We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard WAF and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable feature we have found in Check Point CloudGuard WAF is its rich logging capabilities."
"Its ability to adapt to our applications and ensure our security policies are followed is a big plus."
"It is a very scalable and stable solution."
"By using a cloud application security solution, our company can save costs by reducing the need for additional security hardware and software and improving operational efficiency."
"It provides advanced analytics that gives each team time to prepare for any threat that might occur in the future."
"I find the configuration and real-time monitoring features valuable."
"After integrating AppSec with other applications, team members can easily work without fear of confidential information exposure."
"The app control is very sensitive, and the threat detection and prevention is better than other Check Point solutions. There is a centralized management console for threat protection and self-inspection."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Check Point CloudGuard Application Security needs to improve updates on integrations. It also needs to incorporate real-time monitoring features."
"They should improve in the delivery of more detailed reports with more information."
"One of the big problems we found in Check Point, in general, is the support."
"I advise proactive threat detection intelligence offline, which can also help monitor and ensure system checks and compliances are in place."
"Deeper and more transparent integration between Cloud Application Security and analysis monitoring tools could be very valuable - although the solution currently offers integrations with third-party security tools."
"You need to know exactly the system. You cannot have someone running the system if they don't have the knowledge to do so."
"Improving the process for handling licensing renewals would be a welcome enhancement."
"For the next release, I would suggest considering features like enhanced threat intelligence integration."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
"Support is not that great."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
Check Point CloudGuard WAF is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 29 reviews while Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard WAF is rated 9.0, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard WAF writes "Automation capabilities also help streamline security processes and smooths down API integration processes and detects API availability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". Check Point CloudGuard WAF is most compared with SonarQube and Checkmarx One, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and F5 Advanced WAF.
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