We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Citrix NetScaler, and Imperva DDoS 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 solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"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."
"I find the solution very stable."
"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 updating and signature features are my primary use case for the solution. These features are beneficial to my organization."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"What I like most about Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its availability. I also like that it's an easy-to-use solution."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"For desktop application management, I recommend the NetScaler edition. This product is like a Swiss army knife. Citrix NetScaler ADC supports the education front-end."
"Load Balancing and SSL offloading are key features."
"The web application firewalling component is a powerful feature."
"Its flexibility, agility, and robustness are the most valuable. Its management and implementation are also quite easy."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its load balancing."
"Compared to other solutions, Citrix ADC is much more robust in terms of the native integration to cloud platforms. It is far more robust from an operational point of view as well."
"One feature that works really well is the SSL VPN. It's very easy to set up and you can go very granular with it. You can define what user groups get what kind of access and the management overhead is very low."
"The most valuable features of Citrix ADC are load balancing and application firewall."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"Gives us the ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"I would like to see better controlling of the traffic."
"The solution could use more reports."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"I would like to see multifactor authentication added to this solution to improve the security."
"The customization has always been a key area where some improvements are required. In the beginning, everything was for customizing the outer shell of it. You had to use the command-based utility and you had to do a lot of manual work. They have improved it a little bit and now there are some GUI-based functionalities that can be used. However, more can be done that doesn't require a lot of intervention. Right now there are some features, there are some customizations that can be done, but it's still very tedious, very cumbersome, a lot of work. So that could be simplified."
"Finding relevant documentation for learning NetScaler can be challenging, especially for beginners who prefer a web interface over command-line interfaces."
"Technical support could be improved."
"In every release - and it doesn't matter if it's a minor release or a major release - they keep moving things around and they keep changing the mechanism. So certain things can work in one version one way, and everything works really well, then when you upgrade it to the next version, it breaks everything because they have a new way of doing it."
"I would like to see more integration for single sign-on."
"We would like the licensing model for this product to be improved, as it isn't currently very transparent. There isn't a standard package available, and each extra feature creates an additional cost."
"The solution could be more secure."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"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."
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