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."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."
"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."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"The solution offers multiple security features. There are machine learning features and great URL encryption. It also offers multi-protocol support against DDoS attacks."
"It allows us to scale out to multiple phase servers."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Parameter Protection is a valuable feature."
"The installation is straightforward."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"The most valuable features are DDoS protection."
"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."
"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."
"I like the user-friendly interface."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"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."
"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."
"As most people are aware, the implementation is not easy."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"The reporting aspect of the solution needs improvement. I don't find that it's very good. They could do some work on it to make it much better. It's not that the reporting isn't secure. It's just that I would prefer to store my reports for an extended period of time. Right now, that's not possible and I'd prefer it if that could change. I also would say that the reports themselves are expensive."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"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."
"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."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"It's quite expensive."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, 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 A10 Networks Thunder ADC, 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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