and control. When the Java works, it is good, but Java wasn't a good choice. I don't like the Java implementation. It can be difficult to work with sometimes."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Cisco Secure Firewall is ranked 4th in Firewalls with 404 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cisco Secure Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Firewall writes "Highlights and helps us catch Zero-day vulnerabilities traveling across our network". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Cisco Secure Firewall is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, Sophos XG and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Cisco Secure Firewall report.
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