We performed a comparison between Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a SaaS solution unlike much of the competition."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."
"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."
"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."
"It is configurable via API."
"We extensively use the solution every day. The solution is very stable; we haven’t seen any glitches."
"The product has improved our security posture by blocking bad actors."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"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."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."
"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."
"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."
"The accuracy of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall could be improved by reducing the number of false-negative alerts."
"I have experienced some difficulties with Cloudflare's support as a customer based in India."
"A key challenge arises when dealing with numerous integrations with HVAC systems. Depending on the specifics, there might be some configuration mismatches, which necessitate specific support."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"Performance could be improved."
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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". 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 Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Fastly, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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