Compare Check Point DDoS Protector vs. Radware DefensePro
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
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"I really love the Data Explorer. I use it all the time to go in and craft exactly what I need to see. I'm able to then take that story and explain it to the executives. I've done that a couple of times and it is helpful." "In terms of the solution’s real-time visibility across our network infrastructure, I have not been able to find any other monitoring or netflow visualization tool that gives me the kind of information I get from Kentik. If I need to take a deep-dive into something that I see, it's really easy for me to do that. Whereas with most other things, I have to use five or six other tools to get that kind of data, with Kentik, I have it all in one place." "Having the API access allows us to do a great deal of automation around a lot of our reporting and management tools." "We're also using Kentik to ingest metrics. It's a useful feature, and its response time, whenever we're pulling back the data, is higher than our on-prem solution." "I am able to do a lot of work on the visualization end to create different visualizations and different ways to get information out of it." "The drill-down into detailed views of network activity helps to quickly pinpoint locations and causes. All the information is there." "The most valuable feature is being able to pull traffic patterns; to and from destinations. We're able to understand where our traffic is going, our top talkers from an AS set, as well as where our traffic's coming from." "The most valuable features have been anything around traffic engineering: being able to determine the source or destination of a surge of traffic, whether it's DDoS-related, or a customer just happened to have a sudden uptick in traffic. Being able to tell where that's coming from or where it's going to enables us to do things based on that." | "Currently, we have fewer incidents with viruses. We improved our IQ operations and security using this solution. Our company's better after using Check Point." "The is a really low level of the false-positive alerts (when the clean traffic is marked as DDoS) due to some advanced techniques used by Check Point under the hood." | "With the secure signature feature, the Radware DefensePro is a big assistance. It is a big help to our customers to improve their productivity and performance. The prompt response from the Radware team is definitely increasing in the new era." "A flexible affordable solution for defense against DDos attacks." "The DDoS protection that the solution provides is its most valuable feature." "All of our traffic has to pass through the appliance, so we can very quickly mitigate the attack. This is a very valuable feature. On top of that, it's not only volumetric attack protection that the solution offers, but also layer 7 attack protection as well." "The most valuable feature is the ability to create signatures on-demand." "The reporting is very good and provides us with a comprehensive description of where attacks are emanating from." |
Cons | ||
"I've checked out the V4 version of the interface and it's still a little bit clunky for me to use. I still go back to the old interface. That's definitely one that they still need to work on. It doesn't seem like everything that you get in the V3, the older interface, is there. For instance, I was trying to add a user or do the administrative tasks in V4, and I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to do that." "There is room for improvement around the usability of the API. It's a hugely complex task to call it and you need a lot of backing to be able to do it. I should say, as someone who's not in networking, maybe it's easier for people who are in networking, but for me that one part is not very user-friendly." "I would like to see them explore the area of cost analysis." "The only downside to Kentik, something that I don't like, is that it's great that it shows you where these anomalies lie, but it's not actionable. Kentik is valuable, don't get me wrong, but if it had an actionable piece to it..." "They're moving more in a direction where they are saying, "Hey, here's information that you may be interested in or may a need," before the question has to explicitly be asked. Continuing to move in that direction would be a good thing." "We asked for a way, regarding the potential networks that exist, to hook Kentik up with external tools like peering DBs to correlate things together and see what we can do... This is all in the [next] beta now." "I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow data to application performance — tracing — so that we could overlay that data more readily. With more companies going hybrid, flow logs and flow data, whether it be VPC or on-prem, matched with application performance and trace data, is pretty important." | "Check Point should develop a DDoS solution because they don't have one and we need to use another solution, in our case, Imperva. This is a problem because we need to have two firewalls. We would like to only have one solution because it would improve the management, we would have fewer incidents, and we wouldn't need to talk to more than one person for support." "For a long time, there was no software version of R80.10 available for the Check Point DDoS Protector software appliances, and we had to stay on