Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs Cisco Firepower 1000 Series

• The management software is excellent. It make it much easier to manage the firewalls than some of the other vendors.
• Watching real-time traffic is easy to do when trying to troubleshoot a users issues getting to a particular service.
• Support from Barracuda has been excellent. We rate their phone and online remote support as being the best in the business.
• We like the QoS and Traffic shaping of the NG Firewalls. They help is manage our limited bandwidth, so that business critical resources are available over lesser critical resources.
• Integration with Active Directory makes it easy to identify users activities in logs.

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• Network segmentation by zones--allows trusted traffic to pass inspected or uninspected while non-trusted traffic is always inspected.
• Scalable management--many different types of policies are available within Cisco Firepower 1000 Series management to ensure proper access, authorization, inspection, and threat response.
• Redundancy--Cisco Firepower 1000 Series devices can be set up in High Availability in the event there are issues with one member.
• Compatibility--Cisco Firepower 1000 Series devices can be used in tandem easily with other Cisco products or in a vendor-arbitrary environment.

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• Not come across any yet! A nice-to-have could be a mobile app which allows you to monitor it on your phone or mobile device.

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• We have a few remote sites that connect via a metro-E link that needed a way back to the network via a more secure route than we were using before. Using the Cisco Firepower 1120 and 1140 we were able to successfully get those sites back onto the network over a VPN link with a much better/safer protocol and connection type.
• We user the Cisco Firepower 1120 in a variety of use cases across our division. We typically use it in a high-availability configuration, both in the same room together and separated via some distance. The Cisco Firepower 1000 Series has been a nice upgrade from our previous models of Cisco Firewalls.

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• Positive: highly customizable and can control the entire network from one location.
• Positive: all services and processes work very well and are reliable.
• Positive: MSPs looking to deploy and control numerous firewalls with ease, this is hands down the best product.
• Negative: very high learning curve, definitely not a one-and-done firewall. Requires a lot of dedicated time to get the machine running the way you want.

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• It has been positive. The cost of us being down because of an attack or infection far outweighs the price of the unit. It was a good purchase for the peace of mind of knowing we are protected.

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