We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, Imperva DDoS, and Loadbalancer.org based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Our customers value the solution's simplicity."
"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 initial setup is easy."
"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."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"The performance is good."
"Loadbalancer is easy to use. It performs well, with low latency."
"The user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are the ease of managing the logs on the WAFs, the ease to identify break-in attempts into the network, the front-end firewall, and a more specific firewall."
"Most important for us that it makes sure that the load is distributed and that we always have access to the end servers."
"The support we have received from Loadbalancer.org has been good."
"The SSL Layer 7 load balancing is valuable."
"We have about 30,000 connections going through at any one time and it's fine, it doesn't seem to sweat. It doesn't get overloaded."
"The solution could use more reports."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"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."
"It would be better if their updates would be released annually."
"One of Barracuda's limitations is its user interface. The GUI for configuration is not intuitive and has remained largely unchanged for the past 10 to 12 years."
"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."
"It's quite expensive."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"There are many features you can set in the backend of Loadbalancer. They should simplify the configuration. The administrator should be able to configure it more simply. How it is now, you can only configure it if you have a lot of experience."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"I'd like to see scalability improved; it can be costly."
"The solution can be a bit pricey."
"Loadbalancer.org's complexity could be reduced."
"The automatic refresh of the System Overview webpage: It sometimes has an extra webpage reload (after a change) before you see it is executed. This can be confusing."
"I would like it if Loadbalancer had the ability to make rules for specific shared bots."
"They're mostly designed to balance a particular type of traffic. I wanted to load balance DNS, and they just don't do it the way that we wanted to. So they're not used as DNS load balancers."
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