Akamai App & API Protector vs. Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Akamai App & API Protector

Akamai App & API Protector

14 Reviews and Ratings

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

19 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai App & API Protector	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.	N/A
Barracuda Web Application Firewall	Score 6.5 out of 10	N/A	Barracuda Web Application Firewall, from Barracuda Networks in Campbell, California, protects web applications from bots, DDoS attacks, and other advanced threats to enterprise apps.	N/A

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Akamai App & API Protector

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

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Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API Protector	Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Akamai App & API Protector	Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Top Pros	Pro Web security	Pro Response time Pro Email filtering Pro Web based
Top Cons	Minus Custom rules Minus Hard to configure	Minus Little difficult Minus Tech support Minus Cannot handle

Best Alternatives
	Akamai App & API Protector	Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Small Businesses	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10	Cloudflare Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises	F5 Advanced WAF Score 9.3 out of 10	F5 Advanced WAF Score 9.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Akamai App & API Protector	Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	7.3 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai Akamai Kona Site Defender KSD, works fine for any website or mobile application (Native/JDK), it can be used as a WAF, a rate limiting tool, or a bot management tool all in one, plus you will get all the benefits of the Akamai CDN (Content distribution network) as well Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Easy to use and reliable, with very little maintenance required and zero downtime to date. For the education sector, ease of use is hugely important as IT Managers/Technicians are often "Jack of all trades" with a good, broad general knowledge but perhaps lacking specific expertise in certain aspects. Being provided with easy-to-follow tutorials and instructions has been very useful in setting up and configuring the firewall, especially as my background is more in desktop support. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Email Filtering and Inspection Web-based intrusions and attacks Traffic Patterns Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Akamai Custom rules might be hard to configure For some cases you will need to contact the Akamai team to adjust the backend Interface might feel laggy if used in a non-powerful PC Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Reports could be somewhat confusing. The initial setup was a little difficult for our Security Admin team. Incentivized TO Tony Ortiz Database Administrator Read full review
Support Rating	Akamai No answers on this topic	Barracuda Networks, Inc. The Barracuda Web Application Firewall is easy to use. Support from Barracuda is great also. Load Balancing of the Web Application Firewall is also nice. This allows you to do maintenance or have large loads for the end-user. Threat monitoring of our network and traffic coming into our services within our cloud solution. Incentivized TO Tony Ortiz Database Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Akamai No answers on this topic	Barracuda Networks, Inc. We have used SonicWalls and WatchGuard firewall appliances neither are even remotely close to the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. In addition, Barracuda support is fantastic. Throw in the 4 year (free) refresh cycle and there is no reason we would even consider the other two again (at least for the foreseeable future). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Akamai Fair Security investment An attack impact would be higher Support contract is not cheap Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Negative impact: a default port was open and missed by one of our techs. Positive impact: it protects us everyday now that we have it locked down. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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