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Barracuda Application Protection vs. Barracuda Web Application Firewall

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Barracuda Application Protection

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ABarracuda Application Protection is a cloud-delivered application security service that includes full-spectrum L3-L7 DDoS protection (volumetric and application) to protect applications from disruptions and ensure nonstop availability.N/A

    Barracuda Web Application Firewall

    Score5.2 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
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    Barracuda Application ProtectionBarracuda Web Application Firewall
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    Barracuda Application ProtectionBarracuda Web Application Firewall
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    Barracuda Application ProtectionBarracuda Web Application Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    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 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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    Pros
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • 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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    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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    Cons
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • More bot categories should be integrated
    • URLs profiles should be user friendly the one feature which is bit complicated
    • client side integrity should include more mitigation techniques
    • there should a feature where you can achieve out of the box requirements means the feature which is not available can be included by writing a code
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    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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    Usability
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    -Easy to deploy -Easy to manage application -Scalability is good -Security Features contains a lot of granularities especially URL profiles protection and Json security
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    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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    Support Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Price for the over all functionalities offered. Simplicity to configure and deploy in our current environment. Automated standard policies. easy to maintain.
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    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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    Return on Investment
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Has been good in lessening threats from the outside.
    • Ease of use for our security team to be able to use templates and configure to our specs.
    • Being able to set as many rules as you like is a big plus.
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    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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