We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb 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."Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"Has a good dashboard."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"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."
"It allows us to scale out to multiple phase servers."
"The stability of the solution is good. I don't think we've experienced bugs, crashes, or glitches."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"Technical support is very good."
"The solution has a very simple deployment."
"The most valuable feature is that this product represents a whole solution, including a WAF, and even anti-defacements."
"FortiGate is a stable product."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"Other than the additional security with exploit protection, we have simpler certificate handling, as we can keep internal servers using internal certificates continuously distributed and updated by Active Directory Group Policy, while the public certificates become updated only in a single place, FortiWeb itself."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"I would like to see a native multi-cloud cover."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"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."
"In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service."
"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."
"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."
"The product’s stability could be improved."
"I would like to have an antivirus option."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
"The GUI could be better. It's limited."
"The initial setup process could be improved."
"The memory use in each of the appliances is problematic."
"It costs too much."
"The false positives are annoying."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster and Radware Alteon, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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