We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"I like Cloudflare's application gateway and DDoS protection."
"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."
"Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"The web application firewall brought us good security and a view of the accesses/blocks of the entire domain and subdomain that were accessed both by region (country) and IPs."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The setup was straightforward."
"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."
"The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage."
"The pricing could be improved."
"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."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"DNS Management."
"Technical support is lacking."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
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Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 56 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 37th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Symantec Web Application Firewall 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and AWS Shield, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WAPPLES. See our Cloudflare vs. Symantec Web Application Firewall report.
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