We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and NGINX App Protect 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."Parameter Protection is a valuable feature."
"The stability of the solution is good. I don't think we've experienced bugs, crashes, or glitches."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"Its recommendation about the probabilities on the website is great. It also has free probability managers for the website, which is really helpful. The protection engine, signature-based protection behavior, and analysis features are also great. It also has an ATP module for sandbox scanning and behavior analysis for file uploads."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance."
"NGINX App Protect's best features are auto-learning, which creates a profile of applications that are deployed, bot protection, and force protection, which lets you configure your brute force policy and alert for and prevent brute force attacks."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"The stability of the product is very impressive since it handles 60,000 to 70,000 requests or transactions per second."
"It has the best documentation features."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its open source."
"The initial setup was simple and took three to four days."
"NGINX App Protect has complete control over the HTTP session."
"There are some vulnerabilities that are reported across the tools offered by Barracuda for some devices, which need to be taken care of from an improvement perspective."
"In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"The solution could use more reports."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"Right now, the tool doesn't provide an option revolving around update feeds, specifically the signature update option in the UI."
"Setting policies and parameters through the UI should be more automated because the process is manual, where we can only edit one rule at a time."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
"I encountered issues with NGINX App Protect while trying to upgrade custom rules."
"It's challenging if you need to go for a high throughput."
"The setup of NGINX App Protect is complex. The full process took one week to complete. Additionally, we had to change the network infrastructure platform which took one month."
"Its technical support could be better."
"The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 19 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. 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 App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Noname Security. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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