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."The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"The solution offers multiple security features. There are machine learning features and great URL encryption. It also offers multi-protocol support against DDoS attacks."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The updating and signature features are my primary use case for the solution. These features are beneficial to my organization."
"The product has fantastic support services."
"Parameter Protection is a valuable feature."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"The product offers high availability."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"The solution could be more robust."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"It can be improved by combining the web application firewall (WAF) facility."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 15th 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, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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