We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and F5 Advanced WAF 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."You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"The most valuable features are the client VPN and content filtering."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"The stability of the solution is good. I don't think we've experienced bugs, crashes, or glitches."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the easy identification of events and customization. We can pinpoint our settings."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"This solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security."
"My favorite feature of F5 is the ability to play around with the ciphers. I also like the ability to have an immediate display of the support IDs when a real blockage occurs. The protection offered is great."
"The most valuable features of the F5 Advanced WAF are the enhanced ASM and the performance. Additionally, the usability and effectiveness are very good."
"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"The solution is stable."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"As most people are aware, the implementation is not easy."
"We've had some blocks of the application and some false positives."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"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."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"F5 Advanced WAF needs better integration within the application, like remote dashboards."
"There should be more ability to rate limit certain scenarios. The majority of the time, it is either on or off. For certain types of use cases, there should be the ability to rate limit, not just enable or disable."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"The overall price of F5 Advanced WAF could improve."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve resource usage, it is CPU intensive. Additionally, adding automated remediation would be a benefit. For example, an easy button alerts us of the events that are occurring, and what we want to do at the time. An automated approach where somebody could be alerted very quickly. Instead of going and reconfiguring everything, an automated approach is what I'm looking at."
"It's sometimes difficult to customize APIs with F5 Advanced WAF."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6. 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 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster and Radware Alteon, whereas F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Advanced WAF report.
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