We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Citrix NetScaler, and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"There is no one special feature, but the WAF itself is valuable: user-friendly protection against web attacks etc., authentication, reporting, accountability, alerting, and hardened OS."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"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."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"Provides resiliency for applications that reside on servers, as well as connectivity to remote applications."
"The load balancing is one of the most valuable features."
"Scalability is great. One of the best features of NetScaler is that it can scale out."
"The best feature of Citrix is its track record of stability in its features."
"The most valuable feature is load balancing."
"The web application firewalling component is a powerful feature."
"The maintenance of the solution is not complex."
"It is a very stable solution."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"Provides Anti-DDoS protection, as well as other protections like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and antiscanner. These types of protection are valuable to the business due to the daily attacks on our portals, and that often cannot be seen without a tool like this."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"DDoS protection and WAF are the most valuable features. It is easy to deploy a service. It is easy and quick to deploy to a new website."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"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."
"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."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"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."
"I think there is always room for improvement in this type of solutions. For example, I think the GUI should be easy to understand."
"The customization has always been a key area where some improvements are required. In the beginning, everything was for customizing the outer shell of it. You had to use the command-based utility and you had to do a lot of manual work. They have improved it a little bit and now there are some GUI-based functionalities that can be used. However, more can be done that doesn't require a lot of intervention. Right now there are some features, there are some customizations that can be done, but it's still very tedious, very cumbersome, a lot of work. So that could be simplified."
"Citrix ADC can improve if it provides a more user-friendly interface and clear working protocols. Citrix is not working with classic RFC, it is working with Citrix RFC, which is not common in the world. If engineers of Citrix can provide us with more information on working with the classic IP networks it would be a benefit."
"There are some features which are missing."
"There is room for improvement regarding the pricing policy for Citrix offices."
"We would like to see some fairly large scale improvement in the configuration process for this solution."
"Integration with other third party providers and third party applications could be better because it can be a bit complex at present."
"I would like to see support for scripting, like "iRule", which gives you the option to implement any configuration which is not available out of the box."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
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