We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable feature is the rule set."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the client VPN and content filtering."
"Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"The stability of the solution is good. I don't think we've experienced bugs, crashes, or glitches."
"The F5 interface is easy to use."
"Where we are finding the AWS version helpful is when we are trying to scale up new environments. AWS Marketplace helps here a lot."
"ASM for WAF."
"F5 Big-IP Local Traffic Manager has better modular features especially LTM, which according to the clients, is very beneficial. Most of the users opt for a combination of big IP LTM and WAF which helps them to leverage application load balancing and enhance application security many-fold."
"BIG-IP LTM is completely stable, and its performance is good."
"In my team, we work in a very agile environment and the solutions from BIG-IP, including BIG-IP WAF, suit us well when developing and serving our applications."
"The solution has good load balancing capabilities."
"It has helped a lot to protect our organization from external attacks, especially XSS or XSRF types of attacks."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy."
"We encountered a few glitches while implementing API security features into the product."
"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"The solution could use more reports."
"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."
"This is a very expensive solution."
"Certificate management needs improvement. I would like automated deployment of new certificates without manual intervention to be in the next release of this product."
"Performance: Using the product, applications are jittery."
"If we decide to migrate to the cloud, I don't think that BIG-IP is a good solution and we probably won't use it."
"I would like to see better integration."
"Security and Reporting."
"I would like them to expand load balancing, being able to go across multiple regions to on-premise and into the cloud. This could use improvement, as it is sometimes a little cumbersome."
"F5 BIG-IP LTM can improve on the SSL loading which includes the authentication of certificates. Although, most of these issues have been solved there are still some issue that persists."
"It's quite expensive."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"Imperva always needs to adjust to new versions of cyber attacks, it needs to be faster, improve the resiliency of the software of the solution."
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