Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs Imperva CDN

Likelihood to Recommend

It could really help a smaller business keep users off websites you don't want them on.

Database Administrator

Northside ISDEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

Incapsula really exceeds if you have a very large amount of traffic, it is a truly durable and resilient WAF. Global load balancing, increased security, added caching, smaller number of sites (but very important)? Then I would recommend Incapsula. Incapsula is always additive to features your infrastructure has and it does those well, so I would always advise using it if your site has high traffic, is business critical, or accesses sensitive information through a SQL backend.

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Josh Dix

Systems Administrator

Provident Funding Associates L.P.Financial Services, 501-1000 employees

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Pros

SD-WAN
Traffic conditioning
Reasonable cost

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Director in Information Technology

Legal Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Reliability / Uptime
Security

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Josh Dix

Systems Administrator

Provident Funding Associates L.P.Financial Services, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Reports could be somewhat confusing.
The initial setup was a little difficult for our Security Admin team.

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Tony Ortiz

Database Administrator

Northside ISDEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Web Interface could be better, no overall site details/performance views.
API is limited if you do not have a reseller account unnecessarily.
Alerting / Reports / Bot

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Josh Dix

Systems Administrator

Provident Funding Associates L.P.Financial Services, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

Barracuda Web Application Firewall 8.0

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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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Tony Ortiz

Database Administrator

Northside ISDEducation Management, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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).

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Return on Investment

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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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Barracuda Web Application Firewall Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Imperva CDN Editions & Modules

Edition

Free	$0
Pro	$59²
Business	$299²
Enterprise	Call For Quote

per month

Additional Pricing Details

Free Plan: Bot mitigation, content delivery network and two-factor authentication. Pro Plan: Includes Free Plan Features plus web application firewall, advanced performance, PCI compliance report, backdoor protection and SSL support. Business Plan: Includes Pro features plus blocks network layer DDoS attacks, blocks application layer DDoS attacks, auto-detection & triggering and supports custom SSL certificates. Enterprise Plan: Includes Business Features plus 24/7 support and uptime SLA, custom security rules, real-time event monitoring, load balancing and failover, infrastructure DDoS protection (BGP), manager service option and API access and custom brandings.

Barracuda Web Application Firewall vs Imperva CDN