Radware DefensePro Other Advice

M.A. Faisal - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager at .bKash Limited

I would rate Radware DefensePro a seven out of ten.

Radware DefensePro is one of the best solutions for on-premise protection.

We have a team of four people in my cybersecurity operations team who are responsible for the maintenance of Radware DefensePro.

While Radware DefensePro offers good service availability from a failover perspective, it only covers 90 percent of my DDoS protection needs.

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JorgeBlanco - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Analyst at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees

To someone who wants to go with the cheapest solution, I would say that "cheap" often ends up being expensive. With Radware, we have the support of a company that specializes in these issues and provides efficient implementation and support. My advice would be to not hesitate to pick a company or a product that has excellent capabilities, like Radware, and has automatic threat detection and mitigation.

You have the full support of Radware for everything related to implementation and support. They are always very attentive to their clients and to all the updates. They have great support. Don't think it over so much; just get it.

DefensePro is a very dynamic platform, very easy to manage, and very intuitive. It has always kept our services up, mitigating all the denial-of-service attacks we've had. We have not had any incidents. It is an excellent product.

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¿Cómo ha ayudado a mi organización?

Nos ayuda mucho en cuanto a ataques, ataques volumétricos, ataques DDoS, etc. Es muy útil porque también se anticipa a posibles atacantes. Además, nos ayuda a automatizar, por lo que no siempre tenemos que estar pendientes de las alertas. Bloquea automáticamente los tipos de ataques que ocurren a diario.

Nos da tranquilidad con su automatización porque DefensePro ya tiene ataques en su base de conocimiento. Detiene los ataques y anticipa otros ataques.

DefensePro es muy importante porque la disponibilidad de nuestros servicios es crucial. Con la prevalencia de los ataques de denegación de servicio y los ataques volumétricos, es vital para nosotros contar con DefensePro para prevenirlos. Garantiza que tengamos una respuesta sólida a las numerosas amenazas y ataques que surgen a diario. Tenemos la disponibilidad de los servicios que nuestros clientes necesitan cuando los necesitan. Ese es el mayor beneficio para nosotros.

Desde que empezamos a utilizar DefensePro, no hemos tenido problemas con la disponibilidad de nuestro servicio. Ha ayudado a mitigar los ataques futuros. Hasta el momento, no hemos tenido ningún incidente asociado con problemas de denegación de servicio.

Además, en las investigaciones que hemos realizado para verificar informes, hemos visto que generalmente se trata de ataques reales de denegación de servicio. La tasa de falsos positivos no es alta. Ha reducido los falsos positivos en más del 90 por ciento.

Nos dimos cuenta de estos beneficios casi de inmediato. Tan pronto como instalamos DefensePro, comenzó a desviar todos los ataques que se producían. Empezamos a ver alertas, especialmente de ataques DDoS.

¿Qué es lo más valioso?

La plataforma de administración y revisión de ataques que están ocurriendo o han ocurrido es muy dinámica y fácil de usar y administrar.

Como proveedor de servicios, utilizamos la función de los dashboards de SecOps. Ahí es donde verificamos la hora de los ataques para ver si se está produciendo un ataque en ese momento o si ya ocurrió, y recopilamos información como cuánto tiempo duró el ataque. Es muy dinámico y nos ayuda a saber cuándo ocurrió un ataque, cuánto duró y qué tipo de ataque fue. Con esta funcionalidad tenemos a mano la información que necesitamos. Sabemos lo que está pasando en tiempo real y lo que ha pasado durante el día. Revisamos el dashboard para detectar problemas de control y generamos y mantenemos controles con temas de ataque antivirus.

Para monitorear y reportar métricas, los dashboards son muy útiles. Generamos controles para ataques DDoS mensualmente y eso lo hace muy fácil. Además, nos ayuda a entender lo que pasó. Es muy fácil ver lo que está pasando, tanto en tiempo real como en el momento en que se generan los informes o alertas.

En nuestra organización, los paneles de SecOps son administrados únicamente por personal técnico. Otras personas de la empresa no tienen acceso a él. Pero si se los mostraran a una persona más administrativa o directiva, los entendería porque son fáciles de entender. Le mostré ciertas capturas de pantalla al personal superior y pudieron comprenderlas fácilmente. Con esta herramienta podrás expresarte frente a una persona que no esté involucrada en TI.

Su capacidad para detectar ataques en tiempo real es muy efectiva. Cuenta con una automatización integral porque las firmas se actualizan automáticamente. Además, puede detectar ataques de día cero y posibles ataques que aún no se conocen. Eso también ha sido de gran valor para nosotros.

