We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."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."
"Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I think installation only took a couple of minutes — no more than 10 minutes."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"When I worked in a security research center, we tested NGINX to support DoS and DDoS attacks, and its results were great."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"Its most valuable features are load balancing and application delivery. This is the most efficient application for these features because of stability and its efficiency."
"The product is resilient."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"While the UI is good, it can get a little bit complicated."
"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."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"I would like to see a native multi-cloud cover."
"They could improve their performance, support, and their upgrades. Their updates used to be good. Their improvements were right on the money but nowadays, the updates are minor."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The biggest room for improvement would be to allow NGINX Core machines to cluster for memory zones in some way with a plug and play module. "
"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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