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Likelihood to Recommend
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
For a larger organization, this is a must. It provides insight into what the users are doing online and most malicious sites will no longer be accessible if access is denied. This can also give access to non-work related sites, but in a limited capacity, based on user or time of day. Though a smaller company would benefit from the features, it may be cost prohibitive.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Legal Services Company, 11-50 employeesPalo Alto Networks WildFire
Palo Alto Networks Wildfire is well suited for pretty much anywhere that you need the latest and greatest network security. It is extremely good at protecting you from the latest malware threats that might pose a potential problem for your network/endpoints. We've been very please since we installed it and I would say cost of the Palo Altos is the only drawback. If money were no object I'd go with a Palo Alto with Wildfire every time. But unfortunately in some smaller branches it just doesn't make financial sense.

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Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
- Control of domains/sites allowed for access. We can be sure our users are not using their online activity to accidentally, or intentionally, to go to malicious, threatening, intolerance, hate, or pornography.
- Reporting is easy and informative. Reports allow you to summarize for specific time periods, and then drill down to see time spent, or bandwidth used.
- Blocking and/or allowing instantly for a specific user or groups is easily done and takes effect immediately.
Director of IT
GiumarraFood & Beverages, 201-500 employees
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
- This is could base and easily manageable for our collocation. While working within the could can review in live time potential treats that it has reported from other devices.
- Worked very well with existing Palo Alto devices.
- Another huge plus is the simplicity of managing and ease of scalability.
- Its cost is competitive with similar/like products available.
System Administrator
vdiscoveryLegal Services, 51-200 employees
Cons
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
- More configuration in the reporting options would be helpful; there are a number of reports available to run, however more options for customisation would be useful.
- The ability to add a list of domains/URL patterns to whitelist or block would be beneficial; while you can do a bulk edit, you can't just copy and paste the URLs in, you have to modify the line of text so that it matches the format, and adds it to the list. The ability to just import a list of addresses would be a huge time saver.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Aviation & Aerospace Company, 501-1000 employeesPalo Alto Networks WildFire
- Would be helpful if they supported more file types.
- Would be helpful if they supported uploads of larger files.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employeesLikelihood to Renew
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire
Palo Alto Networks WildFire 10.0
Based on 1 answer
It works very well and takes care of protecting us from threats new and well-known. It's been a game changer in terms of threat detection & prevention.

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Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesUsability
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
Barracuda Web Security Gateway 8.0
Based on 1 answer
There are a lot of settings you can adjust. The web log is easy to use. If a user is having issues accessing a website, you can go in and see what's being blocked and why. After that, you can make adjustments fairly easy. The GUI is easy to navigate and updating the software is a simple click of a button.

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Administrator in Information Technology
Plastics Company, 201-500 employeesPalo Alto Networks WildFire
Palo Alto Networks WildFire 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Easy to use and works well. For the most part it's set it and forget it, but there's also some flexibility for high security environments and those with extra privacy concerns.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employeesSupport Rating
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
Barracuda Web Security Gateway 9.3
Based on 5 answers
Barracuda support is always available, 24/7. They are always friendly, supportive, and follow-up with anything they promise. Any ticket that is opened is touched constantly by the support team until it is remedied
Director of IT
GiumarraFood & Beverages, 201-500 employees
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
Palo Alto Networks WildFire 9.0
Based on 2 answers
PAN support is very good. You can get the reasonable and timely support on any conditions. When the product is already integrated with the PAN firewalls, you can choose the severity levels based on the effect. The customer service/TAC is very helpful, they even have additional recommendations of advises for product usability. Local partners are also assisting the cases and give their expertise.

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Supervisor in Information Technology
Banking Company, 10,001+ employeesAlternatives Considered
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
SonicWall, Barracuda NG Firewall, and WatchGuard provides Content Filtering, but are primarily firewalls with Content Filtering features. The Web Filter is a dedicated appliance with more storage space and better reporting of users.
Service Manager
Accellis Technology GroupInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
We use both FireEye and WildFire - they are the same and different. No analysis has been done.
Security Architect
Securicon, LLCComputer & Network Security, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
- I came into the company with Barracuda already implemented so it worked well for a number of years.
- Their support contract was a bit pricey.
- For what the company paid for the system, Barracuda was worth the money over the 10 years it was implemented.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Retail Company, 201-500 employeesPalo Alto Networks WildFire
- Although expensive to implement correctly, seeing ROI for us is projected within 6 years. The added high end security appliances shows robust attention to confidential data we process.
- This makes us more desirable to clients and helps with when reporting third party combat infiltration testing.
- It's a hard pill to swallow the first year, however new jobs are quicker to be generated due to again the high security measures we implement.
System Administrator
vdiscoveryLegal Services, 51-200 employees
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Palo Alto Networks WildFire
—Pricing Details
Barracuda Web Security Gateway
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Palo Alto Networks WildFire
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No