Comodo cWatch vs F5 Silverline Managed Services comparison

Xcitium and F5 are both solutions in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category. Xcitium is ranked #26 with an average rating of 9.0, while F5 is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.7. Xcitium holds a 1.1% mindshare in WAF, compared to F5’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Xcitium users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of F5 users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Comodo cWatch and F5 Silverline Managed Services compete in the cybersecurity market. F5 Silverline Managed Services appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced features, making it suitable for complex security challenges.

Features: Comodo cWatch offers continuous monitoring, website application firewall, and malware removal, providing a holistic defense. F5 Silverline Managed Services provides sophisticated DDoS protection, comprehensive threat intelligence, and advanced WAF capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Comodo cWatch could enhance its range of advanced threat detection capabilities and improve integration with third-party tools. It may also expand its reporting features for more detailed insights. F5 Silverline Managed Services could simplify its deployment process, increase flexibility in policy management, and streamline its interface for easier navigation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Comodo cWatch is known for a straightforward deployment process and responsive customer support. F5 Silverline Managed Services requires more effort in deployment due to its complexity but is compensated by high-quality customer service after configuration.

Pricing and ROI: Comodo cWatch provides lower setup costs, making it attractive for businesses on a budget. It delivers considerable ROI for cost-effective solutions. F5 Silverline Managed Services entails a higher initial investment but justifies its premium pricing with long-term security advantages.

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is 5.4%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Comodo cWatch is 1.1%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 Silverline Managed Services is 1.4%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall	5.4%
F5 Silverline Managed Services	1.4%
Comodo cWatch	1.1%
Other	92.1%

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Featured Reviews

Dean Barisic

CTO at PlayNirvana

Advanced security reporting has protected high-traffic betting platforms from constant attacks

I don't see room for improvement to Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. One thing I don't know much about because we have a dedicated IT team for that, and I'm not involved with Cloudflare much anymore. But if I were to compare them to F5, I would like to see more features that F5 offers. F5 has an option to bring the whole infrastructure, the whole WAF and all their packages, Bot Management, and everything else on your infrastructure. You need to install certain services from their side, and then you can choose if you would like requests to hit your servers immediately or if requests need to be proxied through F5 backbone. That would be a nice addition because we have 90% of the traffic as legit traffic coming from whitelisted servers. If it comes from whitelisted servers, I don't need to go every request through the backbone; I could easily just IP whitelist everything. Then I could maybe have Bot Management on my infrastructure that drastically reduces the price of Cloudflare. I would like to see Push CDN more improved in the next release of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. And maybe something similar to Pushpin that Fastly has, which is an option where you can push messages that then can be scaled globally over the network. From our perspective, if we have a listener that listens for stock updates, I would just need to have one processor that pushes those updates to the Cloudflare API, and then Cloudflare would broadcast that message to all listeners. Cloudflare will check the order of the message, and if you, as a customer, are not connected or have some kind of network issue, when you reconnect, you will receive the latest state and missing updates.

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Bernardo Murillo

Director De Netquatro at Netquatro

Alerts organizations if any malware is detected and removes it quickly

The solution allows me to change my logo. It gives me a white-label portal because I am a partner. OWASP has been the most effective in malware prevention. It can detect if the headers are okay and do FTP scans. We get alerts if we have some malware. It is removed very quickly.

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Mohan Janarthanan

Associate Vice President at Novac Technology Solutions

Cloud applications have gained stronger protection and real-time defense against web attacks

What really stands out for me in terms of advantages of F5 Silverline Managed Services is that in a single cloud platform, I can protect my web applications against attacks. I can also use my load balancer in F5 because they are providing and acting as a load balancer too, and they will support the volumetric and DDoS attacks and malicious attacks. Regarding the real-time threat intelligence feature, I do use this aspect in F5 Silverline Managed Services. It blocks malicious IPs or bad IPs for my server, protecting against my applications. For example, if someone is a bad actor trying to access via a malicious IP, I can block it because the threat intelligence has the capability to block the malicious IP. The adaptable and flexible security impacts threat response time positively. It is effective because it blocks my malicious traffic. Whenever I face issues related to that application, it automatically routes my traffic to act as a proxy and routes my traffic to their scrubbing center, especially in case of any volumetric attack.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product has a valuable security control functionality."

"The stability of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall deserves a perfect 10 out of 10."

"Some of the most valuable features of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall include its DNS zone setup and the zero trust policy."

"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."

"This solution does a good job of preventing web application attacks, SQL injections, and cross-site scripting attacks."

"It is configurable via API."

"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."

"It's pretty convenient and pretty easy to set up and run. And then kind of for static content, it also offers caching."

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"They took my website under their surveillance, scanned the website for infection, detected the incident, and removed it in a jiff."

"The solution is pretty stable. I've never faced pressing issues or hanging issue."

"The solution is very good and I feel more secure under this than I did under Symantec or McAfee."

"We get alerts if we have some malware."

"The FIM feature, the information in the new management system, and their support are the most valuable features. The scanned results are quite fast as compared to other platforms compared to scanning timing. It takes about a minute or two minutes. Also, the results of the Comodo scan results are in detail."

"My customers see ROI in the sense that their whole environment is secure."

"The stability of the solution is very good."

"This is a good product that you can rely on."

"Most vendors fulfill the requirements for standard DDoS protection, but F5 Silverline Managed Services has a better understanding of defending web applications like HTTP and can mitigate more bot activity than any other vendor."

