Compare Barracuda Networks vs Rapid7

Barracuda Networks Based on 26 reviews.	Rapid7 Based on 15 reviews.
Overview
Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a company providing security, networking and storage products based on network appliances and cloud services. The company's security products include products for protection against email, web surfing, web hackers and instant messaging threats such as spam, spyware, trojans, and viruses. The company's networking and storage products include web filtering, load balancing, application delivery controllers, message archiving, NG firewalls, backup services and data protection.	Information Not Available
Sample Customers
Barracuda Vulnerability Manager: AWS Barracuda Web Application Firewall: Oracle, CBS, Pioneer, Hyundai, Publix, Barnes Noble, Calzedonia, Nordstrom, Samsung, Nascar	Rapid7 AppSpider: Microsoft
Popular Solutions
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall 7 reviews Barracuda Backup 3 reviews Barracuda Web Application Firewall 3 reviews	Rapid7 InsightIDR 6 reviews Rapid7 InsightOps 5 reviews Rapid7 InsightVM 2 reviews
Top Comparisons
F5 BIG-IP vs. Barracuda Web Application Firewall Compared 32% of the time. Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall vs. Barracuda Vulnerability Manager Compared 29% of the time.	Checkmarx vs. Rapid7 AppSpider Compared 59% of the time.
Top Industries
Financial Services Firm 12% Comms Service Provider 11% Transportation Company 8% Healthcare Company 7%	Financial Services Firm 30% Comms Service Provider 11% Marketing Services Firm 10% Healthcare Company 9%

Quotes From Member Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri
Head of Cyber Security at KPMG Pakistan
What is most valuable?: The Anomaly-based spam detection is a very good feature of Barracuda Spam & Virus...
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Mohamed Othman
Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company
What is our primary use case?: I have two primary use cases, one for a bank and the other one for an operator. I...
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Anonymous User
Systems Engineer at a university
What is most valuable?: The superior support from Barracuda in setting up, using, and helping with issues for the...
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Israel Caravantes
COO at i-Track Systems Development, S.A. de C.V.
What is our primary use case?: We implement it for customers. We have some customers in Mexico who need that kind...
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BrianRogalski
Solutions Engineer at a tech services company
What is our primary use case?: We're using it for web filtering and blocking of sites that we don't want to allow...
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Chad Kliewer
Information Security Officer at a comms service provider
What is our primary use case?: I was looking for a behavior analytics solution to help me monitor our users'...
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Anonymous User
Information Security Manager at a non-tech company
What is our primary use case?: Our primary use case is looking for people who are using Tor, or VPNs generally, and...
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CyberSecurity33
Cyber Security Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm
How has it helped my organization?: We have a lot of mobile users who are not always on our network, and this gave...
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Customer Service

Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri
Head of Cyber Security at KPMG Pakistan
Best.
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Richard Snel
Automation Specialist at a tech services company
Support is really great as we are a a diamond partner.
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Matthew McEnroe
Pre-Sales Consultant at Tarsus Cloud On Demand
Customer Service: With the level of customer service from Barracuda I would rate them an 8/10. We find them polite...
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Dragoslav Vasiljevic
System & Network Engineer at a financial services firm
On a scale from one to 10, my rating is an eight. Level 1 and 2 of their support are good, but if you want serious...
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Tim Lillis
Sr. System Engineer at a non-tech company
Excellent. For every ticket we open, the response is very quick.
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Luciano Morales
IT Infrastucture - Cloud Admin at Primary S.A.
Customer Service: Nil, here in Argentina, the distributor was limited to providing the price of the product. We had...
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Matthew McEnroe
Pre-Sales Consultant at Tarsus Cloud On Demand
Customer Service: With the level of customer service from Barracuda I would rate them an 8/10. We find them polite...
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Taradutt Pant
Founder at let's-ConnectIndia
I would say technical support is lacking. They don't have strong technical support; their abilities are not so good....
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Anonymous User
Director of IT at Superfeet Worldwide Inc.
The technical support is good.
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NetworkAdmin77
Network Administrator at a software R&D company
I would rate the technical support nine out of 10.
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IT432a5D
IT Security Administrator at a tech services company
Technical support is very good.
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BrianRogalski
Solutions Engineer at a tech services company
We were in touch with tech support in our attempts to move Barracuda to our new platform, unsuccessfully. I would...
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SecurityEng850
Security Engineer at a tech services company
Customer Service: 5/10. Technical Support: 7/10.
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Anonymous User
Sr ICT Consultant at ditp
Customer Service: I’ve been in IT for nearly 40 years, and I’ve had my share of dealings with “service/support...
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Anonymous User
IT Consultant - Network Admin at a financial services firm
Customer Service: 9/10. Technical Support: 9/10.
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Mohamed Othman
Network & Security Engineer at a tech services company
Best support I have ever seen. I have experience with several products and their support. Barracuda support is very...
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Anonymous User
Systems Engineer at a university
Better than a 10 out of 10. Their support is absolutely the best in the business.
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Anonymous User
Director of Systems Infrastructure at a tech vendor
Their technical support is great.
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MaheshMashalkar
Account Manager
Awareness about the product is limited to the OEM technical team, though the product is fantastic.
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Anonymous User
Operations Manager at a tech services company
I did not have any direct experience with technical support.
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Israel Caravantes
COO at i-Track Systems Development, S.A. de C.V.
When we buy the device for the customer, we buy the Enhanced Support, the extended support contract, 24/7 support....
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Josh Serna
Information Security Systems Administrator at a non-tech company
The technical support is a solid 10 out of 10 as they take the time to answer any questions or problems which may...
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Chad Kliewer
Information Security Officer at a comms service provider
The technical support folks at Rapid7 are a great bunch of folks. I haven’t had much need to contact them, but when I...
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Aaron Harris
Information Security Officer at a tech vendor
Technical support is excellent both technically, timely, and professional throughout any incident or enhancement...
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Birzu Alexandru-Adrian
ITSM & AntiFraud Consultant
Customer Service: i'll rate is 10/10. I had some presentation with them, and the person who presented us the solution...
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Anonymous User
Information Security Officer at a tech services company
Good. I mainly asked for some tech support when I was in the testing phase. I don't really know how to assess it. I...
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Sandro Sandro
InfoSec Consultant at a tech services company
Maybe I'm biased because of the beta program, but the support is very quick and competent. Also, the Rapid7 community...
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Anonymous User
Application Security Engineer at a tech services company
It's fair, although more in-depth usage case studies and documentation are offered for a purchased licence.
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Anonymous User
Security Manager
The technical support can be considered competent. However, they can be slow to discover solutions to tricky problems.
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Anonymous User
Information Security Manager at a tech vendor
Technical support for InsightIDR has been fantastic. We've used Rapid7 for over a year now, and, while support calls...
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CyberSecurity33
Cyber Security Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm
I have a Customer Success Manager, so I have called their customer support. When you call their customer support you...
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Evan Mc Whirrter
Systems Administrator at a university
Great.
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Anonymous User
Information Security Manager at a non-tech company
Tech support is satisfactory.
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Anonymous User
Database Administrator
Among the best! Their support responds promptly. They fully resolve issues before closing tickets.
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Technical Support

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