Barracuda Web Application Firewall Valuable Features
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Anand K R
Technical Lead at cmsit services
The most valuable features of Barracuda Web Application Firewall include advanced bot protection, DDoS protection, and addressing the top ten vulnerabilities. The solution provides robust support, which I particularly appreciate for its ability to address my inquiries and technical challenges effectively.
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Anne-Aimee Wollerich
Cyber Security Consultant at Axle iT
The most valuable feature of Barracuda Web Application Firewall is managing bot traffic. During a presentation by Barracuda, it was demonstrated that the traffic on Coolblue, a Dutch platform similar to Amazon, was significantly reduced with Barracuda's intervention. Half of the traffic was identified as bots searching for the cheapest price. This traffic analysis and bot management were used as unique selling points for other customers.
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Syed MajedHussain
Senior sales manager at World Future Company
The most valuable feature is the ease of use and the signature base.
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall
July 2025
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Carlo Bertini
It consultant and Project Manager/ CTO technology officer at Cabar at Cabar SRL
One of the strongest points is its robust issue discovery capabilities. Barracuda invests significant efforts in identifying and resolving issues. They have multiple products that work in tandem to perform these checks, which is beneficial because it automates security updates. This is the primary reason I recommend it to my customers.
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VijayKumar8
Network Security Engineer at Progressive Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
Barracuda WAF is very good product. It is very responsive, and, feature-wise, it's very good and easy to use.
You can easily deploy any kind of service.
The technical support is also good. I'm very satisfied.
It is stable and the performance is good.
The product is scalable.
It's easy to install.
They offer good reporting.
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Phakedi Mphela
IT Project Manager at Brilliant telecommunications
Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s most valuable features are real-time threat detection and automatic security updates.
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reviewer1649691
Technical Program Manager, Security - Mergers at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is the rule set, the ability to specify IP addresses that are excluded. Having the ability therefore to build rules, and exclude specific domains or websites, is very helpful. And when I compare it with some technologies I have used prior to that, which is Signal Science WAF and such. So how the rule set is handled is actually quite nice.
Rimon Morcos
Network Security and Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Sami Esber
Cyber Security Consultant at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
The Barracuda Web Application Firewall is more than perfect. It's a near-optimal solution. It has good performance.
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Anuraj Nair
Presales Engineer at SNSIN
Some of the most valuable features are the ease of deployment, the Barracuda support, the easy-to-use console, and the granularity of the reports.
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Network Security and Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The most helpful feature is rate limiting, which acts as a security layer against DDoS attacks. Additionally, data leak prevention is very important and ensures protection against attacks.
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IT Systems & Security Administrator at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution's most valuable feature is that it actually protects our website, and it provides all the required security functions.
Ahmed MohammedKhan
Network secur eng at Qatar Free Zone
The interface is great. It's one of the most valuable aspects of the solution.
The visibility we are able to achieve is quite good.
The traffic monitoring is very helpful and the URL filtering has been excellent.
Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good.
We have found that the technical support is very good.
The pricing of the product isn't overly expensive.
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SubhajitChatterjee
Sr IT Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The product has fantastic support services. It provides complex solutions, including block mode and other default protection features.
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Kanwar Arsalan
Sophos Certified Product Architect at Softech Microsystems
We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks.
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Paramveer Singh
Manager at Inspira Enterprise
What I like most about Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its availability. I also like that it's an easy-to-use solution.
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Chief Information Security Officer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable.
The initial setup is mostly straightforward.
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Especialista en Informática at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for the protection of the active WAF. It offers quite good security.
The solution is stable.
The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance.
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Muhammed-Shafi
Presales Solutions Architect at Hilal Computers
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 API security they offer is quite good.
The technical support on offer is very good.
There's multiple application delivery which is impressive.
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SolomonAwosina
CTO at GCET
One of the best aspects of the solution is the support provided. Their backend support is fantastic. I've found it's superior to other products, including Cisco. The way the support team treats its customers is great. They really walk you through everything and show you how easy it is to mend issues.
