We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Imperva DDoS, and Loadbalancer.org 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)."Parameter Protection is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"It allows us to scale out to multiple phase servers."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"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."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"It is a stable solution."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."
"The support we have received from Loadbalancer.org has been good."
"I found scalability in Loadbalancer.org valuable."
"We can more easily set up a test environment, because you can easily configure your forms. It makes it more flexible for us, to convert our test environment to a production environment, without having to change DNSs on the outside. You just configure the forms on the inside. So without changing the actual endpoint for the end user, we can create completely different networks in the background."
"Loadbalancer.org is less complex than Citrix."
"The connection that this solution helps our servers maintain has been most useful."
"The SSL Layer 7 load balancing is valuable."
"We now get notifications when pool members go down, and we eliminate our downtime by not sending traffic to downed pool members."
"It does what it’s supposed to do which is balancing an important intranet site we are using, so if one server dies, the second becomes active straight away."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"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."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"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."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"It's quite expensive."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"There are many features you can set in the backend of Loadbalancer. They should simplify the configuration. The administrator should be able to configure it more simply. How it is now, you can only configure it if you have a lot of experience."
"Possibly a more graphical overview page (with colors) to give a two second overview to see if everything is working fine."
"I would like a notification when a new version of the software is available. They told me to sign up for their newsletter, but I have not received any notification for a newer software version."
"Loadbalancer.org's complexity could be reduced."
"An area for improvement in Loadbalancer.org is that sometimes it works fine, but sometimes, it has issues. The setup for Loadbalancer.org is also complex, so that's another area for improvement."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"If I have to say something, I suppose they could add an automated configuration backup to an FTP location (or something similar) so you don’t have to manually do it. I don’t see this as a problem, of course, as the configuration rarely changes and we only need one backup, but maybe for other users that feature would be handy."
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