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."The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"FortiGate SD-WAN facilitated a smooth transition for our customers between their two internet service providers, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity without any downtime."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"I like Fortinet's cloud management. It allows me to manage all my devices in different branches for three cloud accounts. Even though I use on-prem devices, I can manage everything on the cloud."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"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 think Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is one of the most advanced firewall platforms. I also like that it's easy to get top-level support right away. You get that security, and if you make a mistake, it doesn't break."
"If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"The technical support is very good."
"I have found the solution has some great features overall, such as guest access capabilities, dashboards, and ease of use. There is plenty of documentation and support and it has the plugins that I needed."
"The most valuable features in OPNsense are reporting and visibility."
"The DNS-level filtering is impressive for thwarting time scanners."
"OPNsense is easy to scale when running on the hardware."
"The feature I find most valuable, is that the program helped me to realize all the requested functionality that was needed."
"OPNsense is easy to use and open source."
"OPNsense could improve by making the configuration more web-based rather than shell or command-line-based."
"The scalability could be better."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"The analytics are weak."
"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 biggest downside is that it is quite an expensive product."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The administration UI could be better. It should also have better application detection policies."
"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 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 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."
"The scalability needs improvement."
"Its interface should be a little bit better."
"The solution would not be suitable for anything large-scale."
"There should be more technical documentation."
"The IPS solution could be more reliable."
"While they do have paid options that actually gives better features, for most of the clients, if they tend to take a paid option will instead opt for Fortinet."
"On the customer-side, because I'm a small business, I need a cheaper or free solution option."
"There is room for improvement in SSL inspection."
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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