We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"The integrated application protection provided by Alteon is very good. It really helps to avoid false positives in some cases. It provides important granularity to avoid a situation in which security or cybersecurity scenarios escape us."
"The product offers high availability."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."
"Technical support is lacking."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"Latencies are always a problem."
"It would be good if Cloudflare could have more servers for better traffic routing or an increase in the traffic routed. This is what I'd like to improve in Cloudflare."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"The user interface can be improved."
"The solution could be more robust."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 57 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, HAProxy and A10 Networks Thunder ADC.
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