We performed a comparison between Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service and Barracuda Web Application Firewall 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."It provides an ease of policy management."
"The product's bot protection feature is valuable for our company."
"I like its ability to identify known attacks, including DDOS attacks. It's valuable because software must be able to stop known attacks. Application attacks are evolving all the time. When it comes to software-as-a-service, we need to have software that knows about all the latest attacks. It should also protect against major unknown attacks."
"The most valuable features of the solution are it is plug and play, has automated policies, a simple configuration, and is easy to create rules."
"The solution can be used for threat prevention or as a cloud-to-cloud backup system"
"The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"The solution offers multiple security features. There are machine learning features and great URL encryption. It also offers multi-protocol support against DDoS attacks."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"It's a very specific solution that is only requested for a customer's web code or their global IT policy."
"We found it a bit slow when accessing it through the web browser. The URL also exposed the user name and the hashed password. When I log into my Barracuda WAF user portal, I could see the username and the hashed password on the URL itself. So, it is not very secure, and it is important to take that off."
"One significant area for improvement in Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service lies in its market positioning and pricing strategy."
"The solution can improve by bundling Security Operation Center (SOC) with the WAF-as-a-Service, it would provide a lot more value to customers."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"We encountered a few glitches while implementing API security features into the product."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
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Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is ranked 29th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 5 reviews while Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews. Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is rated 7.2, while Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service writes "Easy to install platform with valuable policy management features ". 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". Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster. See our Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service vs. Barracuda Web Application Firewall report.
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