# Barracuda Application Protection Reviews **Vendor:** Barracuda **Category:** [Web Application Firewalls (WAF)](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-application-firewall-waf) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About Barracuda Application Protection Barracuda Application Protection is an integrated platform that brings a comprehensive set of interoperable capabilities together to ensure complete application security. It offers security against multiple web and API attack vectors, including unlimited full-spectrum DDoS Protection, Advanced Bot Protection, Client-Side Protection, an additional containerized deployment model and built-in Zero Trust access for additional security ## Barracuda Application Protection Reviews ### 1. Best Web application firewall service from Barracuda **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam M. | IT Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** Easy integration and deployment, Able to work well as a layer 7 network protection device, Custom filtering rules are supported which brings WAf to advance level. **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** Doesn't support SSL offloading, Reporting and dashboard can be improved further, Support services SLA should be improved. Device capabilities can be improved further. **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us in protecting our web application with OWASP top 3.2 top rules, we able to detect and prevent most of external attack using Barracuda WAF. This improved our business application performance as well as revenue. ### 2. Great way to protect web applications via an as-a-service platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offers a complete package as you would expect from a WAF, but everything is SaaS-based. The WAF-as-a-Service offers very detailed configuration possibilities. **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** Sometimes it is difficult to configure the WAF to be fully proof. It takes some time before all the false positives are gone. But this is the case with every WAF. **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the WAF-as-a-Service to protect all our public facing web applications. In the past we had to install a WAF on premise but now everything is updated and maintained in the cloud ### 3. It good but there are better options available **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitin P. | Senior Specialist - Analytics & Automation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** It's ML algo is really great it's able to detect existing bugs in the bot...it's just like a human debugging the code...upside is the package that they offer irresistible... **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** Thhe updates which the barracuda people provide are really slow...they do not release updates that frequently....bots in today's time are evolving fast so should the bot error detection tools **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped me get over the mundane task of debugging....i didn't had to allocate my resource to just debug the basic code as well...company is benefitted from this... ### 4. Best Web application firewall **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** Easily scalable, Good performance , Best in class WAF **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** Little complex to configure, Need the expertise to manage it. **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us to protect our web application through various applications attacks. ### 5. Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak S. | Senior Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** Configuring traditional web application firewalls can take days of effort. But Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service—a full-featured, cloud-delivered application security service—breaks the mold **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** It gives you a lot of time to relax as the deployment is completed well before your deadline :) **Recommendations to others considering Barracuda Application Protection:** Go-for-it. It leverages Azure’s extensive global presence and resource flexibility to meet data residency and availability needs at all times **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offerred us Advanced Bot Protection that uses machine learning to continually improve its ability to spot and block bad bots and human-mimicking bots — while allowing legitimate human and bot traffic to proceed with minimal impact. ### 6. Amazing experience , controlling Owasp top 10 , barracuda waf is awesome product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jitendra M. | Network Security Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** Best in service, not so much bug reported , zero day attack,best to handle vulnerability, easily manageable, best custome support **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** Nothing to say so much , always have nice experience **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** All feature in one place so this is the most amazing experience , ### 7. great features it provides as compared to other vendors. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanat T. | Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** DDoS rule customization is the best where we have good amount of flexibility. **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** UI seems to be little off touch so a couple of improvements need to be made. **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have found the rule to be customized as very flexible. ### 8. Well, Barracuda is having excellent service and stack in WAF environment. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jatin P. | Senior Solution Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** The function of the product and managing it. **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** As of now, nothing is revealing let's see in the upcoming days. **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Like, We are protecting multiple web servers from DDoS attacks. ### 9. Good Web Application firewalls to restrict most of Injection kind of attacks (Eg: XSS ,SQLI) **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** Most of the bypassing techniques as well our customized payload is perfecting intercepting form WAF side , it's very good to see **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** Nothing i feel dislike in the web application firewall as a Service **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most of the time Injection attacks , RateLimiting etc ### 10. Great WAF tool for Applications Protection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** It's give you advance protection in term of Application Security which will include OWASP, Bot and Malware protection **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** Nothing as such found it in term of WAF as Service **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application Security WAF used as web Gateway Complete DDOS protection ### 11. Baracuda WAF **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Barracuda Application Protection?** We use Baracuda WAF in the office constantly and love the security and peace of mind that it provides. **What do you dislike about Barracuda Application Protection?** Sometimes we experience difficulty running this program with other firewall programs to prevent data loss. **What problems is Barracuda Application Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are allowing sensitive information to be more readily available to our team members without worrying about breaches in security. ## Barracuda Application Protection Discussions - [What are the functions provided by WAF?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-functions-provided-by-waf) - [What are the features of WAF?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/barracuda-waf-as-a-service-what-are-the-features-of-waf) - [What is Barracuda WAF as-a-Service?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-barracuda-waf-as-a-service) - [What is Barracuda WAF as-a-Service main advantage to customers?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-barracuda-waf-as-a-service-main-advantage-to-customers) - [View Barracuda Application Protection pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/barracuda-application-protection/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+05%3A53%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fbfb82d2-159a-4819-a13f-7a8d58b4f83e&secure%5Btoken%5D=dbe87b5e246115566271328da2799da9078b2dd96baf0edc59ece1db2cb47f86&format=llm_user) ## Barracuda Application Protection Features **Analysis** - Logging and Reporting - Issue Tracking - Security Monitoring **Controls** - Application-Layer Controls - Traffic Controls - Network Controls **Functionality** - API / Integrations - Extensibility - Bot Traffic ## Top Barracuda Application Protection Alternatives - [FortiAppSec Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/fortiappsec-cloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (29 reviews) - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (578 reviews) - [HAProxy](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (883 reviews)