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Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs Kemp LoadMaster comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Web Application F...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (15th)
Kemp LoadMaster
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.5
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Barracuda Web Application Firewall and Kemp LoadMaster aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is designed for Web Application Firewall (WAF) and holds a mindshare of 2.0%, down 2.2% compared to last year.
Kemp LoadMaster, on the other hand, focuses on Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), holds 7.5% mindshare, up 7.6% since last year.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

Carlo Bertini - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides strong issue discovery capabilities; enhance the security parameters of web applications and suitable for medium to large enterprises
The Barracuda support depends. Sometimes, they solve the issue promptly, but normally, they are not so fast and are not entirely focused on the problem. For example, sometimes I write many requests on the tickets, asking for one, two, three, or four steps and asking for one to three resolutions. Often, they respond with only one or two. So, I need to push again and again. In other cases, I ask questions and get positive feedback immediately, depending on who the technician is. Barracuda has engineers in the USA, UK, and other countries, so it depends on the technician's location and expertise. So, I am not completely satisfied, but sometimes it is okay, and sometimes it is not okay. So, depending on the region and depending on the person who actually receives these tickets, the technical support could be more knowledgeable. So they may need some training or education for the entire staff to respond immediately without any delays. Often, it happens that they respond because they need to, not because they understand the technology I'm using. So they respond just because it's required by the service level agreement, which specifies a response time within four hours. But this is just a response, not a resolution of the case. Sometimes, the response is within the agreed time, but the solution takes much longer.
PeterForster - PeerSpot reviewer
A highly stable and scalable load-balancing software that offers great technical support
My company is really happy with Kemp LoadMaster as a product. My company is also happy with the support we receive from Kemp LoadMaster. I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reporting capabilities in relation to TCP packets. In general, the connections that are present in the system require improvement. Feature-wise, Kemp LoadMaster has everything that our company's customers require. Kemp LoadMaster also has features that have supported our company's past projects.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution ensures layer seven is secure from attacks."
"The stability of the solution is good. I don't think we've experienced bugs, crashes, or glitches."
"The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic content filtering."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to set up."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides optimized performance, a user-friendly environment, helpful dashboards, and is simple to use."
"Parameter Protection is a valuable feature."
"The security features, load balancing, built-in templates, and the easy to implement virtual IPs are great."
"We really like the performance of this solution."
"The pricing of the solution is valuable."
"From my personal experience, many firewalls provide Load Balancing functionalities, but Kemp Loadmaster has a lot of features and functionalities like what you can configure. So there are a lot of features but we use only five percent of it."
"Exchange load balancing and reverse proxy for Skype for Business are key features."
"The DNS Load Balancer makes it so that I don't have to worry about site failures."
"The old process of manually having to redirect Outlook Web Access traffic and Email traffic to a second server is a thing of the past."
"The user interface is very easy to work with."
 

Cons

"The policy updates could be improved."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"We've had some blocks of the application and some false positives."
"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."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"They should improve their features, so they easily compare to the competition."
"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."
"I would like to see an improved capacity to store logs so that they will be available for a longer time."
"I think there should be more visual instructions on how to configure advanced features."
"It would be much easier to have the management interface directly integrate with the Kemp Support library, allowing you to choose the desired template from the online catalog to then directly download to the LoadMaster."
"We have experienced at least one problem with stability, although it was fixed with an upgrade."
"In my opinion, the layer seven loads balancing that we're mainly using for web servers, doesn't seem to pick up when there are issues at the application level."
"They need to improve the UI environment. Currently, it's hard to navigate and use product."
"So far, the only hitch we have run into is that would have been nice to have an easier method to add allow/whitelist entries into the Access Control lists for virtual services."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."
"In the next release, Kemp should include the ability for LoadMaster to create different DNS record types."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of this solution is okay."
"For small companies, the price is very expensive because the WAF is an enterprise-level application, not intended for smaller businesses. In my opinion, the price is right for enterprise-level use."
"The product is inexpensive."
"While I would have to check on the price of the solution, I feel it to be okay and it matches the market price."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"In my opinion, the product is fairly priced."
"The pricing is less compared to other web applications."
"The product pricing was competitive for the value it offers regarding security features."
"Licensing is yearly and I am going to guess that it is CAN $2000.00."
"Setup is easy, the cost is affordable, and the licensing is quick and simple."
"The pricing is alright and we pay a monthly licensing fee"
"The price is lower than other options."
"KEMP gives away free trials for 30 days. This can be stretched if you want. During the test, you will have access to KEMP support.​"
"It has a very attractive ratio of price/performance."
"Currently, no cost is involved with a virtual load balancer. They have used open source. We did not pay for software. We paid for the expertise. We are only paying the consulting charges, which are very reasonable, that is, around a thousand dollars."
"Any decent product will cost money and if you want great support and a great product, then you will want to spend the money on it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Educational Organization
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
64%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
4%
Financial Services Firm
3%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Web Application Firewall?
It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment.
What is your primary use case for Barracuda Web Application Firewall?
I use the solution in my company to protect our website.
What do you like most about Kemp LoadMaster?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kemp LoadMaster?
LoadMaster is cheaper than some other solutions. It has a perpetual license, so it's a one-time cost.
What needs improvement with Kemp LoadMaster?
My company is really happy with Kemp LoadMaster as a product. My company is also happy with the support we receive from Kemp LoadMaster. I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reportin...
 

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Sample Customers

Oracle, CBS, Pioneer, Hyundai, Publix, Barnes Noble, Calzedonia, Nordstrom, Samsung, Nascar
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