Item: Barracuda Application Protection
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Security protection to several web applications hosted in AWS.
We were looking to deploy a WAF out of the box with not to much maintenance and that will work out if the box.
One of the key Elements also was the WAF support for load balancing as we were looking to distribute the load of the web applications.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Automated policies
Easy to use
Identification of known attacks
Straight forward configuration

Cons

User interface
Slow response

Most Important Features

Easy to deploy
Standard policies
Easy to create rules

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

AWS WAF, Sucuri and Cloudflare

Price for the over all functionalities offered.
Simplicity to configure and deploy in our current environment.
Automated standard policies.
easy to maintain.

Key Insights

Do you think Barracuda Application Protection delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Barracuda Application Protection's feature set?

Yes

Did Barracuda Application Protection live up to sales and marketing promises?

Did implementation of Barracuda Application Protection go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Barracuda Application Protection again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

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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Barracuda WAF as a service perfect for a basic environment