We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and F5 Advanced WAF 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."We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"One of the strongest points is its robust issue discovery capabilities. Barracuda invests significant efforts in identifying and resolving issues. They have multiple products that work in tandem to perform these checks, which is beneficial because it automates security updates. This is the primary reason I recommend it to my customers."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"There is no need to worry about updating signatures because WAF will automatically update the signatures for you."
"The web application firewall itself is most valuable. It provides positive security and negative security. In negative security, it blocks a task such as cross-site scripting, code injection, etc. In positive security, it lets you specify and enforce things, such as the parameters allowed in username and password fields and the number of characters allowed in a field."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"The initial setup was was easy to install."
"The product has valuable features for load balancing, monitoring tools, and HPXpress services."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are SSL uploading, signature, and anomaly detection. It is overall a high-quality solution."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the security features and the protection."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"This product could easily progress to be among the industry leaders. I think they need to improve enterprise level automation. It integrates with a small number of vulnerability scanners, so report results should be imported manually; same for SIEM integration."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"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 solution could use more reports."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"We encountered a few glitches while implementing API security features into the product."
"I would not expect traffic details to pass through the web application firewall across the length of the whole application. I think that there is a web application where it can let the application function without traffic going in into the WAF."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"The overall price of F5 Advanced WAF could improve."
"I would say their graphical interface, the GUI. I don't like the GUI as much as before."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"People who want to work with the device have to be pro in Linux"
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6. 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 F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster and Radware Alteon, whereas F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Advanced WAF report.
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