Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall vs Radware Alteon comparison

Ivanti and Radware are both solutions in the Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) category. Ivanti is ranked #16, while Radware is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.9. Additionally, 100% of Ivanti users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Radware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Radware Alteon and Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall are web application security products. Ivanti has the advantage due to its extensive feature set and perceived value, while Radware is preferred for its immediate customer support.

Features:Radware Alteon offers load balancing, robust network monitoring, and traffic management capabilities. Ivanti provides comprehensive threat protection, application-level security, and advanced analytics for detailed application insights.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is known for a streamlined deployment process and extensive support resources, which benefit organizations that need rapid integration. Radware Alteon provides detailed deployment guidance and is recognized for its quick support response, helping companies with prompt issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI:Radware Alteon has competitive setup costs with long-term savings from hardware efficiencies. Ivanti’s pricing is higher, but the ROI aligns with organizations prioritizing application security and extensive protection protocols. Pricing strategy should match organizational goals and security priorities.

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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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Mike Duffy

Consultant at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Good feature set and is simple to deploy

In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else. We sort of stopped deploying them because of that. There are additional costs to the standard licensing. There are bandwidth prices. The feature set is quite good. We've been told to stop using them because of the price. If they can do something to address that I believe it would be better. On the latest version they've got a community edition, which is quite a good bandwidth, but in essence, it's to address the entry-level price. When you get to 10 gig bandwidth, it's way too expensive.

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RaynielBadiola

Technical Manager at Secur Links

Load balancing has simplified deployments and improves application performance monitoring

I don't think of features that will make Radware Alteon better because it is already better, but to be able to compete also with other competitors, the price is something to consider. It is not actually that expensive, but for their level, there are other load balancers with the same feature, but they have a lower price, so pricing is the only point I can give. In the future, I would like to see some other security features added, such as DDoS, which is Distributed Denial of Service. Currently, it has the Web Application Firewall feature, but in the future, they can also add a DDoS feature or a more in-depth DDoS feature.

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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

"Someone with a basic understanding of networking and security will be able to implement the firewall's basic features within 15 minutes."

"The initial setup process is simple."

"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."

"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."

"Cloudflare is cheaper compared to Azure WAF, which I have considered before."

"There is a huge signature repository"

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

"The most valuable part of the solution for us overall is exactly that it is a Software-as-a-Service product."

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"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."

"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy."

"Resources per application: You can dedicate to a business-critical app or multiple apps."

"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."

"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."

"The solution has been very stable."

"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."

"The best feature of Radware Alteon is basically the configuration; how we configure it is very straightforward, and it is very simple to configure."

"Overall, I would rate Alteon a nine out of ten."

"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."

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Cons

"I have experienced some difficulties with Cloudflare's support as a customer based in India."

"Its stability could be better."

"We have noticed some latency when the call goes through the firewall. That could be improved."

"Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well."

"The dashboard could be more user-friendly."

"The notification part could be improved. It's very much connected to Web Application Firewall, rate-limiting, and DDoS protection."

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

"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."

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"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."

"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered; we've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."

"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."

"I would like to see more educational and training sessions."

"I know they are working on it, however, I would like to see an improved community presence, similar to the one for their main competitor, F5."

"In the past, we suffered some key performance bugs; for example, there was a memory leak that persisted during firmware releases, and we had to reboot and failover the devices every Wednesday at 6:00 pm for about a year until the vendor fixed the issue."

"For a migration from F5 to Radware, the conversion of certain features is challenging."

"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."

"There are certain features I would like to see in the next release."

"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

"The solution is expensive."

"It is not too pricey."

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

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

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

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"I'm content with Alteon's pricing."

"Our government agency opted for Radware Alteon due to its affordability and efficiency. While I can't say precisely how much it costs the organization, the price per device. In India, we always look for affordable products, so I assume Alteon is cost-effective because the government chose it."

"Price-wise, the solution is a reasonable one."

"The Radware team we work with always gives us the best price. As a university, our budget is limited. We need something that is the best solution but with a low or economical pricing. We are getting a better price than competitors. The shift from Barracuda to Alteon was primarily due to cost efficiency. It is very economical, and the price fits our business needs."

"It is the best in the industry. It was better than the competition, and that is what made us go ahead with them."

"Its pricing is very good. It is very competitive. Radware Alteon is the leader in the market. At a lesser price, we get a good product and also good support. Other vendors who are providing load balancers charge separately for two items. You have the hardware cost, and you have the support cost, whereas, in the case of Radware, you get both in a single package."

"The pricing seems reasonable to me for what the solution provides. It is within the parameters of this type of solution."

"The price conforms to what the tool provides. It is not an inexpensive tool and not all companies can afford an ADC solution such as Alteon. However, it justifies its price with the options it offers."

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Cloudflare WAF

Pulse vWAF, Pulse Virtual Traffic Manager

Alteon, Radware AppWall

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.

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Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall delivers scalable application security for off-the-shelf and custom applications, including third-party frameworks. Apply business rules to online traffic, inspect and block attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), and filter outgoing traffic and data to mask credit card data. Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall helps achieve compliance with PCI-DSS requirements.

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Radware Alteon is an advanced network solution offering exceptional load balancing, SSL offloading, and integrated application protection. Its high performance and user-friendly interface make it ideal for enhancing server capacity and reliability in demanding environments.

Radware Alteon enhances performance with robust load balancing, SSL-TLS acceleration, and comprehensive security features. Its automated threat detection and real-time analytics provide crucial insights and mitigation within high-demand scenarios. Users benefit from seamless server and application traffic management along with web application firewall capabilities, ensuring high availability and compliance with security standards. Scalability is supported through strong hardware and ease of integration, although improvements are needed in cloud service automation and interface simplicity. Challenges include response times and live traffic monitoring, with limited resources in support and documentation. Scalability faces constraints due to throughput limitations.

What are the key features of Radware Alteon?

Load Balancing: Optimizes traffic distribution across servers to enhance performance.
SSL Offloading: Alleviates pressure on servers via SSL-TLS acceleration and certificate management.
Application Protection: Integrates security measures to safeguard applications effectively.
Threat Detection: Automates identification of threats to ensure immediate action.
Real-time Analytics: Provides insights into network performance and security status.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

High Availability: Reliable load management ensures consistent service uptime.
Scalability: Supports network growth efficiently with robust hardware capabilities.
Performance Efficiency: Enhances server functionality by offloading intensive tasks like SSL processing.
Enhanced Security: Protects applications with integrated security features, reducing vulnerabilities.

Radware Alteon is crucial for industries requiring reliable load balancing across multiple servers and applications. It supports inbound and outbound traffic management, focusing on web application protection and data center security. Businesses in telecommunications, finance, and retail utilize its capabilities for server and link balancing, ensuring adherence to strict security standards with seamless functionality across diverse network environments.

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