the quite outdated R77.30 version." | "Radware DefensePro requires a continuous learning process. Using this technology, we can improve our network. Based on the different attack mechanisms, we use Radware DefensePro to provide security for our clients' networks very effectively." "It could incorporate more intelligence for reacting with web site visitors." "I had some trouble in the registration account prior to deployment, but it was fixed. They were not very fast or responsive, however. It took about one week to resolve the issue." "The solution needs a bit more functionality. It would be good if DefensePro could have anti-bot functionalities in order to stop bots like web scrapers from getting onto our customers’ network." "I would like to see more focus on layer seven protection." "This solution may not cover all of the requirements in situations for which I am unfamiliar, and there is always room for improvement." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | ||
"We have an annual contract with Kentik that we renew each year for a set number of licenses. We also have some burstable licenses which we can spin up and spin down, and those are paid as they are used." | "It's an expensive solution. It's one of the most expensive solutions in the world. It's cheaper than Palo Alto and Cisco but these are expensive solutions. Fortinet is cheaper." | "It is sort of middle-of-the-road for this type of solution." "The Radware DefensePro was bundled together with our security platform." "The pricing is based on the amount of network traffic and the number of packets being inspected." |
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Questions from the Community | ||
Question: What do you like most about Kentik? Top Answer: One of the valuable features is the intuitive nature of building out reports, and then triggering actions based on… more » Top Answer: Without speaking directly about numbers, it's about the cost of a cross-connect, per device per month. Of course, some… more » Question: What needs improvement with Kentik? Top Answer: I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points | Top Answer: Arbor has the end to end solution for DDoS protection, while Radware needs to work with their 3rd party partners. Top Answer: The reporting is very good and provides us with a comprehensive description of where attacks are emanating from. Top Answer: The pricing is based on the amount of network traffic and the number of packets being inspected. |
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| "Radware Defense Pro" | ||
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Overview  | ||
Kentik's AIOps Network Traffic Intelligence platform unifies network operations, performance, security, and business intelligence. With a purpose-built big data engine delivered as public or private SaaS, Kentik captures a high-resolution view of actual network traffic data and enriches it with critical application and business data, so every network event or analysis can be tied to revenue & costs, customer & user experience, performance & risk. | Modern DDoS attacks use new techniques to exploit areas that traditional security solutions are not equipped to protect. These attacks can cause serious network downtime to businesses who rely on networks and Web services to operate. DDoS Protector Security Appliances and Cloud DDoS Protection Services block destructive DDoS attacks before they cause damage | DefensePro is a real-time, perimeter attack mitigation device that secures organizations against emerging network and applications threats. Part of Radware’s attack mitigation solution, DefensePro protects the infrastructure against network and application downtime (or slow time), application vulnerability exploitation, malware spread, network anomalies, information theft and other types of attacks. |
Offer | ||
Learn more about Kentik | Learn more about Check Point DDoS Protector | Learn more about Radware DefensePro |
Sample Customers | ||
| Pandora, Yelp, Neustar, Box, University of Washington, Zoom, Tata, and Cogent. | Boston Properties | SingleHop |
Top Industries | ||
Comms Service Provider43% University14% Computer Software Company14% Music Company14% Comms Service Provider31% Computer Software Company22% Manufacturing Company6% Financial Services Firm5% | No Data Available | Comms Service Provider32% Computer Software Company29% Financial Services Firm9% Manufacturing Company7% |
Company Size | ||
Small Business9% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise73% | No Data Available | Small Business70% Large Enterprise30% |
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Check Point DDoS Protector is ranked 16th in DDoS with 2 reviews while Radware DefensePro is ranked 9th in DDoS with 6 reviews. Check Point DDoS Protector is rated 8.0, while Radware DefensePro is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Check Point DDoS Protector writes "Good performance and a small number of false positives helps to transparently and reliably prevents attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware DefensePro writes "Verbose and descriptive reporting, reliable, and it is easy to scale". Check Point DDoS Protector is most compared with Arbor DDoS, whereas Radware DefensePro is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Imperva Incapsula, Fortinet FortiDDoS and A10 Thunder TPS.
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