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."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."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"The most valuable features are the client VPN and content filtering."
"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"Parameter Protection is a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"We run it with no downtime, because it has good support."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"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."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"The features that mitigate attacks are very valuable."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"I would like to see a native multi-cloud cover."
"Sometimes when we put it in action, we have some blogs that appear as false positives. I think that it's improving. Barracuda should minimize false positives."
"The solution could use more reports."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"The solution could be more robust."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 13 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 21 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.0, 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 "Cost-effective, reduces downtime, and allows third-party SSL integration". 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 Fortinet FortiWeb. See our Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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