We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Radware Alteon 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 solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"The updating and signature features are my primary use case for the solution. These features are beneficial to my organization."
"We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"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."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The product offers high availability."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"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."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"We've had some blocks of the application and some false positives."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"While the UI is good, it can get a little bit complicated."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"The solution could be more robust."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"It can be improved by combining the web application firewall (WAF) facility."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and AWS WAF, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and NGINX Plus. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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