We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Forescout Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IoT Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a very stable solution."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is built automatically."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"The stability is amazing for the Forescout Platform. We have been using Forescout for four years, and no one complained about the stability."
"The most valuable feature is the blocking of USB devices."
"The standout strength of this solution lies in its unique capability to effectively manage unmanaged switches."
"The 802.1X compliance authentication feature of this solution is very good."
"Forescout Platform's best feature is plug-in integration."
"You can quickly filter your view of devices and zero in on the ones you want using a variety of tools, such as what subnet it is on or what it has been classified as."
"Forescout CounterACT has allowed us to better open our access and control wireless access globally from our HQ. This allows us to monitor the network access for every office globally. This has improved overall security, reducing risk and opening up the opportunity to provide greater end user flexibility."
"We use the Forescout Platform for device visibility and control in our network. It's very helpful for tracking malicious or unusual activity. We use it to track which ports are open, which machines are running specific services, and to identify vulnerabilities. For example, there was a vulnerability related to SMB, and we could use the product to determine which machines inside our organization were allowing SMB traffic."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"The price could be better."
"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."
"I believe that the overall user experience has not always been preferable."
"The installation is not secure because it takes high admin privileges."
"The solution's customer support is bad and should be improved."
"Forescout Platform could improve the vulnerability management as well as the control on the endpoint, which needs to be connected to my network."
"Search - needs boolean functionality (or pseudo operand now working)."
"The solution could always improve by adding more features to make it more robust."
"Although Forescout manages endpoints and network devices, there is no capability for user management."
"Can be expensive if it's only being used for one feature."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 5th in IoT Security with 35 reviews while Forescout Platform is ranked 1st in IoT Security with 69 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Forescout Platform 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 Forescout Platform writes "We can go granular on each endpoint, quarantine non-compliant machines, and target vulnerabilities through scripting". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Forescout Platform is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Aruba ClearPass, Fortinet FortiNAC, Nozomi Networks and Armis. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Forescout Platform report.
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