We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiADC 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)."The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"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."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"It allows us to scale out to multiple phase servers."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"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."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"As most people are aware, the implementation is not easy."
"In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8. 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 Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and A10 Networks Thunder ADC.
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