We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"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."
"Cloudflare is a security SaaS provider that provides security and protects us from any application layer attack."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"The UI is good."
"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The solution is very good at mitigating threats."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Cloudflare's console should be made more user-friendly."
"I would like Cloudflare to offer a dedicated account manager for large enterprise clients like us."
"Latencies are always a problem."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"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."
"The solution could use more analytics on the backend to give us more insights into everything. More reports would be helpful."
"DNS Management."
"Support response time could be improved."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
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Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 56 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 37th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and AWS Shield, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WAPPLES. See our Cloudflare vs. Symantec Web Application Firewall report.
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