"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."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"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."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"The solution offers multiple security features. There are machine learning features and great URL encryption. It also offers multi-protocol support against DDoS attacks."
"It's very easy to configure."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its load balancing."
"The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable."
"I like app flows and custom flows. They integrate with multiple flows."
"The most valuable features are the VDA Delivery, Gateway Fort, and the load balancing."
"Compared to other solutions, Citrix ADC is much more robust in terms of the native integration to cloud platforms. It is far more robust from an operational point of view as well."
"High availability, performance, and security are the main pillars. It enhances the security for accessing the applications."
"It is simple for both IT specialists and customers."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"While the UI is good, it can get a little bit complicated."
"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."
"As most people are aware, the implementation is not easy."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"Integration with other third party providers and third party applications could be better because it can be a bit complex at present."
"There are certain features that are very useful and Citrix makes you pay a bit more for them."
"Overall the price of Citrix ADC could be more competitive."
"Native integration needs to be improved. You cannot build ISE codes natively. For DevOps, integration would be very helpful because it would be a lot simpler from an operational standpoint."
"They can improve the scalability and the multi-tenancy feature. We recently tried to configure an authentication, and we ran into some issues while using the web-based GUI. It was very slow when you log in with your credentials in the web-based GUI. Each time we clicked on the menu, it tried to do the authentication. It works properly in the console."
"An area for improvement would be the difficulty in finding information about standard licensing costs over the internet. They should provide some reference prices on the net to be quickly referred to."
"This is an expensive solution."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say the user interface because sometimes it can be complicated."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 12 reviews while Citrix ADC is ranked 4th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 21 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.0, while Citrix ADC is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda Web Application Firewall writes "Reliable and stable with a straightforward setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix ADC writes "A scalable and versatile solution that allows us to easily monitor and manage applications and publish to many devices". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, HAProxy and Azure Front Door, whereas Citrix ADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Barracuda Load Balancer ADC.
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