We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Radware Alteon 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."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"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."
"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."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."
"While the UI is good, it can get a little bit complicated."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"A feature that I would like to see included in the next version might be a better analysis when working with crypt issues. Right now, it is very manual; you load it into Alteon and it runs. It would be interesting to see a more dynamic process."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and AWS WAF, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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