We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"The initial setup is easy."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"Valuable features include authentication, caching, reverse proxy routing, and load balancing."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"I need to highlight that the number one thing about NGINX is that it is free."
"This solution has everything."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"I have found F5 more stable than Barracuda Web Application Firewall. They should improve the stability."
"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."
"I would suggest that someone implementing this product is knowledgeable in the IT field, and with the network needs. It is complex."
"We encountered a few glitches while implementing API security features into the product."
"This product could easily progress to be among the industry leaders. I think they need to improve enterprise level automation. It integrates with a small number of vulnerability scanners, so report results should be imported manually; same for SIEM integration."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks."
"NGINX is a very basic load balancer and cannot do as many customizations as F5."
"Only improvement needed that I would point to is scalability. With it, I mean clusterized organisation on a low level. At the moment, the best alternative is RHEL HA."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"The drawback is that you must obtain a license for everything."
"If NGINX brings some features for health check in the open source version, it would be better. "
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"The scalability could be improved."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 27 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. 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 NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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