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Top Answer: Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GRE tunnels. We have decreased site load times on Mobile 3G from 8 to 1,6 seconds by… more » Top Answer: Imperva Incapsula. Has the biggest POP capacity. Top Answer: It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls. | Top Answer: The GUI is user-friendly. Top Answer: FortiWeb is more expensive than some competing products. Top Answer: The integration with other products should be improved. This product does not come with bare metal protection, so we need more network features. We don't want to be as dependent on a separate… more » |
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Cloudflare is the leading performance and security company helping to build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers more than 9 million Internet applications. More than 10 trillion Internet requests flow through Cloudflare’s network each month, accounting for nearly 10% of all Internet requests globally. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. | FortiWeb is a web application firewall (WAF) that protects hosted web applications from attacks that target known and unknown exploits. Using multi-layered and correlated detection methods, FortiWeb defends applications from known vulnerabilities and from zero-day threats. |
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Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more. | Lush, Barnabas Health, Options, Riverside Healthcare, Hillsbourough County Schools, Columbia Public Schools, Schiller AG |
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Marketing Services Firm15% Engineering Company15% Financial Services Firm15% Energy/Utilities Company15% Computer Software Company27% Comms Service Provider23% Media Company8% Retailer5% | Financial Services Firm29% Comms Service Provider19% Computer Software Company14% Government14% Computer Software Company29% Comms Service Provider29% Government6% Media Company5% |
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Small Business66% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise16% Small Business35% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise54% | Small Business39% Midsize Enterprise25% Large Enterprise36% |
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in DDoS with 7 reviews while Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 22 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "Robust, secure and innovative; technical support needs to be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Good pricing, and provides for faster and more secure application deployment". Cloudflare is most compared with Imperva Incapsula, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai, Arbor DDoS and SiteLock, whereas Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with Fortinet FortiADC, F5 BIG-IP, Fortinet FortiOS, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Cloudflare vs. Fortinet FortiWeb report.
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