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Radware Cloud WAF Service pros and cons

Vendor: Radware
4.4 out of 5

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PROS

Radware Cloud WAF Service offers excellent protection against external threats, including DDoS attacks and botnet networks, significantly reducing the load on backend servers.
Its API Discovery and protection features help identify and mitigate advanced attacks, providing a comprehensive security solution beyond traditional WAF capabilities.
Radware Cloud WAF Service is praised for its reliable protection against zero-day threats and emerging attacks, enhancing system stability and reducing incidents.
Customers appreciate the remarkable ease of maintenance and automation, which free up resources and prevent server overload by blocking malicious requests efficiently.
The combination of WAF, bot management, API security, and AI-driven threat signatures in Radware Cloud WAF Service makes it a highly recommended, comprehensive security offering.

CONS

Radware Cloud WAF Service faces challenges with API integration and documentation, needing more detailed articles covering API usage, rate limiting, CNAME, and DDoS functions.
The reporting on DDoS attacks can be improved, especially for Layer 3 and Layer 4 attacks, which would benefit from more detailed and intuitive reporting features.
Users must contact Radware support to block IPs flagged by security tools, which can take several hours; a self-service option would be more efficient.
Radware's bot manager is complex to implement, especially for apps, and lacks alert options like WhatsApp or Telegram, currently limited to email or SMS.
SSL certificate renewal and provisioning for hosting customers is an area needing attention to ensure secure HTTPS connections.
 

Radware Cloud WAF Service Pros review quotes

reviewer2102988 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 5, 2024
What makes this a comprehensive offering from Radware is that it combines WAF, ADA, bot management, and API protection, which is not currently available from any other provider in the market.
reviewer1579545 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 23, 2023
From a financial point of view, we no longer need to appropriate more horsepower to our backend web servers constantly to service these requests because Cloud WAF is preventing malicious bots from accessing our web page. It reduced the load on our backend.
reviewer2165241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 21, 2023
With the current visibility dashboard, we can now obtain insight into the nature of attacks, identify attackers, and detect top IP or threat regions.
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reviewer2157408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 13, 2023
DDoS protection is a valuable feature that works efficiently.
Eddy Ramirez - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 24, 2023
The isolation feature is the most important one because everything is going directly to Radware first and then it goes into our system. What we get is the filtered version of everything that would otherwise come directly to us.
YE
Apr 16, 2023
The API Discovery is also very good because the application is outsourced, which means that we don't have the code. API Discovery allowed me to discover precisely how to orchestrate the API so that I could see the results.
AA
Jun 18, 2025
It has features such as API security that protect against advanced attacks, including business logic attacks. It comes with additional functionalities such as bot protection and AI-driven threat signatures, along with threat intelligence, making it much more than the traditional WAF that we have on-prem.
Werner Lunow - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 2, 2023
Cloud WAF's interface is easy to use and protects us from OWASP Top Ten threats. Our dev team do QA checks on applications before they go live, but Cloud WAF creates an additional security layer on our website.
reviewer2186772 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 17, 2023
Radware Cloud WAF Service is user-friendly and easy to deploy.
reviewer2101911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 14, 2023
It provides the first level of defense against external threats trying to come into the environment, but it's one of the many toolkits we use.
 

Radware Cloud WAF Service Cons review quotes

reviewer2102988 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 5, 2024
The lower-level technical team at Radware could improve their approach to problem-solving as they sometimes are very slow.
reviewer1579545 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 23, 2023
Our only complaint is the reporting on the DDoS side. We also use Radware for on-premises DDoS protection and their Vision product. I just want to give paint you an example. We face so many Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS attacks on Cloud WAF. The reporting on those types of attacks can be improved.
reviewer2165241 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 21, 2023
Radware Cloud WAF Service has limited integrations, and I would like to see it integrate with our use of Azure DevOps.
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reviewer2157408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 13, 2023
We've had some issues with putting certificates in.
Eddy Ramirez - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 24, 2023
The implementation was hit or miss for the first few months. They did some tweaking and, since then, there have been no problems.
YE
Apr 16, 2023
They have a portal for webinar training but because we are in a Spanish-speaking country, it is difficult for us to watch them. Not all of us are fluent in English, but most of the courses and webinars are in English. That part could be improved...
AA
Jun 18, 2025
The dashboard of Radware Cloud WAF Service has room for improvement. While it works effectively, it can feel complex and might need some initial guidance, but once users become familiar with it, the operation becomes smooth.
Werner Lunow - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 2, 2023
They've changed their process for call logging. I suppose it's fine, but I used to be able to send emails in. They could also build up more local resiliency here in South Africa. They're working on that, so it isn't much of an issue now.
reviewer2186772 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 17, 2023
Radware Cloud WAF Service should provide SSL certificates for its hosting customers.
reviewer2101911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 14, 2023
There is a lot more that is expected from Radware's automated analytics for looking at events. There needs to be more context of where protection is required these days.