We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks 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."What I like most about Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its availability. I also like that it's an easy-to-use solution."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"If an attack is coming continuously, you can ask the device to block it temporarily for two to three minutes. F5 has not provided us with an option to block certain IPs for some time. Barracuda can help you block someone if the source is from a different IP. You can apply the rule to the device and block it for whatsoever time you want. The solution will unblock the IP after the prescribed time as well."
"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."
"The solution offers multiple security features. There are machine learning features and great URL encryption. It also offers multi-protocol support against DDoS attacks."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"It allows us to scale out to multiple phase servers."
"CSPM is very useful because it gives us good policies and violation alerts."
"It helps to identify the misconfigurations by monitoring regularly which helps to secure the organization's cloud environment."
"The solution gives us a lot of visibility across all of our cloud solutions."
"Comprehensive and valuable for providing security. It is scalable, its stability is impressive, and setting it up is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the alerts and auto-remediation because it allows us a lot of flexibility to customize and do things the Palo Alto team never intended. We faced some challenges with certificates because we also have next-gen firewalls. We would like to equip all the traffic because there have been many cases in which the developers have done things by mistake. Deploying certificates on virtual machines can be complex in a development environment, but we managed to do that with Prisma Cloud."
"Configuration monitoring and alerting is the most valuable feature; it happens at the cloud's speed, allowing our development team to respond quickly. If a configuration goes against our security best practices, we're alerted promptly and can act to resolve the issue. As cloud security staff, we're not staring at the cloud all the time, and we want to let the developers do their jobs so that our company is protected and work is proceeding within our security controls."
"It provides good visibility and control regardless of the complexity."
"The most valuable features of Prisma Cloud are its cloud security posture management and cloud workload protection capabilities."
"As most people are aware, the implementation is not easy."
"There are some vulnerabilities that are reported across the tools offered by Barracuda for some devices, which need to be taken care of from an improvement perspective."
"We encountered a few glitches while implementing API security features into the product."
"I would like to see a native multi-cloud cover."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"We've had some blocks of the application and some false positives."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"The area for improvement is less about the product and more about the upsell. If we've already agreed that we'd like your product x, y, or z, don't try to add fries to my burger. I don't need it."
"They could improve more features for the enterprise version of the solution."
"A better correlation between the multiple products Prisma Cloud contains would be crucial. It would reduce the time spent looking at reports and enable you to get all the actionable insights across products. I think that Palo Alto is working on it, but they need to work faster because it doesn't make sense to have all these products in a single pane of glass without any correlation between them."
"The user interface should be improved and made easier."
"It can be too expensive for small companies."
"The regional cost of Prisma Cloud in South Africa is high and could be improved."
"I would like to see the inclusion of automated counter-attack, although this is probably illegal."
"We have discovered that Prisma is not functioning properly with GCP."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 82 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks 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 Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks report.
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