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    Barracuda Web Application Firewall

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ABarracuda 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

    F5 BIG-IP

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 BIG-IP software from Seattle-based F5 Networks is a load balancing and application protection solution suite available on cloud or via virtual editions, on a subscription or perpetual licensing basis.N/A
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    Barracuda Web Application FirewallF5 BIG-IP
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    Barracuda Web Application FirewallF5 BIG-IP
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    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Barracuda Web Application FirewallF5 BIG-IP
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Chose Barracuda Web Application Firewall
    -The first choice for small companies should always be Barracuda Web Application Firewall due to budget alignment and same has been done here to avail more features rather than paying without verifying need of the features properly -There is no vendor in the market to provide …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda Web Application FirewallF5 BIG-IP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.2
    (265 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.0
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    Usability
    9.0
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    8.7
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    8.7
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    9.2
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    8.0
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    9.7
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    In-Person Training
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Barracuda Web Application FirewallF5 BIG-IP
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
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    F5
    LTM's scope of action goes beyond load balancing. Tools for control, governance, and application enhancement, as well as APIs like iRULE, are very important for day-to-day operations. Furthermore, the F5 BIG-IP WAF offers exceptional security. Advanced firewall and routing functionalities are helpful in more complex environments. O LTM possui um escopo de atuacao que vai alem do balanceamento. Ferramentas para controle, governanca e aprimoramento de aplicacoes e API como iRULE sao muito iportantes para o dia a dia a operacao. Alem disso o WAF do F5 BIG-IP tem uma qualidade de seguranca exceptional. As funcionalidades avancadas de firewall e roteamento ajudam em ambientes mais complexos. This review was originally written in Portuguese and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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    Pros
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Attack patterns are regularly updates through contents via Barracuda Web Application Firewall update servers
    • Bot Protection has a good line feature to verify between the genuine clients like browsers and bots
    • Dos Protection also good level of protection to mitigate Layer 7 attacks
    • Allow Deny Rules provides a lot of granular controls to allow and deny the traffic
    • URL profiles has a very granular control to mitigate false positives
    • Parameter profiles has a very granular control to mitigate false positives
    • Risk score feature for the clients to mitigate attacks is also very good feature
    • Client fingerprint module can be used against malicious user to enhance security
    • Separate XML and JSOn profile for all the URL profiles of the application is plus
    • API security is very much effective and shadow API can also be identified
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    F5
    • My company is kind of like it's a safe thing if you log in and you provide another second login to get the code to log in, confirm that it's a correct that you are logged into the account and it just provides more for the company
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    Cons
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • STM crashes sometimes happen due to unusual traffic pattern
    • Obfuscation on the client side user credentials which appears in the developer tools of browser
    • URL Profiles redundancy during the learning of traffic needs to be fixed
    • Dos Protection should be more granular like escalation period to throw JS challenge, Captcha and rate limit when escalation period hits until the WAF stops the attack
    • Client Fingerprinting should work as expected when verifying the clients as in rare some scenarios, it creates issues
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    F5
    • I think a couple of challenges. One, I mean the cost, it's not an inexpensive product, but I think it's probably parity with value, maybe a little on the pricey side of things.
    • As far as features and what we'd like to see more cloud native type experiences like where NGINX and F5 kind of come together, we're moving more of the cloud just like everybody else, and it's a little clunky right now.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    F5
    Stability of product and easy way to have account manager contact. F5 support team is also always available to help with major issues. Last year during the major OS upgrade F5 team and F5 leadership always shared clear information and F5 team was dedicated to help us to have it closed in record time
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    Usability
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    -User friendly interface for quick learning -Quick deployment for deploying applications -Easy to manage for naive -System components and upgradation of the WAF is very easy go with -Back restoration is very to make it up and ready anytime -Seperate JSON and XmL profiles for each URLs of the application is plus -Amazing and world class support engineer in comparison other vendors and always available to support -Quick resolution on bugs with their patch applying process
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    F5
    It is a good product to use but right now it is lacking the automation of certificates, management of iRules and automation of certain configuration. Also creating an APM policy from scratch with many APM agents take a long time due to slow load times of the GUI and the need to create everything from scratch every time. It's tough to reuse the configuration.
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    Support Rating
    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.
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    F5
    I've supported F5 for three different companies. Our F5 support has been very consistent, regardless who the customer is. F5 technicians are very experienced and provide good support, even when issues are more related to knowledge than they are with the ability of the product to do what you need it to do.
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    In-Person Training
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    F5
    Practical cases and hands on , many hours of training with tipical cases
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    Implementation Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    F5
    implementation is fine
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    Alternatives Considered
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    We have been using their Backup products especially Backup Appliances and legacy products like Intronis. We are also using their Cloud Backup Solutions for O365. This is the reason we opted for this product.
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    F5
    We are recently not evaluating, but we have started the deployment for WAF and we're using GTM, LTM, you name it. F5, we are using all of them.
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    Return on Investment
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Much better response times for remote transactions
    • 4 year refresh cycle included with active support contracts
    • More expensive than traditional firewalls (however its superior to those, not apples to apples)
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    F5
    • The F5 BIG-IP has improved all our load balancing needs, we have over 400 LTM VIPs in our environment this all use to be done with DNS round Robin configurations.
    • we have created unique APM solutions to support our external customer base
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