Fortra Managed WAF vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway comparison

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.

Web applications are essential for your business and crucial for customer interactions. However, they also present opportunities for attackers to access your critical assets and data. To safeguard your business, it's vital to differentiate between legitimate and malicious traffic in real-time. Fortra’s Alert Logic offers a highly adaptable, enterprise-level, cloud-ready Web Application Firewall (WAF) managed by a team of experts, simplifying the complexity of WAF management for you. With Fortra Managed WAF, you'll have comprehensive features to protect your web apps and APIs. Allow-listing, deny-listing, and signature-based blocking are augmented by a learning engine that builds a model of your application to recognize activity that deviates from a known-good baseline of traffic. Using both a positive and negative security models in this way means our virtual WAF knows how to recognize malicious activity as well as unexpected activity.

Azure Application Gateway is a web traffic load balancer that enables you to manage traffic to your web applications. Traditional load balancers operate at the transport layer (OSI layer 4 - TCP and UDP) and route traffic based on source IP address and port, to a destination IP address and port.

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