We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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."The technical support is great."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"It is a safe product."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and there are several operating systems that can include the hardware capacities. In the newer releases, the resources were more useful because they were included in the operating system."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"Its user interface is good, and it is always working fine."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"We use Barracuda NG Firewall as a border firewall. We trough it to control all in/out Internet traffic."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"I would most definitely recommend this solution to other people."
"The versatility is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The program is very stable."
"The main benefit of the Check Point Virtual Systems solution is its ability to split up the hardware appliances that we have into several logical, virtual devices with separate traffic handling policies, as well as the switching and routing."
"The product offers an easy and nice way to manage the gateways, similar to on-prem hardware. It has packet filtering features. Our security operations are faster and less prone to errors. We selected CloudGuard Network Security due to its visibility."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to run the gateways as virtual machines in our virtual data center. The tool protects the virtual data centers."
"I like the firewall and the virtual machine. I also like that it's compatible with Amazon Web Services and Azure."
"Advanced check prevention is a great feature that provides threat intelligence at speed."
"The most valuable feature for us is the cluster support."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"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."
"The price could be better."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"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."
"A rule for email announcements, when configured hits occur, would be a great improvement for a more efficient experience."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"Greater automation would reduce the need for manual configuration and management."
"There is room for improvement regarding the technical support provided."
"We have Microsoft CASB cloud app security and it's one of the least compatible firewalls. They really need to look at this, as both Check Point and Microsoft are major players. Why aren't they compatible? If we had Palo Alto then we wouldn't have this problem."
"The management console can be simplified because at the moment, it is a bit of a challenge to use."
"As an administrator, I can say that among all of the Check Point products I have been working with so far, the Virtual Systems solution is one of the most difficult."
"We have the product deployed on Azure China. One crucial concern is the version limitation; unfortunately, in Azure China, we are restricted to running version R80. Our architecture has a Load Balancer, VMSS CloudGuard, etc. The duplication in this setup prevents the application from seeing the original client IP. This poses a problem for certain applications that require the original IP for login purposes. Although we managed a workaround with a different architecture involving a WAF, it is not as straightforward as the standard Azure setup."
"CloudGuard Network Security needs to include new features. One specific feature I would like to see is the ability to protect external resources using single sign-on integration with various identity providers, including custom identity providers. Its pricing could also be cheaper."
"The API integration is complex, which is an area that should be improved."
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Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is ranked 8th in Firewalls with 119 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Check Point CloudGuard Network Security 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 Check Point CloudGuard Network Security writes "The solution has good threat emulation, threat extraction, and reporting features". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Check Point CloudGuard Network Security is most compared with Azure Firewall, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security report.
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