We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and OPNsense 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."Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"The GUI is good."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The product offers very good security."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Add-on features such as Virus Scanning, ATP, and web filtering add another level of protection and block malware before it gets to the end user."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"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."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"The VPN server feature is the most valuable. It is integrated with Radius and AAA for doing accounting and authentication. Insight view is also an important feature for me at this time. It allows me to assess our network traffic. I also like the firewall feature. The BSD kernel has a packet filter. It is one of the most solid frameworks for firewalls. Its user interface is one of the best interfaces I have used."
"We have been operating here in our lab for several months, and everything appears to be extremely stable."
"It has firewall and VPN capabilities, which are very valuable features."
"The system in general is quite flexible."
"The most valuable feature is the Dual WAN in OPNSense, which offers advanced capabilities."
"URL blocking, Wireguard, Tail Scale, Engine Blocker, and VPN are the most valuable features for me."
"It's open source."
"The solution is good for a basic firewall for a small business or for home use."
"We would like to see better pricing."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more capabilities for troubleshooting VPN connections. For example, I do get some feedback about the current status, but I could use some history and logging of important events. The information is logged in our Syslog server, but I could use that information from the device. If they could provide a GUI to have some more insight on what's going with my VPN would be useful."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"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."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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 analytics are weak."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The interface needs to be simplified. It is not user-friendly."
"The reporting part could be better."
"The ability to set the VPN IP address would be a welcome addition."
"The user interface could be improved, and the DNS section should be more intuitive."
"The solution could be more secure."
"An area for improvement in OPNsense is the hardware, which needs to be updated more frequently. DNS blocking is another good feature I want to be added to the solution. pfSense has a peer-blocking feature that I also want to see in OPNsense."
"The interface of the solution is an area with shortcomings."
"We did not like the fact that you have to configure everything with the graphic user interface. We have used other firewalls, such as FortiGate, that you can configure via code. OPNsense is not easy to integrate. When you are deploying via GitHub or another source repository, this is not possible. That's one thing we didn't like much."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while OPNsense is ranked 3rd in Firewalls with 36 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while OPNsense 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 OPNsense writes "Robust network security and management offering a user-friendly interface, open-source flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, with challenges regarding initial setup and the absence of official support". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas OPNsense is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, Untangle NG Firewall, Sophos UTM and IPFire. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. OPNsense report.
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