We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Radware Alteon 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."This product gives us visibility into what is going on in two servers, including connections and sessions, real-time alerts, very good reporting, and KPIs. It makes managing security of a critical server very easy, with a friendly GUI."
"You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"The updating and signature features are my primary use case for the solution. These features are beneficial to my organization."
"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 most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"The features that mitigate attacks are very valuable."
"The product offers high availability."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"While the UI is good, it can get a little bit complicated."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"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."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"The solution could be more robust."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, HAProxy and AWS WAF, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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