Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Reviews

It is an enterprise level firewall at less than an enterprise cost. I would put them next to Cisco or Juniper any day. They are functional, reliable, quick, and the support from Barracuda is second to NONE.

Nothing. I mean they could cost less, but you get what you pay for at the end of the day and when you are protecting a company from people doing things they shouldn't have to do, cost starts to become not as relevant.

It is securing internet access for our whole agency. We use small firewalls at small facilities to build VPN tunnels back to the main facility. The original problem it solved was an inherent ACL in a Cisco ASA that I needed around for a specific purpose and Cisco was unwilling to do anything to make it work. Barracuda, I could do it out of the box... and that was the old X series firewalls. The cloudgens are light years ahead of them when they stopped making the X's.

Its automation feature is very impressive. Integration in the cloud is very easy. Central management system with deep threat protection.

All the things are nice features are also good, but it is costly. and the learning curve is steep.

Cybersecurity. Packet tracing and log monitoring. Threat detection.

More than 8 years ago the task was to replace a shared infrastructure consisting of several firewalls and network accesses, some of which were simple devices without next-gen functions or modern ones such as ATP, botnet protection, etc. Since I had only just started the position, I was familiar with the entire structure and data streams completely unknown. Unfortunately, my predecessors didn't do a particularly good job in terms of documentation. The observation mode made it easy to analyze the current data stream and plan initial optimizations and detect weak points and security gaps. This made it possible to build in parallel and switch directly. Afterwards, all deficiencies could be eliminated in small steps. Despite the many firmware updates with some architectural changes over the many years, the basic operation has not changed and updates were possible without support except once (an old configured network was not removed correctly). Changing the hardware was extremely easy, just import a backup of the old one, wire everything up and off we went. Otherwise, daily operations are very quiet and give me a lot of freedom for other tasks.

he configuration software is only available for Windows. Some firewalls offer Wireguard support, which is still missing here, as this is the only solution available, especially for smaller third-party companies that we connect with.

Except for a second firewall (for UCM), it is the only authenticator, access point, network protection and router we have. The configuration is logical and easy after a short training period. This creates more time for other activities.

I find Barracuda CloudGen Firewall valuable for monitoring and controlling our network traffic. The technical support is always top notch and available, which really helps us. The initial setup was very easy, making it straightforward right from the start.

I think an improvement could have to do with having some sort of log review by AI to determine if there are issues with the firewalls that are not being seen with the monitor.

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall provides a single portal for firewall protection information and supports the monitoring and controlling of our network traffic.

Available onpremise and Cloud environments with centrale management from Control center. It was 10 year one of the first with integration in Azure.

In the way that we use the firewall we have not found a dislike.

Centrale solution for the hybrid environment

1. Simplified Management using control centre.

2. Separate management and data plane.

3. SDWAN feature with TINA Tunnel

1. Frequent software update causing service inconsistency.

1. Advanced Security features(IPS, Web Filtering, antimalware) along with SDWAN.

2. Cetralized Management(Seperate data and management plane)

3. VPN, SDWAN along with its own TINA VPN tunnel has added advantages.

1. Licencing and subscription model quite expensive.

Firewalls work well as an eco system so you can control multiple devices from a single control centre. It offers a single pane of glass interface. Spinning up a new firewall became quite easy. Customer support was very responsive. We have been using multiple CloudGen Firewalls for a while now and have found that they very easily adapted themselves to the change from a virtual CoVid world to our new Live/Hybrid event environment.

The user GUI while very powerful is very clunky and not intuitive. Drastic changes in the workflow and operational mechanisms need to be done to make the learning curve much easier.

we were able to manage failover scenarios from our multiple ISP solutions and customize them based on the source of the traffic.

The best thing I like about the Barracuda Cloud Native SASE is the zero trust network access, integrated secure gateway.

There is nothing particular that I dislike about it.

It Help me with Zero trust network access which is really important for Remote access for my organization.

Barracuda has provide different advanced features such as strong Threat Intelligence, secure access control as well as firewall protection for your organizations. Also it is provide user friendly dashboard for the management purposes. Additionally the customer support also the best.

When talk about the pricing, it is little bit increasing apart from the similar products in the market.

The business challenge within the organization is the use of sensitive data and information. We aim to prevent cyber threats and attacks, and the Barracuda Cloud-Native SASE solution helps protect sensitive applications by preventing these relevant cyber threats and attacks.