We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 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 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."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"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."
"The product has fantastic support services."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"Our experience has been very good, in terms of performance, and securing our application infrastructure."
"You can create multiple virtual servers on F5 BIG-IP technology, and within multiple virtual servers you can have multiple nodes, where a node equals two application servers."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The product is quite flexible."
"Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"Routing and load balancing are its most valuable features."
"We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"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."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service."
"I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"For integration with other AWS environments, we do some tie-ins with some autoscaling groups. This has been challenging for us. We have had issues, where when autoscaling groups scale up, there are some instances which are not showing up in the proper size. Then, those IPs would get registered with F5, but never get released. Therefore, we are ending up with a whole bunch of ghosted IPs."
"The UI could be improved."
"Needs to provide a visual interface to follow a customer's activity (from client to BIG-IP to SNAT IP to the chosen server, then back). Today, we are still performing packet captures."
"While the licensing is good through the AWS Marketplace, it is more expensive than what you could buy yourself."
"The user interface of F5 BIG-IP LTM is old and could improve."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"The initial setup can take a long time."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. 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 F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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