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."Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support."
"The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The solution is stable."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"It is a very stable solution."
"Enables us to define user application-level access, so our customers can work anytime from anywhere."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"You do not have to do everything through a command line which makes it a lot easier to apply rules."
"Cisco ASA works out-of-the-box. With the setup wizard, it was easy to get it deployed quickly, even by novice IT users."
"The most valuable feature is the access control list (ACL)."
"The product is easy to manage and simple. It works with the rest of our Cisco products. You can drop in new ones if you need more performance. The training and documentation provided are good."
"The monitoring dashboard is valuable to us for troubleshooting."
"The most valuable feature would be the IP blocking. It gets rid of things that you don't need in your environment."
"We can easily track unauthorized users and see where traffic is going."
"An efficient, easy to deploy and dependable firewall solution."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"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."
"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."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"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."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"Cisco Firepower is not completely integrated with Active Directory. We are trying to use Active Directory to restrict users by using some security groups that are not integrated within the Cisco Firepower module. This is the main issue that we are facing."
"Security must be increased when a new user connects over the LAN and an alarm must be generated."
"The one thing that the ASAs don't have is a central management point. We have a lot of our environments on FTD right now. So, we are using a Firewall Management Center (FMC) to manage all those. The ASAs don't really have that, but they are easy to use if you physically go into them and manage them."
"There is limited data storage on the appliance itself. So, you need to ship it out elsewhere in order for you to store it. The only point of consideration is around that area, basically limited storage on the machine and appliance. Consider logging it elsewhere or pushing it out to a SIEM to get better controls and manipulation over the data to generate additional metrics and visibility."
"It needs to provide the next-generation firewall features that other vendors provide, like data analytics, telemetry, and deep packet inspection."
"It could use a web-based portal for VPN. Earlier they had it in the ASA model, but currently they don't have it."
"ASDM needs to be able to customize applets."
"Usually, the customers are satisfied, but I am going to recommend that all clients upgrade to FirePOWER management. I want Cisco to improve the feature called anti-spam. We use a Cisco only email solution, that's why we need the anti-spam on email facility."
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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