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Barracuda Web Application Firewall pros and cons

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Barracuda Web Application Firewall Pros review quotes

IB
Sep 19, 2019
It's very simple and predictable, because Barracuda provides a vision of the current state of your application. It gives you an understanding of what is happening on your site and any attempts against you at your source. This is the main value that Web Application Firewall provides our company. These aspects are also the main reason for this documentation process.
Carlo Bertini - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 8, 2023
One of the strongest points is its robust issue discovery capabilities. Barracuda invests significant efforts in identifying and resolving issues. They have multiple products that work in tandem to perform these checks, which is beneficial because it automates security updates. This is the primary reason I recommend it to my customers.
KA
Jul 20, 2023
We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks.
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reviewer1355274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 11, 2021
The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable.
PS
Aug 9, 2022
What I like most about Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its availability. I also like that it's an easy-to-use solution.
Sami Esber - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 17, 2022
Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support.
reviewer2391792 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 21, 2024
The solution's most valuable feature is that it actually protects our website, and it provides all the required security functions.
Rimon Morcos - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 10, 2022
The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks.
reviewer1381656 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 24, 2020
The initial setup is pretty straightforward, especially if you enlist assistance.
Anuraj Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 1, 2024
The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
 

Barracuda Web Application Firewall Cons review quotes

IB
Sep 19, 2019
I think the main area for improvement in this product is learning it, as can be seen when comparing it to the F5 web application firewall. F5 has a very powerful learning phase when you start using your web application firewall against your site. Barracuda has something like this, but not with the same functionality from my point of view.
Carlo Bertini - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 8, 2023
One of Barracuda's limitations is its user interface. The GUI for configuration is not intuitive and has remained largely unchanged for the past 10 to 12 years.
KA
Jul 20, 2023
In the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, there should be more affordable options for WAF as a service.
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reviewer1355274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 11, 2021
The solution needs to leverage some additional features to a broader scale of software-defined networks.
PS
Aug 9, 2022
An area for improvement in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is attack identification. Other banks identified attacks and tracked logs that the solution wasn't able to identify because of its ready-made rules pre-deployed by the vendor. My organization raised this issue with the technical support team. Another area to improve in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its service desk. The team resorted to stonewalling because they couldn't accept that a feature was missing in the solution, and it was only after a lot of drilling down that the service desk team accepted that, and would be adding that feature in the future. My organization had to submit a report to the Reserve Bank of India with information on the logs identified and the attacks that happened, and that there was a failure on the part of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. The Reserve Bank of India conducts a tri-monthly cyber risk audit in all Indian banks. Even smaller banks identified and caught attacks that my organization wasn't able to do, so I was looking into other solutions that competitor banks could be using because Barracuda Web Application Firewall failed to identify some of the attacks.
Sami Esber - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 17, 2022
The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted.
reviewer2391792 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 21, 2024
I have to go to an individual obligation, make changes, and come out, and go to the next obligation and make the same changes. There is no grouping option.
Rimon Morcos - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 10, 2022
There are issues when upgrading firewalls and we experience different issues across customers.
reviewer1381656 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 24, 2020
We've had some blocks of the application and some false positives.
Anuraj Nair - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 1, 2024
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.