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."One of the strongest points is its robust issue discovery capabilities. Barracuda invests significant efforts in identifying and resolving issues. They have multiple products that work in tandem to perform these checks, which is beneficial because it automates security updates. This is the primary reason I recommend it to my customers."
"There is no one special feature, but the WAF itself is valuable: user-friendly protection against web attacks etc., authentication, reporting, accountability, alerting, and hardened OS."
"It's very simple and predictable, because Barracuda provides a vision of the current state of your application. It gives you an understanding of what is happening on your site and any attempts against you at your source. This is the main value that Web Application Firewall provides our company. These aspects are also the main reason for this documentation process."
"Parameter Protection is a valuable feature."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"The installation is straightforward."
"Some of the most valuable features are the ease of deployment, the Barracuda support, the easy-to-use console, and the granularity of the reports."
"The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"Technical support is very good."
"FortiWeb is easy to operate with a reasonably high level of protection. FortiWeb provides multiple deployment options with a physical or virtual (FortiWeb-VM) appliance, and acts either as a reverse/transparent proxy or out-of-band. It is also available on AWS and Azure."
"It offers some feedback and suggestions that guide our system development while helping our vendors to update their applications and fix any issues or bugs."
"The customers are very happy with this solution because of two things. First, the IPS integration with a web application is very tightly done on Fortinet. Second, the ease of use is there. The management interface or the GUI interface is very easy to use, configure, and manage. These are the two main valuable features. It supports integration with other Fortinet products. It also integrates very well with the firewall and sandboxing technology. They already have enough integration with different technologies. They have got a complete tech intelligence view of the whole product."
"SSL Offloading simplifies the public certificate handling and brings additional protection features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the ease of integration and configuration."
"When it comes to blocking unknown threats and attacks, I would give it the highest score possible. We first started using AWS and its Web Application Firewalls. That was okay, but it was quite a manual process to keep it up to date, whereas Fortinet is always up to date, and the default rules or the modules that you can turn on are very easy to use."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"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 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."
"The reporting aspect of the solution needs improvement. I don't find that it's very good. They could do some work on it to make it much better. It's not that the reporting isn't secure. It's just that I would prefer to store my reports for an extended period of time. Right now, that's not possible and I'd prefer it if that could change. I also would say that the reports themselves are expensive."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
"We would like to know more about the integration with the hardware or security products, such as Gemalto, because we need to move to that point."
"A user interface or dashboard for troubleshooting is needed."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
"Fortinet FortiWeb needs to improve the way it's configured. Common services like publishing exchange should be done in one click only."
"It costs too much."
"It can be better with web application firewalls."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
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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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