We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall and NGINX Plus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The initial setup is easy."
"If an attack is coming continuously, you can ask the device to block it temporarily for two to three minutes. F5 has not provided us with an option to block certain IPs for some time. Barracuda can help you block someone if the source is from a different IP. You can apply the rule to the device and block it for whatsoever time you want. The solution will unblock the IP after the prescribed time as well."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"The volumetric DDoS defense is very good because I had a problem with a lot of volumetric DDoS attacks on my servers. After using Barracuda, those attacks have stopped and all the traffic is going smoothly to my servers and the system is working really well."
"Some of the most valuable features are the ease of deployment, the Barracuda support, the easy-to-use console, and the granularity of the reports."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"It significantly improved our overall web security posture, addressing intrusions and enhancing control over web URLs in our environment."
"It's very simple and predictable, because Barracuda provides a vision of the current state of your application. It gives you an understanding of what is happening on your site and any attempts against you at your source. This is the main value that Web Application Firewall provides our company. These aspects are also the main reason for this documentation process."
"When you use NGINX, you have more options and power."
"Application Gateway with application-level firewall tool and load distributor and balancer (also serves for A/B testing)."
"NGINX Plus also has NGINX App Protect. It's a separate module, which is inspired by the F5 apps."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"The flexibility of its modules allow it to be scalable."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"The web proxy and the database proxy are excellent."
"There are some vulnerabilities that are reported across the tools offered by Barracuda for some devices, which need to be taken care of from an improvement perspective."
"An area for improvement in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is attack identification. Other banks identified attacks and tracked logs that the solution wasn't able to identify because of its ready-made rules pre-deployed by the vendor. My organization raised this issue with the technical support team. Another area to improve in Barracuda Web Application Firewall is its service desk. The team resorted to stonewalling because they couldn't accept that a feature was missing in the solution, and it was only after a lot of drilling down that the service desk team accepted that, and would be adding that feature in the future. My organization had to submit a report to the Reserve Bank of India with information on the logs identified and the attacks that happened, and that there was a failure on the part of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall. The Reserve Bank of India conducts a tri-monthly cyber risk audit in all Indian banks. Even smaller banks identified and caught attacks that my organization wasn't able to do, so I was looking into other solutions that competitor banks could be using because Barracuda Web Application Firewall failed to identify some of the attacks."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall's load balancing feature could be improved."
"The GUI needs to be improved because it sometimes hangs and needs to be restarted."
"We get false positives about phishing emails."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"The usability of the interface could be improved."
"Sometimes when we put it in action, we have some blogs that appear as false positives. I think that it's improving. Barracuda should minimize false positives."
"NGINX Plus is moderately priced, but it could give better value for money."
"Improvement needed in NGINX Plus could focus on optimizing memory usage for users."
"The center management system could be improved."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"Make modules easier to enable or disable. The beauty and ugly side of the NGINX modules is you have to know how to compile the module. For beginners or non-very technical aspirant(s) going for NGINX, they have to learn how to compile the modules."
"I would like to see the Grafana integration in NGINX which is already present in HAProxy. Grafana integration will help the solution visualize all the data analytics on the dashboard which is currently not present."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
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Barracuda Web Application Firewall is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 38 reviews while NGINX Plus is ranked 5th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 28 reviews. Barracuda Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while NGINX Plus is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Web Application Firewall writes "Provides strong issue discovery capabilities; enhance the security parameters of web applications and suitable for medium to large enterprises". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX Plus writes "Quick installation and very easy to manage while doing orchestration or automation". Barracuda Web Application Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and HAProxy, whereas NGINX Plus is most compared with IIS, HAProxy, Kemp LoadMaster, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Apache Web Server.
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