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Imperva DDoS Protection vs. Barracuda Web Application Firewall

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricImperva DDoS Protection

by Thales Group

Barracuda Web Application Firewall

by Barracuda

Overall rating4.44.3
Review count1214
Ease of use9.08.8
Ease of setup9.48.6
Quality of support9.08.6
Meets requirements9.29.0
NPS5046.153846
Small Business8.3%14.3%
Mid-Market66.7%64.3%
Enterprise25.0%21.4%
Total page views173170
Total LLM citations745605

Imperva DDoS Protection

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose a significant threat to businesses, causing downtime, disrupting services, and damaging reputation. Imperva DDoS Protection provides a robust, cloud-based solution to safeguard your websites, networks, and applications from these malicious attacks, ensuring business continuity even in the face of large-scale, complex threats. Imperva DDoS Protection offers always-on defense, capable of mitigating attacks within three seconds of detection.

Pros

    Barracuda Web Application Firewall

    Barracuda Web Application Firewall (WAF) is purpose-built to protect your web, mobile, and API applications from today’s most advanced threats. It helps prevent data breaches and ensures business continuity by blocking OWASP Top 10 attacks, L4–L7 DDoS, zero-day exploits, and more. With Advanced Bot Protection powered by cloud-based machine learning, Barracuda WAF detects and stops malicious bots responsible for web scraping, credential stuffing, and account takeover attempts—before they can do damage.

    Pros

    • Cybersecurity
    • SSL Encryption
    • Management Efficiency
    • Configuration Ease
    • Setup Ease
    • Features