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We performed a comparison between Fastly and Radware DefensePro 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Fastly vs. Radware DefensePro Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute.""Compute@Edge features are valuable to me.""Its initial setup process is straightforward.""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.""The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly.""Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."

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"As a service provider, we use the SecOps dashboard feature. That's where we check the time of attacks to see if an attack is happening at the moment or if it has already happened... It is very dynamic and helps us know when an attack occurred, how long it lasted, and what type of attack it was.""They have a hybrid model approach if a client wants to go that way.""A flexible affordable solution for defense against DDos attacks.""All of our traffic has to pass through the appliance, so we can very quickly mitigate the attack. This is a very valuable feature. On top of that, it's not only volumetric attack protection that the solution offers, but also layer 7 attack protection as well.""With the secure signature feature, the Radware DefensePro is a big assistance. It is a big help to our customers to improve their productivity and performance. The prompt response from the Radware team is definitely increasing in the new era.""This solution is extremely scalable and has the highest level throughput (100G) which complies with Telco deployment.""The pricing is reasonable. It's not overly expensive.""A valuable feature is the speed of signature updates."

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Cons
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement.""The product should provide improved bot detection and management.""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.""The solution's pricing could be better.""Support is not that great."

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"I would like to have more granular steps according to protected bandwidth, so the granularity should be better.""APSolute Vision needs to be more granular so that it's possible to get real-time information.""They should add artificial intelligence to the platform. It is currently missing the machine learning piece.""It could incorporate more intelligence for reacting with web site visitors.""I would like to see better implementation of a zero-day attack implementation strategy with self-mitigation.""I would like to see more graphics within the dashboard. Right now, you are required to buy tools in order to have graphical representation for your monitoring.""The dashboard could be updated.""If they would go to a cloud-based approach, that would give much more flexibility in terms of working with them."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."
  • "It is an expensive solution."
  • "The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."
  • "I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."
  • "Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "The pricing has been very competitive."
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  • "The product's pricing is a good value."
  • "The cost for maintenance is cheaper because the majority of the deployments using the solution are in areas where cost of maintenance is also lower."
  • "Licensing of Radware is quite simple and straightforward, while Arbor DDos is a bit complicated."
  • "It is sort of middle-of-the-road for this type of solution."
  • "The Radware DefensePro was bundled together with our security platform."
  • "The price was well over six figures."
  • "The initial cost is over $100,000 for one appliance."
  • "The pricing is based on the amount of network traffic and the number of packets being inspected."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer: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… more »
    Top Answer:It offers valuable insights into ongoing and past attacks, aiding in post-incident analysis and continuous improvement of our cybersecurity strategy.
    Top Answer:It is a good option for those who are looking for on-premises protection against DDoS attacks.
    Top Answer:They need to provide more granular control over security policies, allowing organizations to tailor configurations based on their specific needs and risk profiles. There is a restriction on the number… more »
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    Also Known As
    "Radware Defense Pro"
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    Overview
    Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly’s edge cloud platform to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand.

    Radware DefensePro is a next-generation robust Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) solution. The solution provides real-time network intrusion prevention that will protect an organization's valuable ecosystem from being damaged or immobilized by malicious attacks or threats. Radware DefensePro will aggressively protect an organization's network to negate any potential downtime and minimize any vulnerabilities caused by theft, malware, ransomware, or any other potential network attack scenario.

    Radware DefensePro is also very effective in defending against IoT-based, Burst, DNS, and TLS/SSL attacks to ensure organizations are able to stay protected against emerging network multivector attacks, ransom DDoS campaigns, IoT botnets, phantom floods, and many other types of cyberattacks common in the marketplace today.

    Radware DefensePro provides users with the following branded security protocols:

    • Reputation Engine: A real-time anti-phishing, anti-trojan protocol that is able to discover any potential threats that have been developed to cause disruption in the financial sector, information theft, and by the dissemination of malware. 
    • Denial of Service Protection: This protocol is designed to protect against DDoS attacks by discovering any potential threats and any additional anomalous behavior in real-time and will thoroughly investigate each and every new connection to ensure their validity to the network and maintain security.
    • Network Behavior Analysis (NBA): This protocol utilizes a Radware patented real-time behavioral-based next-generation signature technology to intuitively discover suspicious behaviors that may predict an attack. The NBA protocol immediately uses that data to block the attack.
    • Intrusion Prevention System (IPS): Built on an intuitive stateful static signature detection technology, IPS will glean from systematic and emergency updates to comprehensively protect the organization's network.

    Radware DefensePro has many valuable benefits. Some of its most valuable benefits include:

    • Prevent system downtime.
    • Minimize employee downtime.
    • Maintain peak performance.
    • Minimize network attack surface.
    • Minimize overall risk.
    • Improve response time to potential threats.
    • Improve defense and security.
    • Protect the organization's brand and reputation.
    • Cost-effective
    • Excellent Return on Investment

    Regrettably, DDoS attacks are on the rise in today’s busy marketplace.  As these types of attacks become more sophisticated and pervasive, it is incumbent on today’s busy enterprise organizations to ensure they have an effective and aggressive DDoS solution in place. Radware DefensePro is a valued-added effective solution to consider.

    Reviews from Real Users

    “The most important thing for me right now in the Radware portfolio is that Radware went to the cloud and has a flexible model based on virtual machines that can be delivered in our data center model, which could be delivered via the public cloud. That’s the big advantage of Radware, from my perspective.” A Senior Product Manager - ICT Solutions, Marketing, and Development of Cybersecurity at a comms service provider

    “The important features include automated protection and defense against many attacks. It's important that our networks are protected in the Radware cloud.” John P., Network Architect at Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones

    “In terms of the environment that I work in, the SSL, DNS, and HTTP are all valuable features. This is a very technologically simple and effective solution.” Aliasgar R. System Engineer at Check Point Software Technologies

    Sample Customers
    Twitter, Airbnb, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times, Ticketmaster, The Drupal Association, Opera, about.com, imgur, Etsy, Foursquare, GitHub, New Relic, shopify, Shazam, Firebase
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Retailer8%
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    Comms Service Provider44%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Outsourcing Company6%
    Educational Organization6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization48%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Government3%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business71%
    Large Enterprise29%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise58%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise40%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise56%
    Large Enterprise31%
    Buyer's Guide
    Fastly vs. Radware DefensePro
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Fastly vs. Radware DefensePro and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    770,765 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Fastly is ranked 10th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 6 reviews while Radware DefensePro is ranked 5th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 22 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Radware DefensePro is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware DefensePro writes "Regular signature update with good reporting and analytics". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas Radware DefensePro is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS, Fortinet FortiDDoS and Check Point DDoS Protector. See our Fastly vs. Radware DefensePro report.

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