Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offers purpose-built, comprehensive protection for web apps and APIs with multi-cloud protection and simple licensing.
Complete protection for web and API applications
Stop advanced bots dead in their track
Deploy quickly and easily in 5 steps
Protect any application environment
Gain ease of use and streamline management
Take advantage of simple, deterministic licensing
The Barracuda Advantage
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Web application security
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[Limited]
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OWASP Top 10 web app risk protection
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[Limited]
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Smart signatures
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Granular policy enforcement
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Customizable rulesets
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Zero-day attack protection
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[Limited]
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API protection
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OWASP Top 10 API risk protection
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JSON security
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XML security
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API discovery
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Bot protection
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[Limited]
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Web scraping protection
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Advanced Bot Protection with machine learning
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Credential stuffing and spraying protection
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CAPTCHA support
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Client-side protection
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Virtual patching
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File upload protection
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[Requires other Azure services]
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Auto-configuration engine
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Protect applications across multi-cloud environments
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[Limited]
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Ensure protection from attacks of web apps and APIs.
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service protects applications, APIs, and mobile app backends against a variety of attacks, including the OWASP Top 10, zero-day threats, and application-layers denial of service attacks. By combining signature-based policies, positive security, and robust anomaly-detection capabilities, Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service defeats today’s most sophisticated attacks targeting your web applications. With API discovery, IP Reputation feeds, and smart signatures, Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service ensures protection for web apps and APIs.
Azure WAF’s use of open-source rulesets and lack of API security may leave your applications insufficiently protected.
Stop bad bots.
Sophisticated malicious bots mimic human users to evade standard bot detection. However, blocking legitimate bots can harm your business. Modern bot defense must distinguish between legitimate and malicious bots, as well as human users and advanced bots. Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offers Advanced Bot Protection that uses machine learning to continually improve the ability to spot and block bad bots and human-mimicking bots, while allowing legitimate human and bot traffic to proceed with minimal impact.
Azure WAF offers a single bot protection profile without any configurability or machine learning and does not have the ability to block advanced bots.
Protect every application environment.
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offers two deployment modes: SaaS and containerized deployments. Whatever your application environment, whether it is built as a traditional-tiered application, with containers, or serverless, it can be protected by Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service. When deploying containerized appliances, you can choose to deploy Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service containers to protect East-West and North-South traffic at no additional cost.
The Azure WAF is available only as a module on the load balancer and does not offer close-in protection for deployments like containers.
Manage with ease.
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service leverages Barracuda Vulnerability Remediation Service, an advanced vulnerability scanner to constantly monitor your deployment for vulnerabilities. Any identified vulnerabilities can be easily remediated automatically or with a single click. Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service provides complete customizability for rules and signatures; you can modify, enable, or disable for any part of the application as you needed. In addition, there are ease-of-use features built-in, like the machine-learning based Auto-Configuration Engine and one-click fix for false positive from logs, to make administration easier.
The Azure WAF does not have any virtual patching capabilities. Rules cannot be enabled or disabled for a single URL; you must turn them on or off for the entire application, significantly hampering your security.
Take advantage of simple, deterministic licensing.
Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service uses simple, all-inclusive licensing. You can purchase through the Azure Marketplace and Pay-As-You-Go, or purchase term licenses (BYOL), depending on your preference. Either way, pricing is simple and deterministic. Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service offers better value at a lower cost.
The Azure WAF has both fixed and variable costs that make determining the final pricing difficult.
