We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiADC 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 most valuable feature is the rule set."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"The updating and signature features are my primary use case for the solution. These features are beneficial to my organization."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"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."
"Some of the most valuable features are the ease of deployment, the Barracuda support, the easy-to-use console, and the granularity of the reports."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"Because it is so generic, the documentation requires special attention. A person who has not worked on Fortinet FortiADC or a similar product will struggle to understand what the document is trying to say. The documentation could be more specific, and more detailed."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8. 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 Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and A10 Networks Thunder ADC.
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