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."Has a good dashboard."
"The product has fantastic support services."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of configuration."
"There is no one special feature, but the WAF itself is valuable: user-friendly protection against web attacks etc., authentication, reporting, accountability, alerting, and hardened OS."
"I find the solution very stable."
"The most valuable features are the client VPN and content filtering."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"The GUI makes it easy to scale in terms of learning and utilization."
"The most valuable feature is the attack signature and machine learning."
"The policies and the filtering are the most valuable features, especially traffic, URL, and application filtering. The solution is excellent at detecting vulnerabilities."
"It is easy to install and to maintain."
"The ease of configuration is valuable. We have Azure WAF, we have OCI WAF, and we also have Cloud Armor for GCP, but their configuration isn't very easy. It's pretty simple in FortiWeb, and we can enable or configure whatever we want."
"We were able to protect our web servers from outside attacks."
"Also, if you serve files or you accept files with your server, Fortiweb has built-in antivirus. The Fortinet product family also provides good IP intelligence (botnet C&C, etc.)."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"The documentation is lacking. It's not like what you'd get if you were using Juniper or Cisco. They need to expand on it and make it more useful."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"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."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"When we look at the incident reports in the dashboard, they are available for a maximum duration of 24 hours. They should provide more time for the analysis and increase the duration of the availability of these reports. Currently, it gives the options for 5 minutes, 1 hour, and 24 hours. It would be excellent if there are more options for a longer time period. It may be configurable, but I don't know how to do it."
"The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network."
"FortiWeb needs to have support for the newest technology being used in web applications."
"FortiWeb does not exist in a cloud-based form. Its only available for deployment as a virtual appliance on AWS and Azure IaaS platforms. Because of the trend to WAF environments, it would be good to have it as a SaaS. Also, FortiWeb would be more competitive if it combined WAF and DDoS protection."
"The documentation for the machine learning could be better."
"FortiGate could be improved on the security end because we've had some incidents with the customer. Otherwise, there is no problem."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, 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 "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". 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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