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We performed a comparison between Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and SonicWall Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. SonicWall Web Application Firewall Report (Updated: March 2024).
771,212 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The integration of Cloudflare with Cloud Suite is its most valuable feature.""The product has improved our security posture by blocking bad actors.""The product has a valuable security control functionality.""The security features are valuable. The particular feature we use is called OWASP.""I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features.""Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall.""Does a good job preventing web application attacks.""It is configurable via API."

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"The solution offers better data protection than competitors.""We use SonicWall Web Application Firewall for security and tunneling.""Capture ATP is a good additional feature in the latest version."

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Cons
"Its stability could be better.""Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should include port forwarding features.""They have some limitations with third-party integrations.""It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms.""The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement.""A key challenge arises when dealing with numerous integrations with HVAC systems. Depending on the specifics, there might be some configuration mismatches, which necessitate specific support.""The blocked logs are difficult to read at times.""Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well. They have documentation for everything you're looking for, but they lack a single piece of documentation to tie everything together. As a new user or beginner, it took us a little bit of time to figure out how to put all these things in place."

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"We should get the logs from the solution, and it should communicate with the local DNS.""We have a lot of unknown errors popping up in the latest version.""The solution needs an access management feature with API integration so we can assign certain levels of access within groups."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."
  • "We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."
  • "The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."
  • "Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "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 solution's pricing option needs to be more transparent for enterprise clients."
  • "Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product has a valuable security control functionality.
    Top Answer:Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions.
    Top Answer:The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement.
    Top Answer:We use SonicWall Web Application Firewall for security and tunneling.
    Top Answer:We should get the logs from the solution, and it should communicate with the local DNS. There is some lag in the solution's technical support response time.
    Top Answer:Our company uses the solution to protect our website that is for internal resources only and does not allow enterprise access.
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    Cloudflare WAF
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    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.

    The SonicWall Web Application Firewal l (WAF) solutions enables the defense-in-depth strategy to protect your web applications running in a private, public or hybrid cloud environment. compromise the application, steal data and/or cause a denial-of-service.

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    crunchbase, udacity, marketo, okcupid, zendesk
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    Computer Software Company22%
    Financial Services Firm22%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Insurance Company11%
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    Educational Organization24%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Comms Service Provider5%
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    Small Business61%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise28%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise41%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. SonicWall Web Application Firewall
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. SonicWall Web Application Firewall and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    771,212 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews while SonicWall Web Application Firewall is ranked 25th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while SonicWall Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall Web Application Firewall writes "A stable and durable solution that can be used for security and tunneling". Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas SonicWall Web Application Firewall is most compared with . See our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. SonicWall Web Application Firewall report.

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