Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs. FortiWeb

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

19 Reviews and Ratings

FortiWeb

5 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
FortiWeb	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	FortiWeb is Fortinet's web application security system (or web application firewall, WAF) featuring advanced vulnerability management and threat detection and prevention, available in deployment as an appliance or virtual appliance, also as a hosted or a cloud-based virtual solution.	N/A

Pricing

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

FortiWeb

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Barracuda Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Barracuda Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
Considered Both Products	Barracuda Web Application Firewall No answer on this topic	FortiWeb Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Chose FortiWeb Most of them have the same features but not for FREE. The second point was the total cost of ownership for 3 and 5 years. Fortinet supported us with the best prices for 3 years and 5 years as well with advanced hardware replacement against the others. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Response time Pro Email filtering Pro Web based	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Little difficult Minus Tech support Minus Cannot handle	No answers on this topic

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	Barracuda Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
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User Ratings
	Barracuda Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
Likelihood to Recommend	7.3 (5 ratings)	8.2 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Barracuda Web Application Firewall	FortiWeb
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Fortinet Regarding my experience, I prefer to deploy FortiWeb in a reverse proxy to have the full features and protection. The other mode will be useful for special cases as will it will not have the full range of features and protection. Like offline Sniffing, it will be used in special cases. Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
Pros	Barracuda Networks, Inc. Email Filtering and Inspection Web-based intrusions and attacks Traffic Patterns Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Fortinet API protection Bot mitigation Web application protection Application delivery Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
Cons	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	Fortinet Built-in vulnerability scanner should be better in next release Predefined security policies for other web application not listed Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
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. Incentivized TO Tony Ortiz Database Administrator Read full review	Fortinet No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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	Fortinet Most of them have the same features but not for FREE. The second point was the total cost of ownership for 3 and 5 years. Fortinet supported us with the best prices for 3 years and 5 years as well with advanced hardware replacement against the others. Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	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	Fortinet ROI for last three years was 60% Incentivized Mohamed Taha Cyber Security Division Manager Read full review
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