We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Sophos XG 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."LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The product offers very good security."
"The web filtering feature and the intrusion protection system are the most valuable. It is a resilient appliance. I never had an issue with it in terms of any security breaches."
"Advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless and simple integration into a large network."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"It blocks the vulnerabilities that can negatively impact us."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"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."
"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."
"Sophos CG is cost-effective, which makes it really suitable for SMB. If you want basic security and more embedded features, go with Sophos XG."
"I have found the solution easy to use and fully integrated."
"The cloud-based interface makes it easy to manage."
"The solution is very easy to use and straightforward."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"We've deployed quite a number for our users and our customers, and the feedback is quite positive in terms of management and also administration."
"I like the fact that it can self remove malware and do updates on the cloud via Sophos Central."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having better visibility. Palo Alto has better visibility."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"When you do any commit, it locks your next access. If you are making a change to the device, from the security standpoint it's fine, but from the admin side it's not good. When you make changes, after each and every one it becomes locked."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"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."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"The security of Sophos XG could be improved."
"All of the options should be available when I renew my subscription for the year. As it is now, there are some limitations."
"While it is possible to configure between two of the solution's devices in the same model, the high available usually fails."
"Content filtering could be more effective and efficient."
"There's an IP address delivery for our VPN client and a limited range of IP addresses. So this is a problem in the latest firmware release, but rather than using homework scenarios, we need a lot of VPN clients."
"There could be some room for improvement in its pricing since my clients usually feel like the product is on the expensive side."
"Lacks improved throughput performance in a box."
"While it is a secure solution, I believe it could be improved."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Sophos XG is ranked 7th in Firewalls with 192 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Sophos XG 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 Sophos XG writes "Easy to use and deploy with an improved pricing structure in place". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Sophos XG is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XGS, SonicWall TZ and Sophos UTM. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Sophos XG report.
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