Senior Information Security Engineer at DXC Technology
Real User
2021-03-08T09:56:25Z
Mar 8, 2021
I like its ability to identify known attacks, including DDOS attacks. It's valuable because software must be able to stop known attacks. Application attacks are evolving all the time. When it comes to software-as-a-service, we need to have software that knows about all the latest attacks. It should also protect against major unknown attacks.
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It provides an ease of policy management.
The product's bot protection feature is valuable for our company.
The solution can be used for threat prevention or as a cloud-to-cloud backup system
The most valuable features of the solution are it is plug and play, has automated policies, a simple configuration, and is easy to create rules.
I like its ability to identify known attacks, including DDOS attacks. It's valuable because software must be able to stop known attacks. Application attacks are evolving all the time. When it comes to software-as-a-service, we need to have software that knows about all the latest attacks. It should also protect against major unknown attacks.