Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs SAP Access Control

Likelihood to Recommend

I would say a small business with a basic firewall and security needs would be a perfect fit for the Barracuda CloudGen firewall. I know that they soon end up leaving the NG models and are moving forward with the F series firewall. I think the F series is a much more difficult to manage device and doesn’t offer simplistic configuration or use and lacks cloud control so I don’t understand the move on Barracuda’s part to nix a great easy to manage the firewall. I do think that the NG line is maybe too simple for bigger businesses and would lack some main features that they would require.

Read full review

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Defense & Space Company, 201-500 employees

View all 8 answers on this topic

For managing access for SAP systems.
In combination with SAP IDM/ third party IAM systems for ensuring compliant user provisioning (CUP)
For designing and building SOD conflict-free SAP roles.
Setting up a flexible workflow for managing access orders.
For privilege access management /fire fighter functionality.

Read full review

Goldy Verma

Expert SAP Authorization/GRC AC 12.0

Deutsche TelekomTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

View all 5 answers on this topic

Feature Rating Comparison

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

SAP Access Control

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Pros

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Project Manager in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees

View all 8 answers on this topic

Safeguards private company information.
Helps every department of our organization to prevent and detect risks.
Help reduce data access from unauthorized users.

Read full review

Verified User

Administrative Assistant in Sales

Events Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

View all 5 answers on this topic

Cons

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

View all 8 answers on this topic

SAP products in general are not user friendly. SAP Access Control is no exception to this. Even though the use of the Netweaver interface is a big improvement on user interaction, the presentation of big amounts of data could be improved (list of roles, information of values assigned to authorization object fields, and the like).
Regarding functionality on Access Control, the product is about complete; I cannot think of anything else to add to it.

Read full review

Luis Cruz

Director de Gestión y Auditoría de TI

Soluciones y Servicios TecnológicosAutomotive, 1001-5000 employees

View all 5 answers on this topic

Usability

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall 5.5

Based on 1 answer

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.

Read full review

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

SAP Access Control 10.0

Based on 1 answer

This is a great tool for a medium to large sized company. SAP Access Control requires a great deal of SAP knowledge to use, but it is certainly information that can be learned. Their customer support is wonderful and easy to work with. The overall usability is great. I greatly recommend this software.

Read full review

Verified User

Administrative Assistant in Sales

Events Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

View all 1 answers on this topic

Support Rating

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall 8.4

Based on 6 answers

I could go on and on about how good Barracuda's support really is. I have yet to have a problem they didn't help me fix and I always learn something when talking with them. The story that best describes my overall experience with Barracuda's support is this: When I first put in the xSeries they had a problem with a policy route. There was a bug in the code and in the one situation I was it, it just would not work. I went up the levels of support and they couldn't fix it. Well, next thing I know I am on the phone with 2 of the guys that programmed the thing and they work out the solution in no time and get me going. That is support. That is what I have come to expect from Barracuda. If the tech on the phone doesn't know the answer, they do not stop until they find it. Grant it, I also have to admit I do not call support with every problem, I try to work it out on my own first as that is how I learn best, so when I do call support it is going to be complicated.

Read full review

Paul Metzger

Senior Network Engineer

Pine Belt Mental HealthHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees

View all 6 answers on this topic

SAP Access Control 8.2

Based on 3 answers

This product fulfills all our requirements. We can use this for user management, role management, risk analysis, business role management, workflow management. Initial configuration takes a lot of effort. Otherwise it's a great product for the end user. SAP Access Control tool performance needs improvement, sometimes it slows down the processing time for requests.

Read full review

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees

View all 3 answers on this topic

Alternatives Considered

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 forward to getting better acquainted with as we move off of our old Cisco. Of course, Barracuda's technical support is always there and is top notch!

Read full review

Jay Glatt

Vice President of IT

GiumarraFood & Beverages, 201-500 employees

View all 8 answers on this topic

SAP Access Control provides end to end functionality. Designing and building of SAP roles, publishing the roles, ordering the access, and finally compliant user provisioning. While another solution has a dependency on SAP access control to ensure the compliant user provisioning. The only benefit of other solutions is that they can be used for non-SAP target systems as well. Further in SAP Access Control, the connection setup for new target application is very easy and fast.

Read full review

Goldy Verma

Expert SAP Authorization/GRC AC 12.0

Deutsche TelekomTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

View all 5 answers on this topic

Return on Investment

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.

Read full review

Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Accellis Technology GroupInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

View all 8 answers on this topic

Less time spent on user access management
More time to devote to other projects
More confidence in access and data security

Read full review

Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Machinery Company, 10,001+ employees

View all 5 answers on this topic

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

—

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

SAP Access Control

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

SAP Access Control

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

SAP Access Control

Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs SAP Access Control