We performed a comparison between A10 Networks Lightning ADC and Barracuda Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Our clients appreciate that this is a security enabled solution."
"What I like about Lightning ADC, is that instead of having a big appliance sitting in front of the Kubernetes cluster, Lightning can pretty much go inside of Kubernetes."
"It allows you to secure the application while balancing the connections for many other customers, reducing CPU usage and server load."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"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 and all the traffic is going smoothly to my servers and the system is working really well."
"The product has fantastic support services."
"The stability of the solution is good. I don't think we've experienced bugs, crashes, or glitches."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"The support from A10 should be improved."
"A10 documentation is not as open and accessible as AWS and Azure documentation is."
"We would like to see some improvement in the rapidity with which we can customize security facts within the solution."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"The documentation is lacking. It's not like what you'd get if you were using Juniper or Cisco. They need to expand on it and make it more useful."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"One of Barracuda's limitations is its user interface. The GUI for configuration is not intuitive and has remained largely unchanged for the past 10 to 12 years."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"Sometimes when we put it in action, we have some blogs that appear as false positives. I think that it's improving. Barracuda should minimize false positives."
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A10 Networks Lightning ADC is ranked 16th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 3 reviews while Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews. A10 Networks Lightning ADC is rated 7.0, while Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of A10 Networks Lightning ADC writes "Efficient application security while optimizing connections". On the other hand, 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". A10 Networks Lightning ADC is most compared with , whereas Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster.
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