¿Qué necesita mejorar?

En este momento tenemos DefensePro 6. La única queja que tengo es que la inspección SSL, cuando se activa, consume muchos recursos del equipo. Actualmente estamos revisando un posible cambio en DefensePro X, la nueva versión, que tiene un módulo separado con sus procesadores. Sólo consume el rendimiento de esa tarjeta, no el del resto del equipo. Pero el consumo de recursos de inspección SSL en DefensePro es lo único que diría que se puede mejorar en nuestra versión actual.

¿Durante cuánto tiempo he usado la solución?

Llevo seis años usando Radware DefensePro.

¿Qué pienso sobre la estabilidad de la solución?

Es muy estable. No hemos tenido ningún tipo de inconveniente o anomalía. Siempre arriba, sin problemas de hardware. En todo este tiempo ha estado activo y no hemos tenido ningún problema.

¿Qué pienso sobre la escalabilidad de la solución?

La escalabilidad es muy buena. Siempre podemos agregar otro equipo en nuestro otro centro de datos. Planeamos renovar DefensePro y aumentar nuestro uso para resolver el tráfico SSL.

¿Cómo es el servicio y soporte al cliente?

Su soporte técnico es excelente. Radware siempre responde con lo necesario.

¿Cómo calificaría el servicio y soporte al cliente?

Positivo

¿Qué solución utilicé anteriormente y por qué cambié?

Comenzamos nuestra protección DDoS con DefensePro.

¿Cómo fue la configuración inicial?

La implementación inicial de la solución de Radware fue sencilla. Radware normalmente envía a su equipo para ayudar con la configuración. Nuestra estrategia de implementación implicó un día de configuración, otro de instalación y un tercer día dedicado al seguimiento de la solución. Esta estrategia de tres días es nuestra opción al implementar cualquier plataforma Radware. Nos llevó tres días ponerlo todo en funcionamiento.

En cuanto a la dotación de personal durante la implementación, estuvo presente una persona de Radware, junto con dos miembros de nuestro equipo de TI.

No hay mantenimiento requerido de nosotros.

¿Cuál fue nuestro retorno de la inversión?

El retorno de la inversión para nosotros es saber que nuestros servicios están disponibles. Eso significa que no sufrimos pérdidas financieras ni pérdidas en nuestra reputación. Esos son grandes beneficios.

¿Cuál es mi experiencia con los precios, el costo de instalación y las licencias?

Generalmente firmamos contratos de tres años, lo que nos genera buenos descuentos.

¿Qué otro consejo tengo?

A alguien que quiera optar por la solución más barata, le diría que lo "barato" a menudo acaba saliendo caro. Con Radware contamos con el respaldo de una empresa que se especializa en estos temas y brinda implementación y soporte eficiente. Mi consejo sería no dudar en elegir una empresa o un producto que tenga capacidades excelentes, como Radware, y que tenga detección y mitigación automática de amenazas.

Cuentas con el soporte total de Radware para todo lo relacionado con implementación y soporte. Siempre están muy atentos a sus clientes y a todas las actualizaciones. Tienen un gran soporte técnico. No lo pienses tanto y elige Radware.

DefensePro es una plataforma muy dinámica, muy fácil de gestionar y muy intuitiva. Siempre ha mantenido nuestros servicios en funcionamiento, mitigando todos los ataques de denegación de servicio que hemos tenido. No hemos tenido ningún incidente. Es un excelente producto.

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SB
Senior Product Manager - ICT Solutions, Marketing and Development of Cybersecurity at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We are in the middle of buying the newest DefensePro. We switched to the new technology as the old one is the end of life and end of support. That's why we have to buy a new DefensePro.

It's in our internal infrastructure, so it's in our network. It's not a data center, for example, Amazon, Azure, or Google Cloud.

With this model, it's all one. We would like to extend it in the near future, maybe to be more flexible. I am in the middle of the project and in the middle of how to distinguish protection against DDoS attacks and have Layer 7 and web application firewalls. In our offering, we combined these two areas into one service. One part is DDoS protection against 7th layer DDoS attacks, and the second is web application firewalls. Right now, I would like to work on how to distinguish to maybe separate it. I don't know what it will look like right now.

I’d rate the solution overall an eight out of ten.

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DRGoyal - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Technology at Rah Infotech

We are Radware partners. 

I'd advise potential new users to go with a hybrid mode and move to the cloud. That should be the approach.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

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AliasgarRangwala - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at Check Point Software Technologies

I rate this solution seven out of 10. 

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DRGoyal - PeerSpot reviewer
VP Technology at Rah Infotech

Normally we do not use the latest version of an application, but one version back, which is the case with this product.

