We performed a comparison between Citrix Web App and API Protection and Radware Alteon 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."The solution's technical support is good."
"I like the solution's simplicity compared to Citrix's on-prem solutions."
"The advantage of Citrix Web App and API Protection is just its graphic user interface for beginners. The solution is nothing special, but we have to use it for the corporation. Another advantage of Citrix Web App and API Protection is that we have our copy to test things and get the know-how of it."
"Citrix is good for application protection."
"The stability is good. If there is a problem, the load will be shifted to other sites automatically, which has been a good experience for us."
"We have good customer support."
"The web application firewall which protects our services on the internet, and then of course services like our ability to provide high availability for the services we are offering are the most valuable features."
"The work balancing applications are the most valuable feature."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The product offers high availability."
"The most valuable aspect is the ability to customize the types of load-balancing scenarios needed for customized applications. Some of the load balancers on the market today are strictly out-of-hand load balancers for SSL or HTTP. Radware Alteon is most useful for customizing in-house applications based on ports and protocols."
"The strength of this solution is the application delivery controller."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"The solution's pricing is a big concern and should be improved."
"The configuration for its web application firewall is complicated."
"The product could be improved by making it easier to use and easier to implement."
"Security could be improved because then I can get rid of my Cisco firewalls. If they improve the security then I could run my security, my proxy, my firewalling and my SDN solution on one device instead of having to have multiple devices."
"The user interface could be more friendly. Some wizards and other documentation for administrators, as well as some use cases, helps us to understand the solution."
"An area for improvement in Citrix Web App and API Protection is for it to give real-time notifications and alerts. It would be practical if the solution warns you if there's an attack or if the load or traffic volume increases or decreases. An additional feature I'd like to see in Citrix Web App and API Protection is a prediction or artificial intelligence on what is happening, for example, attacks."
"The reporting is not so good. They don't have an application to connect the logs."
"The setup was not simple."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"The user interface can be improved."
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Citrix Web App and API Protection is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 11 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Citrix Web App and API Protection is rated 8.0, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Citrix Web App and API Protection writes "Affordable, provides advanced features, and protects applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Citrix Web App and API Protection is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Azure Front Door, Fortinet FortiWeb, AWS WAF and Akamai App and API Protector, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and F5 Advanced WAF. See our Citrix Web App and API Protection vs. Radware Alteon report.
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