We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product has fantastic support services."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"Has a good dashboard."
"The solution offers multiple security features. There are machine learning features and great URL encryption. It also offers multi-protocol support against DDoS attacks."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"It allows us to scale out to multiple phase servers."
"FortiWeb is easy to operate with a reasonably high level of protection. FortiWeb provides multiple deployment options with a physical or virtual (FortiWeb-VM) appliance, and acts either as a reverse/transparent proxy or out-of-band. It is also available on AWS and Azure."
"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."
"One of the big advantages of using Fortinet FortiWeb is all the Fortinet family solutions use the same user interface and logic. This makes it easy to use, configure, manage, and understand if you have used one of their solutions before or are wanting to implement other Fortinet solutions in the future. Additionally, all Fortinet solutions can be managed with one application called FortiManager."
"FortiWeb offers machine learning in the latest product. This fixed many problems. There are no false negatives."
"Fortinet is a great SD-WAN player when it comes to security capabilities."
"The product has a very user-friendly dashboard."
"When we had Cisco we had around thirty thousand entries on our firewalls. Now we are down to three thousand. Fortinet has a mechanism to detect all of your entries which are not used, and it can clean it up."
"Auto Learn feature: Makes policy additions or deletions for my customers very simple"
"We encountered a few glitches while implementing API security features into the product."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"This product could easily progress to be among the industry leaders. I think they need to improve enterprise level automation. It integrates with a small number of vulnerability scanners, so report results should be imported manually; same for SIEM integration."
"While the UI is good, it can get a little bit complicated."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"I have issues with the load balancing of the solution which is slow. The connection pooling in Barracuda also doesn't work. There is an issue when someone needs access to a site quickly. The issue is with HTTPS services. I am not sure if they have changed all these in the solution’s latest version."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"The support side of things can be improved."
"Their support needs improvement."
"The dashboard evaluating the performance of each application connected to the web app's firewall is quite helpful, but the tool is only available in application performance management. So I think if Fortinet could better integrate that particular feature, it would add a lot of value to the product."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"The product's scalability could be better."
"The solution is rather complicated. If you know what to do, it's not bad, but it's complicated for a first time user to configure the solution. What I'd like to improve are the custom signatures."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"They can introduce a scaled-down version for the SMB market. It would be very competitive in the environment."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda Web Application Firewall writes "Provides strong issue discovery capabilities; enhance the security parameters of web applications and suitable for medium to large enterprises". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster and Radware Alteon, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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