Fastly Next-Gen WAF and Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service compete in the web application firewall category. Barracuda appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features.
Features: Fastly offers dynamic protection, real-time security insights, and a focus on scalability. Barracuda provides extensive security controls, automated threat protection, and user-friendly policies.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fastly enables quick setup with real-time security management and strong integration capabilities. Barracuda provides streamlined deployment and intuitive management, ensuring efficient onboarding and support.
Pricing and ROI: Fastly's costs align with scalability and integration, offering consistent ROI. Barracuda offers competitive pricing with high initial costs but faster ROI due to comprehensive features.
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is a comprehensive solution designed to provide application security, DDoS protection, SSL authentication, protocol support, and application delivery. It is a plug-and-play solution with automated policies, simple configuration, and easy rule creation.
The solution can be used for threat prevention or as a cloud-to-cloud backup system based on email protection with cloud security. It is also a web application firewall and covers major protection and threat management functions. With Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service, customers can ensure the security of their web code and comply with global IT policies.
The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) provides web application and API protection, RASP, rate limiting, bot protection and DDoS purpose built to eliminate the challenges of legacy WAF.
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