We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Imperva DDoS 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."It allows us to scale out to multiple phase servers."
"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."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"Has a good dashboard."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"Its recommendation about the probabilities on the website is great. It also has free probability managers for the website, which is really helpful. The protection engine, signature-based protection behavior, and analysis features are also great. It also has an ATP module for sandbox scanning and behavior analysis for file uploads."
"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."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"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."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"I would like to see a native multi-cloud cover."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"We encountered a few glitches while implementing API security features into the product."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"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."
"The documentation is lacking. It's not like what you'd get if you were using Juniper or Cisco. They need to expand on it and make it more useful."
"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."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"Users would benefit from better documentation. There is official documentation, but sometimes we need more detail. We have some use cases that are not so run of the mill. It would be great if there was a knowledge base that we could go to for more answers."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"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."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. 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 Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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