Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Defend applications and APIs against cyber threats with intelligent attack detection and prevention
- Also known as
- barracuda-web-application-firewall
Available worldwide
What is Barracuda Web Application Firewall?
A web application firewall available as both cloud service and on-premises deployment that protects applications, APIs, and mobile backends from attacks including zero-day exploits, DDoS, and malicious bots. Features machine learning-based threat intelligence, automated API discovery, and granular access controls.
Barracuda Web Application Firewall pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Premium
Contact salesMachine learning capabilities, automated API discovery, advanced bot protection, client-side protection, containerized deployment, and zero trust security
- Machine learning threat detection
- Automated API discovery
- Bot threat mitigation
- Client-side protection
- Containerized deployment
- Zero trust security
- DDoS protection
- Rate limiting
- GeoIP access controls
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (33)
Independently observed- Active Directory
- LDAP
- RADIUS
- ADFS
- SAML
- OpenID Connect
- IBM AppScan
- Rapid7
- Immuniweb
- HPE Security WebInspect
- Azure Sentinel
- Loggly
- Splunk
- Sumologic
- IBM QRadar
- HPE ARCsight
- AWS
- Azure
- CloudFormation
- Microsoft 365
- Cisco Meraki
- Fortinet FortiGate
- SonicWALL
- Palo Alto Networks
- Sophos XGS
- Microsoft Defender
- SentinelOne
- Kaseya Autotask
- Avast AntiVirus
- GitHub
- Barracuda CloudGen Access
- Barracuda Backup
- Barracuda SecureEdge Manager
Barracuda Web Application Firewall alternatives
Other waf we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Fastly Next-Gen WAFDistributed web application and API security platform deployable anywhere your infrastructure liveslow · 26%
- AWS WAFA cloud-native web application firewall that protects web applications and APIs from web-based attacksmedium · 61%
- Cloudflare WAFAn edge-deployed security layer that inspects incoming web traffic and prevents attacks before they reach your applicationsmedium · 53%
- Corazalow · 32%
- ModSecuritylow · 20%
- Imperva WAFlow · 3%
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Compare Barracuda Web Application Firewall
Side by side against other waf, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
- Barracuda Web Application FirewallvsFastly Next-Gen WAF15/67
- AWS WAFvsBarracuda Web Application Firewall61/15
- Barracuda Web Application FirewallvsCloudflare WAF15/57
- Barracuda Web Application FirewallvsCoraza15/46
- Barracuda Web Application FirewallvsModSecurity15/32
- Barracuda Web Application FirewallvsImperva WAF15/22
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Barracuda Web Application Firewall, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations | 44 | 0.04 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 15 | 0.07 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing transparency | 0 | 0.08 | 0.0 | ✓ |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 33 | mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-19 · 75% |