We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall 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."Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"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."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"The volumetric DDoS defense is very good because I had a problem with a lot of volumetric DDoS attacks on my servers. After using Barracuda, those attacks have stopped and all the traffic is going smoothly to my servers and the system is working really well."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"It is a SaaS solution unlike much of the competition."
"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."
"The solution protects our application, which runs on the HTTP protocol, from DDoS attacks."
"Technical support has a very fast response time and they are helpful."
"The product has improved our security posture by blocking bad actors."
"We extensively use the solution every day. The solution is very stable; we haven’t seen any glitches."
"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."
"It is configurable via API."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"The solution could use more reports."
"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"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 policy updates could be improved."
"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."
"I have experienced some difficulties with Cloudflare's support as a customer based in India."
"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."
"The blocked logs are difficult to read at times."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."
"If they add logs history within the Cloudflare offering, that would be a great benefit."
"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."
"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2. 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 Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall report.
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