We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Cloudflare, and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 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)."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."
"The stability of the solution is good. I don't think we've experienced bugs, crashes, or glitches."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"I find the solution very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"This product gives us visibility into what is going on in two servers, including connections and sessions, real-time alerts, very good reporting, and KPIs. It makes managing security of a critical server very easy, with a friendly GUI."
"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers."
"The UI is good."
"Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. You don't necessarily need a certificate if you have a connection between your website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host."
"Smaller businesses have seen great ROI due to the low investment and strong performance."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"Currently, it's distributing the load perfectly, as per my understanding of our requirements."
"If I were to choose one key feature in particular, perhaps it would be the iRule feature. It’s a really versatile tool."
"BIG-IP can do anything. It's like a Swiss Army knife."
"The most valuable feature is the F5 LTM (Local Traffic Manager). This is the part of the product most organisations will be using most. It provides the core functionality to be able to load balance services and the means and the intelligence to be able to load balance based on advanced logic, e.g., TCL scripting."
"It is a very good, flexible solution. It helps us to catch up on flaws in our partner solutions on top of its load balancing feature."
"The stability is excellent."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"As most people are aware, the implementation is not easy."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see a native multi-cloud cover."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"They lack a good way to manage DNS as a company, since everything is relegated to single account logins until you get to the higher levels. They have come out with a paid feature to remedy this, but I have not had a chance to fully review it yet to know if it fixes the access problem."
"The pricing could be improved."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"Its scalability and deployment should be better. It should be more scalable, and it should be easier to deploy."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"For integration with other AWS environments, we do some tie-ins with some autoscaling groups. This has been challenging for us. We have had issues, where when autoscaling groups scale up, there are some instances which are not showing up in the proper size. Then, those IPs would get registered with F5, but never get released. Therefore, we are ending up with a whole bunch of ghosted IPs."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. It would be ideal if it was more reasonable."
"There is a need for a more modular version to concentrate on the current monolithic structure of both the virtual and hardware versions."
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