We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare 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."The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"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."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"The solution is very good at mitigating threats."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Cloudflare allows us to self-host services such as Rocket.Chat and Node-RED, in high-availability mode, thanks to round robin DNS which allows us to share one hostname between our two locations."
"I like Cloudflare's application gateway and DDoS protection."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."
"What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering, so it's a valuable tool."
"In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"The solution could use more reports."
"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."
"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."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"Latencies are always a problem."
"It would be good if Cloudflare could have more servers for better traffic routing or an increase in the traffic routed. This is what I'd like to improve in Cloudflare."
"DNS Management."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 56 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cloudflare is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Imperva DDoS, whereas Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Cloudflare report.
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