I find the solution to be easy to deploy. You don't need too much technical skill, so you don't need an expert level of understanding.
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Igor-Bashtovyi
Security Engineer at a tech services company
I think the biggest value comes from the ability of Web Application Firewall to perform analysis of attacks that are registered by it, as well as its ability to analyze source code of those attacks and all traffic that is captured by Web Application Firewall.
The basic functionality of the Web Application Firewall is pretty good. Therefore in comparison with CloudFlare, Barracuda has significant powerful instruments for analysis of main traffic of requests that we get on the application. If however, we try to compare Barracuda and F5, F5 is more powerful than Barracuda. In any case, it's very hard to make these comparisons, because one product has more powerful features from one point of view, while the other product is better from another point of view.
I can say that it's good only in comparison with some products. All products have approximately the same functionality, but some products are more powerful in certain aspects.
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Вячеслав Нозиков
Presale Engineer at Softprom by ERC
The product has valuable technical features.
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Ferrianto Suryanto
Director Of Technology at PT Exa Teknologi Indonesia
The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up.
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Manager Information Technology at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Our customers value the solution's simplicity.
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Especialista en Informática at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for.
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Maged Magdy
Security Consultant at Global Solutions
Its recommendation about the probabilities on the website is great. It also has free probability managers for the website, which is really helpful.
The protection engine, signature-based protection behavior, and analysis features are also great. It also has an ATP module for sandbox scanning and behavior analysis for file uploads.
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Wojciech Wo?Yniak
IT Manager at Toshiba Tec Poland
The most valuable features are the client VPN and content filtering.
This solution is simple to manage.
The interface and the dashboards are ok.
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It consultant and Project Manager/ CTO technology officer at Cabar at Cabar SRL
The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering.
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CTO at GCET
The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration.
This solution makes management easy.
I really like the firewall weblog that allows me to see what is being blocked, why, and how I can apply a fix.
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Senior Operations Manager at samergl
The features are all fine. We just fixed some bugs from three months ago, and we're waiting now for a final review. They sent us some features to fix the issue.
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Hamza Ahmed
Assistant to the General Manager at a tech services company with self employed
The volumetric DDoS defense is very good because I had a problem with a lot of volumetric DDoS attacks on my servers. After using Barracuda, those attacks have stopped, all of the traffic is going smoothly to my servers and the system is working really well.
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Director of Systems Infrastructure at a tech vendor
It works exactly by design. It works very well.
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IT432a5D
IT Security Administrator at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It mainly provides good support, and it is a good web application for us.
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Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
There is no one special feature, but the WAF itself is valuable: user-friendly protection against web attacks etc., authentication, reporting, accountability, alerting, and hardened OS.
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Head of Infrastructure at a tech company with 51-200 employees
1) The Barracuda Networks Web Application Firewall can protect your vital web applications from various exploits by hackers.
2) Can be easily deployed and configured.
3) Can be used to protect many applications, like Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Oracle, FTP, SharePoint, XML, etc. It can also protect custom applications deployed within the environment.
4) Can be very easily integrated with Active Directory and various 2-factor authentication systems.
5) Has a built in virus scanner for any data uploads.
6) Reasonably priced
7) Checks both Inbound and Outbound traffic to ensure protection against any type of data leakage and theft.
8) Barracuda Web Application Firewall has a built in load balancer, which can easily distribute traffic to multiple backend servers.
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Ferrianto Suryanto
Director Of Technology at PT Exa Teknologi Indonesia
The product's advanced bot and threat protection capabilities are valuable.
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Mohammed_Pasha
IT Administrator at SPSP
Parameter Protection is a valuable feature. Most of the features are quite useful. It is a helpful tool. It helped us with penetration testing.
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Porleng Phatt
Pre-Sales Engineer at eCam Solution Co., Ltd
I like the dashboard.
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Manjil Bhetwal
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use.
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July 2025
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