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."The updating and signature features are my primary use case for the solution. These features are beneficial to my organization."
"Its recommendation about the probabilities on the website is great. It also has free probability managers for the website, which is really helpful. The protection engine, signature-based protection behavior, and analysis features are also great. It also has an ATP module for sandbox scanning and behavior analysis for file uploads."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"The initial setup is easy."
"This product gives us visibility into what is going on in two servers, including connections and sessions, real-time alerts, very good reporting, and KPIs. It makes managing security of a critical server very easy, with a friendly GUI."
"We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"High-performance and detection engines, provide a high rate of exposure of web attacks."
"Built-in security templates, AV integrated, strong threat intelligence."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"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."
"Some of the threat detection analytics and the filtering capabilities they give us for filtering a certain type of information that we don't want coming into the site are its valuable features. The analytics are pretty good in terms of being able to see what threats have been detected and mitigated, where they're coming from, and things like that."
"Both the internal firewall management and the cloud can be managed by a single console."
"The policies and the filtering are the most valuable features, especially traffic, URL, and application filtering. The solution is excellent at detecting vulnerabilities."
"The solution is stable."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"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."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"We've had some blocks of the application and some false positives."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"The reporting could be optimized."
"Lacks a VM demo to enable testing prior to purchase."
"For advanced users, it would be really useful to have access and the ability to manipulate packets. If we can access and manipulate the contents of packets, even encrypted packets... that would be powerful. Since we're looking at packets arriving at our network, we would have the private key to access those packets and their information."
"It costs too much."
"New releases and old releases have some bugs, some features do not work as good as we want but every new release the Fortinet team fixes up problems."
"In my experience, Fortinet FortiWeb could improve the intelligent features to acknowledge whether any threat or incident that's running happened. Then give us the ability to escalate it to layer 2 or layer 3 in the network operations."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
"The Layer 7 DDoS attacks need improvement, it could be better."
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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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