This is a solution that I recommend. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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HG
Head Of Operations at Rah Infotech Pvt Ltd

When we talk about the technical features of Radware DefensePro, the outcome is that we recommend it to most of our customers. We always suggest to try and test it before acquiring the product. We always suggest that the customer do the POC.

We value the customer experience of how easy the Radware DefensePro solution is. The product is a great help to them.

When we talk about the different new features required, Radware needs to incorporate a feature for better security alerts.

I would rate this product a 9.5 out of ten overall because it is easy to use and for the performance against internal/external attacks. The response times from the Radware customer support team is very awesome. 

I rate Radware DefensePro with 9.5, but you can easily say that the product deserves a 10.

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John Paredes - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at Corporación Nacional de Telecomunicaciones

We use about 10 engineers for the deployment and maintenance of this product.

It's very important for us to have well-analyzed and protected traffic within our network, that's why we use this solution.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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SB
Senior Product Manager - ICT Solutions, Marketing and Development of Cybersecurity at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use the on-premises deployment model.

It's a very, very good solution. I would recommend it to others.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

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FB
Director Of Infrastructure at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

I know for a fact that Radware DefensePro worked. We tested it over all those years. We tested to make sure that it's operational and that it works. It was a very good product, but it just no longer fit our needs and what we were looking for. At least not that I know of because they would never give us what we asked for. As I said, back to that customer support issue. We asked for it, I know that the company does what we ask, but they would not offer it to us. Instead, they kept trying to offer us things we weren't asking for.

My advice for anybody who is looking at this product is to make sure that they get what they are looking for because they wouldn't listen to what we wanted. I spent a solid year trying to stay with them, but they wouldn't listen. They would come back every two or three months with new offers and it was just crazy. It wasn't what we wanted.

The biggest lesson than I have learned from using this product is to stay on top of your solution provider to make sure that they're providing what you need.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

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RaynielBadiola - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Secur Links

This is a great product for any organization looking to be protected from cyber attacks or hackers.

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MM
Network Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

We are users of the solution.

We've been mostly very happy with the product. I would rate it at a nine out of ten. They just need better implementation and to work together with Cisco for faster and better results.

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MA
Information Systems Management Specialist at Mission Control NOC and Helpdesk Services

The reporting provides us with a lot of interesting and rich data. It allows us to have total control over what is being protected.

When I first started using this solution, I wondered why it was that the DDoS protection could not be coupled with other edge protection features that I have on my firewall. I questioned why it was that I couldn't have all of the protection in a single box. However, I now realize why it is, from a strategic perspective, and it just makes more sense to have DDoS in its own box.

The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this solution is that you can't assume that everything is right unless you have insight as to what is currently going on within your infrastructure. You can't just relax and think that everything is okay. It is not a good policy to assume that customers are simply complaining about the services and their experience for the sake of complaining. Rather, consider that something is not right and look into it. This begins with getting the proper solutions in place.

Overall, I'm happy with this solution and what it has offered so far. The suitability of using DefensePro depends on your budget and your requirements. My advice is to make sure that you have your requirements right and then compare against the other products that are out there. I tend to believe that this solution is fit for all institutions and in my opinion, anyone who implements this will not regret it because it will serve them well.

While this solution has worked well, I can't say it is perfect because there might be requirements out there that I am unfamiliar with and are not currently being met.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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VL
Implementation Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. It's easy to deploy and efficient for protecting us from attacks. It is fast for processing positives, even on multiple platforms. You need just a few minutes to set up the standard product and maybe one-hour maximum to do something more complicated. 

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it_user740568 - PeerSpot reviewer
SolArch2098 at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would recommend this product.

It's a straightforward, simple installation. I don't see any complexity in doing it. Even a person with a basic understanding of how a Radware platform works will be able to do it.

In case of any challenges in terms of deployment, upgrades, or in change management, the technical support is there to help us. They do miss out in terms of the cloud-based approach.

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it_user628056 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Solutions Representative at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Let sales engineering guide you through the reasons to use this product. They will be honest if it is the right solution for you.

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LM
Senior Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I haven't spent a good amount of time with the solution or with implementations just yet. From what I have seen, I would rate it eight out of ten. The main downside is that it is expensive.

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SC
Security Specialist at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

We are just a customer and end-user. We don't have a business relationship with Radware.

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're currently using.

I'm not sure if we intend to switch products. In the future, that will depend on if there are any new functions or features, or if the price of a new product is better.

In general, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've been satisfied with the solution and its capabilities for the most part.

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OS
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are using the private cloud deployment model.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

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