We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Netgate pfSense 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."SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable."
"The product offers very good security."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The solution is stable."
"We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"Easy integration with some other systems like LDAP or Active Directory to manage other permissions and the division of external access and internal access."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"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 solution is stable."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Good basic firewall features."
"Creation of certificates and the facility to administer services are valuable features."
"I have found pfSense to be stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of pfSense are the reports, monitoring, filtration, and blocking incoming and outgoing traffic."
"Its scalability is a strong point."
"The initial setup was simple and fast."
"What I like about pfSense is that it works well and runs on an inexpensive appliance."
"With the addition of some features, it is possible that FortiGate can be used in all verticals."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"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."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"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."
"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 price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"If you experience an attack it can take a very long time to find a solution."
"More documentation would be great, especially on new features because sometimes, when new features come out, you don't get to understand them right off the bat. You have to really spend a lot of time understanding them. So, more documentation would be awesome."
"The GUI could use more “bells and whistles”. It's got plenty of info for a Sysadmin but some people like shiny things."
"I would like to see pfSense integrate WireGuard. Currently, pfSense uses OpenVPN, and there's nothing wrong with it, but WireGuard is a lot leaner and meaner."
"The access control aspect of the product could be improved."
"I tried pfSense, and it has a big issue with file system consistency, and this is what drove me to OPNsense. The file system stability is quite a big issue for us. We have a lot of outages related to power issues, and OPNsense is much more stable on this side."
"There's a bit of a learning curve during the initial implementation."
"We have not had any problems with it, and we also do not have a need for any new features. If anything, its reporting can be better. Sophos has better reporting than pfSense. Sophos has more detailed information. pfSense is not as detailed. It is summarized."
"I would like to see multiple DNS servers running on individual interfaces."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Netgate pfSense is ranked 1st in Firewalls with 128 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Netgate pfSense is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Netgate pfSense writes "User-friendly, easy to manage the firewall, rule-wise and interface-wise". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Azure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas Netgate pfSense is most compared with OPNsense, Sophos XG, KerioControl, Sophos UTM and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Netgate pfSense report.
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