We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb 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."We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"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."
"The installation is straightforward."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"Has a good dashboard."
"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 most valuable feature is the rule set."
"The solution is easy to configure and deploy."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is priced well."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"The solution is stable."
"The policies and the filtering are the most valuable features, especially traffic, URL, and application filtering. The solution is excellent at detecting vulnerabilities."
"The support is quite good."
"What we like about Fortinet FortiWeb is it has all the features. We use all of them, so we have to turn on all the options."
"I would like to see a native multi-cloud cover."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"An area for improvement in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is attack identification. Other banks identified attacks and tracked logs that the solution wasn't able to identify because of its ready-made rules pre-deployed by the vendor. My organization raised this issue with the technical support team. Another area to improve in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its service desk. The team resorted to stonewalling because they couldn't accept that a feature was missing in the solution, and it was only after a lot of drilling down that the service desk team accepted that, and would be adding that feature in the future. My organization had to submit a report to the Reserve Bank of India with information on the logs identified and the attacks that happened, and that there was a failure on the part of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. The Reserve Bank of India conducts a tri-monthly cyber risk audit in all Indian banks. Even smaller banks identified and caught attacks that my organization wasn't able to do, so I was looking into other solutions that competitor banks could be using because Barracuda Web Application Firewall failed to identify some of the attacks."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"The solution could have more customization."
"The automation piece can be improved. Although they say it can be automated very well, there is still manual work. Its usability should be improved in terms of automation because we want to build an infrastructure with code, but you can't do that easily with this solution. If they can give us APIs in the firewalls that we can tap into, it would be perfect."
"They could improve their support a little bit for faster response time."
"In my experience, Fortinet FortiWeb could improve the intelligent features to acknowledge whether any threat or incident that's running happened. Then give us the ability to escalate it to layer 2 or layer 3 in the network operations."
"Fortinet FortiWeb could improve data integration."
"We want to see more detailed logging, such as audit logging, as this would significantly enhance the solution's reporting. We currently get some information from logs, but more would be better."
"Most of the deployment is done by our development team because they have some parameters that match the configuration. However, when we initially did the deployment we used a consultant company."
"The GUI could be better. It's limited."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 13 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 26 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. 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 FortiWeb writes "It comes with several preconfigured rule sets and templates that make deploying new applications easier". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster and Radware Alteon, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiOS. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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