Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service vs. F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall

Simple Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service were out of the box standard policies can be applied. this Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is perfect for a basic environment and protection in particular if you have already other barracuda Infrastruture elements in your network. Easy to deploy configure and get it running with in a few hours. Definitely not the type of WAF for a complex web application.

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Advanced WAF is well suited for protection against account enumeration attacks, protection against known and new increasing attack vectors through out of the box attack signatures and threat campaigns. Also, up to date and accurate IP intelligence database to block based on known IP reputation.

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• Provides full-spectrum security DOD-level protection; which is a big help for us for security of our data.
• Ease of setup on her firewall for security for VPN users.
• Configuration is easy to do and use for our security team with its features and pictures of instruction.

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• So the product definitely is helping us for sudden attacks through DDOS, some injection ingestion into UI URLs, and definitely it's capturing those and I definitely see that as an advantage for us. They can stop the hackers from using our endpoints.

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• User interface
• Slow response

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• We would like to see more use of this product in such a way that we can insert JavaScript so that we can understand the bot detection very well. I understand that it does bot detection, with some constraints, but we have to expand that bot detection very well to do fraud detection much better just like Google Recapture.
• Second is the WAF product. Sometimes we are getting false positives just because in the scope of the applications we had to stop certain headers, HTP headers, and we would like to see if there is some kind of a way to enhance the product to use machine learning to do this automatically or suggest to do it automatically in the future.

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Using the phishing and impersonation tool to rule out and capture phishing emails is good one we are using.

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F5 WAF provides much more control and has a lot of features that can be used to protect your applications. You can have granular configuration settings per application and disable attack signatures on very specific scenarios whenever is needed. Also, the logs are very detailed and helpful to analyze the requests.

• Positive - quick deployment
• Positive - scalable for simple environments
• Negative - difficult to support complex web app environments

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• This has been good overall. It has a positive impact on the security of our applications. I don't have necessarily a measurement on ROI, but it definitely definitely added to the security of our products.

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