We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cloudflare provides Zero Trustability, load balancing, and DDoS protection, as well as automatic SSL certificate protection and a user-friendly GUI. On the other hand, Wiz prioritizes context and risk prioritization with its Security Graph, which allows for custom reports and pinpointing vulnerabilities. Cloudflare has room for improvement in terms of reporting and support response time, as well as providing more servers for better traffic routing and easier log collection. On the other hand, Wiz needs preventive controls, refined reporting, customizable dashboards, and improved risk assessment.
Service and Support: Cloudflare's technical support could be improved for lower-tier plans, while Wiz's customer service is highly praised with excellent technical support and knowledgeable CSMs. Users rate Wiz's customer support very highly with scores of nine or ten out of ten.
Ease of Deployment: Cloudflare's process is generally quick and stress-free, but may take longer if a lot of equipment is needed. Wiz's deployment was done in partnership with the company and only took a few hours, and was spread across multiple public clouds.
Pricing: Cloudflare has a premium pricing model that ranges from free to $1,500 per month, which is considered expensive by some users. They offer unlimited bandwidth, but some enterprise customers would prefer a custom pricing model. On the other hand, Wiz has fair and simple pricing that is on the higher end of the market. They have specific features for easy selection, but some users are concerned about potential price increases and lack of transparency.
ROI: Cloudflare and Wiz are two tools that have been positively reviewed for their ROI. Cloudflare focuses on website protection and preventing server overload, while Wiz assists with asset management, identifying vulnerabilities, and compliance.
Comparison Results: Wiz is the preferred choice for cloud-based businesses over Cloudflare because of its ability to provide context and prioritize risks in the cloud environment, as well as its combination of cloud security posture management, threat intelligence, and risk prioritization. Cloudflare offers good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks, but Wiz's focus on cloud security and risk prioritization makes it the better option.
"Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. You don't necessarily need a certificate if you have a connection between your website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host."
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."
"The technical support is good."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is that it has a free version. They give us the free version with the anti-DDoS features and also the load balancing solution."
"DDoS attacks target unprotected machines. Cloudflare detects and stops these attacks using internal systems. It identifies incoming DDoS attacks, issuing challenges or blocking them immediately."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"The first thing that stood out was the ease of installation and the quick value we got out of the solution."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The vulnerability management modules and the discovery and inventory are the most valuable features. Before using Wiz, it was a very manual process for both. After implementing it, we're able to get all of the analytics into a single platform that gives us visibility across all the systems in our cloud. We're able to correspond and understand what the vulnerability landscape looks like a lot faster."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"The pricing could be improved."
"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."
"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."
"In the last two years, there has been a certain amount of downtime when using the VDM."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"Technical support is lacking."
"If they improve on the placement of their data centers, it would be better. I'm living in a remote area. I would like to connect to them without any kind of lag."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"Given the level of visibility into all the cloud environments Wiz provides, it would be nice if they could integrate some kind of mechanism to better manage tenants on multiple platforms. For example, let's say that some servers don't have an application they need, such as an antivirus. Wiz could include an API or something to push those applications out to the servers. It would be great if you could remedy these issues directly from the Wiz platform."
Cloudflare is ranked 11th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 56 reviews while Wiz is ranked 2nd in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 11 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Lacework. See our Cloudflare vs. Wiz report.
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