"What really stands out for me in terms of advantages of F5 Silverline Managed Services is that in a single cloud platform, I can protect my web applications against attacks."

"The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process."

"It's a good front end for public infrastructure"

"Overall, this is a good security solution, but there is no such thing as a perfect appliance in IT."

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Cons

"Cloudflare should update the version of the ModSecurity core rule set that they run on."

"The accuracy of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall could be improved by reducing the number of false-negative alerts."

"Support can be challenging at times."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."

"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."

"We don't even use Cloudflare Bot Management because it's too expensive; you need to pay per request, and it's much cheaper to get one or two additional machines."

"The rate limiting functionality could be enhanced, as we find it somewhat limited."

"The reporting could be improved if it were more granular."

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"A small problem is from the support team. Sometimes they are a bit delayed."

"Better CDN could be a great thing since this is the best that any website owners would be interested in for protecting their website."

"The solution needs to build better performance, specifically in the hardware resources."

"The portal is a little slow."

"The solution needs to build better performance, specifically in the hardware resources."

"Improvements could include the creation of highly optimized profiles, optimization deployments, and compression profiles for better performance."

"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."

"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."

"I just hope the price can be cheaper."

"One negative aspect is that the product is expensive."

"Sometimes tech support can be slow. They take more time assigning engineers to complex issues, however, they resolve the issues by joining me to fix them."

"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."

"In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It starts at $20 and can easily go up to $200 monthly"

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? I believe the pricing is not the best, but it's reasonable and acceptable. We also use the McAfee system in parallel. In terms of pricing, its okay - not great, but not bad either. It falls in the middle, which is acceptable. In terms of support licensing, last time, we were searching for a solution, and we considered products from resellers rather than directly from the cloud provider. However, the pricing we encountered was exceptionally high. As a result, we are inclined to select support from the reseller."

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

"The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."

"The solution's pricing option needs to be more transparent for enterprise clients."

"We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."

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"Comodo cWatch’s first level, which has fewer features, costs $7."

"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be reduced."

"The product’s pricing is reasonable."

"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better, they are not very flexible. The price of the solution is based on the requirements of the enterprise."

"F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works based on your bandwidth. They look at the clean bandwidth and do the pricing. 20% of a total pipe would be a clean bandwidth. The list price or a non-negotiated price for F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall would be around $2,200 per application per year for everything that you need. When you get into an enterprise kind of a setup, they negotiate this to the last bit. I would easily take 20% on that, which would be the cost, but it should cover all your Advance WAF features, bot protection, tech campaign, etc. It is built as a package and gives you most of the capability. You don't get the mobile SDK, which is an additional license. Mobile SDK is required only if you're buying or if you have a mobile application, and you are going to instrument F5 or Imperva into your mobile appliance. This anyways would be an additional module. It doesn't come within the WAF, but it is a WAF feature."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

17%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

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Financial Services Firm

17%

Comms Service Provider

14%

Insurance Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	6

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	9

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

The price of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

I don't see room for improvement to Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. One thing I don't know much about because we...

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What is your primary use case for Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

We are using Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's advanced reporting and analytics tools with their Zero Trust, so e...

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What needs improvement with Comodo cWatch?

The portal is a little slow. I have to wait for it to load all the information. CDN's performance must be improved.

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What is your primary use case for Comodo cWatch?

I use the solution to detect vulnerabilities in the site.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Comodo cWatch?

Comodo cWatch’s price is very good compared to Cloudflare’s. The first level of Cloudflare costs us about $20. The ne...

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Is Citrix ADC (formerly Netscaler) the best ADC to use and if not why?

For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you hav...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Silverline Managed Services?

Regarding the pricing of F5 Silverline Managed Services, I would say it is quite affordable.

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What needs improvement with F5 Silverline Managed Services?

In terms of areas for improvement, I would say that one scenario is that F5 Silverline Managed Services needs to adap...

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Also Known As

Cloudflare WAF

cWatch

F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, F5 Silverline DDoS Protection

Overview

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's intuitive dashboard enables users to build powerful rules through easy clicks and also provides Terraform integration. Every request to the WAF is inspected against the rule engine and the threat intelligence curated from protecting over 27 Million websites. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged or logged as per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, agnostic of whether it lives on-premise or in the cloud. Analytics and Cloudflare Logs enable visibility into actionable metrics for the user.

Cloudflare

Cwatch delivers robust website protection from hackers - while it helps you stay calm when online. It does not just stop with protection but helps in scanning the website to remove malware instantly. It is a complete website security tool that delivers state-of-the-art protection techniques to ensure SMB website security from simple to complex threat landscape. It ensures early threat detection, instant solution and sophisticated preventive measures.

Xcitium

F5's Silverline Managed Services is a SaaS solution delivering DDoS protection, managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, and managed Shape Security Fraud and Anti-bot solutions.

Silverline services include 24x7 access to F5's Security Operations Center (SOC). F5's expert security professionals use F5 products with state-of-the-art security tools to ensure the best protection possible. As an add-on to Silverline DDoS or WAF services, Silverline Threat Intelligence integrates dynamic lists of threatening IP addresses to give context for policy decisions.

Sample Customers

crunchbase, udacity, marketo, okcupid, zendesk

Xerox, Intel, HP, UPS, Western Union, Western Digital

City Bank, Ricacorp Properties, Miele, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office

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