Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. N‑able DNS Filtering

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

N‑able DNS Filtering

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	Barracuda CloudGen Firewalls provides a wide range of security and connectivity features, including web filtering, NAC and SSL VPN and other features for remote access, as well as protection as edge devices and IoT security.	N/A
N‑able DNS Filtering	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	N-able DNS Filtering is the company's solution that defends proactively against malicious advertising and harmful websites. The vendor's value proposition is that the solution provides stronger protection, greater network visibility, and user-based reporting—all from within the N‑able N-central® dashboard. Users can: Use AI and machine learning to recognize and block malicious websites in real-time Get DNS protection on a fast and reliable network Onboard…	N/A

Pricing

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

N‑able DNS Filtering

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall	N‑able DNS Filtering
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Barracuda offers prospective buyers a build and quote tool on their website.

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Community Pulse
	Barracuda CloudGen Firewall	N‑able DNS Filtering
Considered Both Products	Barracuda CloudGen Firewall KH Kael Hankins Asst. Tech Director Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Our only other vendor in this space is really in a different class, making it difficult to compare them directly head to head. Certainly, Barracuda is more fully-featured and FAR more flexible. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall None Incentivized Helpful? JG Jay Glatt Vice President of IT Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Our Cisco firewall was always difficult to make any changes against. It had no user-friendly GUI interface. We were calling technical support most of the time whenever we needed to make any changes. The Barracuda CloudGen Firewall has a GUI interface which we are looking … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall We already use Smoothwall for our main web filtering and felt it would be more robust to have a failover service in case of hardware failure. Pricewise the 2 were comparable and both would have been an upgrade on the no longer supported Microsoft Threat Management gateway. We … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall We replaced the Juniper to gain throughput & flexibility - but the Barracuda is easier to manage as well. Incentivized Helpful? PM Paul Metzger Senior Network Engineer Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall There really is no comparison. Juniper and Sonicwall are the closest competitors, however, in terms of features versus price Barracuda wins every time. Cisco does not allow the ASA to do certain things it should be allowed to do, it is design flaws but they have no intention of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall We used a much alder Cisco ASA router that was chocking our bandwidth and it couldn’t really be compared. It was clunky and horrible at best. Our WatchGuard was overly complicated and difficult to manage and required a version matching thick client installed locally to manage … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall What sold us on Barracuda was the ease of use, the price based on number of features, and their excellent support. We cannot say enough good about the support Barracuda provides. Incentivized Helpful? DS Derek Schroeder Service Manager Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Barracuda, much like the others, has a lot to learn in order to master for quick deployment and management. The biggest separation is the level of customization that is possible. Barracuda support definitely goes above and beyond over the competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Barracuda CloudGen Firewall We have used SonicWALL and WatchGuard appliances in the past. Barracuda is not only more feature rich, but less expensive. Barracuda's partner program is also second to none. We lost a lot of confidence with SonicWALL as ownership changing hands multiple times in the last few … Incentivized Helpful?	N‑able DNS Filtering No answer on this topic

Features

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

N‑able DNS Filtering

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Barracuda CloudGen Firewall 9.5 Ratings 10% above category average	N‑able DNS Filtering - Ratings
Identification Technologies	9.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visualization Tools	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content Inspection	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	9.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	9.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	9.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
VPN	9.70 Ratings	00 Ratings
High Availability	9.90 Ratings	00 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	9.80 Ratings	00 Ratings
Proxy Server	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Barracuda CloudGen Firewall	N‑able DNS Filtering
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	5.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	6.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Barracuda CloudGen Firewall	N‑able DNS Filtering
Likelihood to Recommend	The firewalls management is made easy through its very good management software. It has a lot of features such as VPN, ATP, IPS, Real-time log views, Active Directory integration, Virus Scanning of traffic / file downloads, High Availability Failover, Qos / Traffic Shaping, and a nice quick glance dashboard. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	Increased level of network protection against threats. Visibility and control of applications that users access. URL Filtering to block unauthorized or prohibited websites on the internal corporate network. Protection against diverse malware at the edge of the network. Firewall redundancy with another backup appliance. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	Very complex and steep learning curve to get up to speed. Multiple ways to configure for the same service or feature. Takes time to determine "your" customized build. Interface can sometimes be clunky when trying to determine how it's organized or arranged. Again, steep learning curve. Derek Schroeder Service Manager Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	Easy enough to use and configure using the management UI. Reporting from the web filter is a little clunky, and not very user friendly. To be perfectly honest, once it's set up and running, there isn't a lot to do from the day-to-day side of things, which is not a bad thing. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	They are very quick to answer the phone and I think I haven’t waited more than 5 minutes in the queue and if you have to hang up they actually call you back when it’s your turn in line. They have a secure tunnel that you can open for them to get into your device and help you with basically anything. It’s pretty magical if you ask me. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We used a much alder Cisco ASA router that was chocking our bandwidth and it couldn’t really be compared. It was clunky and horrible at best. Our WatchGuard was overly complicated and difficult to manage and required a version matching thick client installed locally to manage the firewall. The Barracuda solved a bunch of issues from both of these devices and allows me to really save time and money with its easy to configure the interface and inexpensive yet quality device and interface allow me to feel like I am getting a great value for my security. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Really neutral given we came from the x series. The move to the x series was a huge positive in terms of time spent managing and the ability to get what needed to be done, well done. The move to the NG was just the next step. I will say the one thing, in terms of value, that is given is the firewall admin application. This one program saves a ton of time in configuration versus using the web-based configuration. You can only pick one, and for me, it's a no brainer - turn the web-based config off and use the app. Incentivized PM Paul Metzger Senior Network Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
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