We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Imperva DDoS 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 significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"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."
"The solution offers multiple security features. There are machine learning features and great URL encryption. It also offers multi-protocol support against DDoS attacks."
"What I like most about Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its availability. I also like that it's an easy-to-use solution."
"Has a good dashboard."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service."
"The policy updates 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."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. 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 Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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