We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Citrix NetScaler, and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"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."
"It's very simple and predictable, because Barracuda provides a vision of the current state of your application. It gives you an understanding of what is happening on your site and any attempts against you at your source. This is the main value that Web Application Firewall provides our company. These aspects are also the main reason for this documentation process."
"Easy, user-friendly setup with content switching and integrated caching features."
"The GSLB feature allows us to move services between data centers. We can do this in either a planned or unplanned manner. We have experienced service provider outages at our primary data center and GSLB will kick in to automatically modify DNS records to point to a secondary data center (active/passive). We also make use of GeoIP information to point clients to the closest data center for accessing applications."
"The most valuable features of Citrix ADC are load balancing and application firewall."
"Unified Gateway allows me to provide secure external access to applications for suppliers and customers while requiring Multi-Factor Authentication."
"The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable."
"This solution allows the user to easily scale out application delivery, and provides secure remote access."
"Citrix NetScaler offers robust security features, including SmartAccess and customizable policies, making it a reliable choice for safeguarding user data."
"I would say the rewriting and redirection functions are must-have's for us."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"We are fond of the load balancing feature for DNS and servers."
"BIG-IP can do anything. It's like a Swiss Army knife."
"Stable and scalable network traffic management solution for applications. It has good performance."
"The product is quite flexible."
"We have multiple solutions we can deploy through the F5."
"BIG-IP LTM is completely stable, and its performance is good."
"It supports APIs and virtual additions for cloud and VMware."
"They could improve their performance, support, and their upgrades. Their updates used to be good. Their improvements were right on the money but nowadays, the updates are minor."
"We've had some blocks of the application and some false positives."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"There are some vulnerabilities that are reported across the tools offered by Barracuda for some devices, which need to be taken care of from an improvement perspective."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"Too many bugs in the software and it's always difficult when you need to update."
"The solution could be more secure."
"Does not include security. A web application firewall would be a nice addition."
"I would like to see them make it easier to do some of the more complex things. For example, a web re-direct requires two pieces to it. You have two ports and when people want to go to a web page, they just type in the webpage that on the backend it will redirect them to a secure link. The initial setup of that is cumbersome because you have to do it twice. There are things that can be replicated. The IP address, for example, is the same. This change would go a long way. Don't make me do it twice and don't make me have to read tons of documentation to figure out how to do it. Ease of configuration for some of the more complex processes would be a good improvement."
"In every release - and it doesn't matter if it's a minor release or a major release - they keep moving things around and they keep changing the mechanism. So certain things can work in one version one way, and everything works really well, then when you upgrade it to the next version, it breaks everything because they have a new way of doing it."
"We would like the licensing model for this product to be improved, as it isn't currently very transparent. There isn't a standard package available, and each extra feature creates an additional cost."
"We have issues with the certificates. All authorization processes need certificates, however, every three months we needed to change certificates. This process iss complicated for us because Citrix does not have a not user-friendly interface and does not off user-friendly services. This needs a lot of improvement."
"We would like to see some fairly large scale improvement in the configuration process for this solution."
"Certificate management needs improvement. I would like automated deployment of new certificates without manual intervention to be in the next release of this product."
"The product is expensive."
"Lacking in free training to help users understand the product more, so they would know how to correctly use it. Like other vendors and their products, becoming more proactive is an area for improvement."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would expect more integration with different platforms and more integration with the backend systems. Additionally, in the next release, I would like a more secure version."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"The synchronization does works fairly well. However, if I were to make changes, I would make it easier to start the sync process."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is expensive. Pricing needs to be improved."
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