We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The installation is straightforward."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"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."
"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."
"LTM's most valuable features include application security, data collection, and parameter-level rules."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"ASM for WAF."
"It has so many features. First of all, it has a full proxy architecture, it has multiple modules. The best feature is the WAF, the web application firewall module. It also has cashing type capabilities. It has all kinds of load-balancing algorithms based on your IT requirements."
"BIG-IP can do anything. It's like a Swiss Army knife."
"NetFlow balancing and traffic balancing are good features."
"The solution is very easy to use and easy to understand. It's quite an intuitive system."
"The combination of ADC and WAN is good."
"IncapRules is one of the most valuable features, as you can create your own security and access control rules on top of your security policy. Using IncapRules we were able to easily block Layer 7 DDoS attacks several times."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"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."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view."
"I have issues with the load balancing of the solution which is slow. The connection pooling in Barracuda also doesn't work. There is an issue when someone needs access to a site quickly. The issue is with HTTPS services. I am not sure if they have changed all these in the solution’s latest version."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"The solution could improve the documentation."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"I would like F5 to incorporate the ability to create your own custom roles and customised permissions within the product set. I have seen many customers wanting to give a certain level of access for the purposes of out-of-hours servicing to out-of-hours staff or teams that fulfill an operations type role."
"The web interface could be better."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
"The management interface is unclear, complex, and not concise. I would like a better user interface."
"LTM would be improved with the inclusion of signature-based blocking."
"F5 BIG-IP LTM can improve on the SSL loading which includes the authentication of certificates. Although, most of these issues have been solved there are still some issue that persists."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"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."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"It's quite expensive."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
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