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Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

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    Barracuda Load Balancer ADC

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is a Secure Application Delivery Controller that enables Application Availability, Acceleration and Control, while providing Application Security Capabilities.N/A

    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) is based on technology acquired with Incapsula and the former WebSphere WAF.N/A
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    Barracuda Load Balancer ADCImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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    Barracuda Load Balancer ADCImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda Load Balancer ADCImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Barracuda Load Balancer ADCImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Barracuda is an inexpensive solution for load balancing web traffic of all kinds and works as a reverse proxy if you need one. It is efficient and has been a very stable solution. If you need extremely granular configuration for your load balancing traffic, then you may need to go with one of the bigger brands. Barracuda will more than handle regular small and medium business use and do so at a greatly reduced price point.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    I recommend Imperva specially if you have a big environment with thousand of websites because of its ease to use and availability. Imperva delivers a reliable solution with great capability to contain cyber attacks and even fraud preventions in some cases. The only scenario it's less appropriate is if your focus is anti fraud instead of a solution to block cyber attacks.
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    Pros
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Excellent Load Balancing.
    • Flexible configuration - It's very simple to configure and powerful enough to handle many more websites than just our exchange site.
    • Continuously updated - Barracuda makes fairly frequent updates to address issues and improve features.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Block some dynamic attacks such as SQL injection.
    • Block unfriendly accesses based on geographic source.
    • Helps us implement SSL in cases where the original server can't (yet).
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    Cons
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Overall, there are no issues. It just runs.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Attack Correlation Validation - This specific policy produces a lot of false positives as well as the SQL injection policies. Of course it is difficult to tell what a legitimate query is on a public facing web app.
    • Profiling - I tend to spend more time than any other feature tuning the Web App Profiles. Plugins are used to help cope with this, but on extremely large web apps we are forced to turn off the profiling feature.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    It is a product we plan on continuing to use.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
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    Usability
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    It is fairly easy to learn after support helps you set it up and shows you how things work. Which they will do.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    It's easy and works great. The onboarding process, although easy, can sometimes take too long for SSL and domain validation, but its not a big deal.
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    Support Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    It did well for basic needs but would not deliver for all our services.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    We haven't needed support from Imperva since implementation. But during that time, their personnel were very quick to respond to questions. Since then, it's been largely doing its thing for us (which is exactly what we'd hoped).
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    Alternatives Considered
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    We also had looked at Kemp and F5. The Kemp and F5 had a lot of horsepower and advanced configuration and functionality. When we looked at our workload and how we were planning on using the load balancers, we really didn't need all those extra bells and whistles. Barracuda provided all the standard functionality we needed and were looking for and did so at a greatly reduced price point.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    I believe there's no comparison as Imperva is a much more reliable and powerfull WAF. AWS WAF lacks of several features Imperva have and is not that simple to configure neither have a clean web console. I consider Imperva WAF a whole superior level of cyber security solution and it's consider to be one of the leader in this segment.
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    Return on Investment
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • It has allowed us to maintain a very high level of uptime.
    • It has allowed us to perform server updates without the downtime of services.
    • It has provided a consistent user experience by properly balancing service loads across servers.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Meet compliance requirements - Check.
    • Better Insight into web application - Absolutely great, checks all the traffic against RFC standards and will alert on common development mistakes that duplicate application traffic or provide attack vectors for potential attackers.
    • Have had several issues blocking a customer without producing alerts, while it happened only one week out of 2 years of working with the devices, it did produce a lot of headaches.
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