We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"What I like most about Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its availability. I also like that it's an easy-to-use solution."
"If an attack is coming continuously, you can ask the device to block it temporarily for two to three minutes. F5 has not provided us with an option to block certain IPs for some time. Barracuda can help you block someone if the source is from a different IP. You can apply the rule to the device and block it for whatsoever time you want. The solution will unblock the IP after the prescribed time as well."
"Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"Parameter Protection is a valuable feature."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"There is no one special feature, but the WAF itself is valuable: user-friendly protection against web attacks etc., authentication, reporting, accountability, alerting, and hardened OS."
"The product has fantastic support services."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"It's lightweight software that can handle heavy loads efficiently."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"This solution has everything."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"NGINX works much better than HAProxy in our current hardware and architecture for HTTP/HTTPS load balancing. "
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"An area for improvement in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is attack identification. Other banks identified attacks and tracked logs that the solution wasn't able to identify because of its ready-made rules pre-deployed by the vendor. My organization raised this issue with the technical support team. Another area to improve in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its service desk. The team resorted to stonewalling because they couldn't accept that a feature was missing in the solution, and it was only after a lot of drilling down that the service desk team accepted that, and would be adding that feature in the future. My organization had to submit a report to the Reserve Bank of India with information on the logs identified and the attacks that happened, and that there was a failure on the part of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. The Reserve Bank of India conducts a tri-monthly cyber risk audit in all Indian banks. Even smaller banks identified and caught attacks that my organization wasn't able to do, so I was looking into other solutions that competitor banks could be using because Barracuda Web Application Firewall failed to identify some of the attacks."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"They could improve their performance, support, and their upgrades. Their updates used to be good. Their improvements were right on the money but nowadays, the updates are minor."
"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."
"They should do in the open source version of what they did to Advanced HTTP, TCP, and UDP load balancing."
"It would be great if there was even more automation to make it even easier to maintain."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". 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 NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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