We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Symantec Web Application Firewall 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)."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."
"Has a good dashboard."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"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."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The setup was straightforward."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"The solution could use more reports."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"I have issues with the load balancing of the solution which is slow. The connection pooling in Barracuda also doesn't work. There is an issue when someone needs access to a site quickly. The issue is with HTTPS services. I am not sure if they have changed all these in the solution’s latest version."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 37th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Symantec Web Application Firewall 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WAPPLES.
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