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Radware Cloud WAF Service pros and cons

Vendor: Radware

4.4 out of 5

66 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Radware Cloud WAF Service reduces backend load by blocking malicious bots and offers DDoS protection, ensuring stable application performance. It provides real-time protection against zero-day threats with advanced behavioral pattern analysis but faces challenges in reporting and API documentation. Customization in reporting is limited, requiring support for IP blocking actions. Improvement is needed in Spanish-language support and documentation to enhance usability for a broader audience.

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PROS

Radware Cloud WAF Service reduces backend load by preventing malicious bots, significantly decreasing bandwidth costs by blocking attack traffic.

It provides robust protection against zero-day attacks and uses threat intelligence to notify and resolve emerging threats.

The service offers DDoS protection, efficiently managing large-scale attacks and ensuring application performance remains stable.

Radware Cloud WAF Service excels in behavioral pattern analysis, blocking almost 99% of threats with IP-based and country-based blocking.

It is highly reliable, requiring minimal maintenance, and includes real-time protection, enhancing security posture for organizations.

CONS

Reporting on DDoS attacks in Cloud WAF can be improved, especially for Layer 3 and Layer 4 attacks.

API integration and documentation require enhancement, including more detailed usage guidelines for API functions.

There are restrictions in Radware Cloud WAF Service's abilities to block IPs, requiring users to contact support for such actions.

Customization options for reporting are limited, lacking the ability to create tailored reports.

Support and documentation in Spanish are needed as the current availability is mainly in English.

Radware Cloud WAF Service Pros review quotes

AT

SOC Analyst at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Sep 11, 2025

Radware Cloud WAF Service's ability to protect against zero-day attacks is very good; the threat intelligence feature is excellent in the WAF and helps us protect against zero-day threats significantly, notifying us as early as possible and helping us get it resolved.

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Btejedor Tejedor

Experto de Seguridad Informática at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 25, 2026

Radware Cloud WAF Service positively impacts my organization by providing peace of mind for the team and ensuring regulatory compliance, as having the necessary tools enhances security posture.

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Security Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Sep 5, 2025

Radware Cloud WAF Service's Web DDoS protection, HTTP L7, has significantly helped us protect our customer networks, mitigating all types of web attacks and ensuring no fluctuations or leaks even when large numbers of malicious bot IPs are attacking our network.

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VM

Associate Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 5, 2025

A favorite feature of the Radware Cloud WAF Service is the OWASP Top 10; this is the basic feature, and they are getting into AI, which makes it quite smart.

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IT Security Engineer at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Sep 10, 2025

The dashboard allows me to see trends weekly, monthly, and daily for this particular application, enabling me to take action if I want to allow or block specific IPs or traffic.

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IT Manager at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Sep 3, 2025

Radware Cloud WAF Service is great in terms of blocking unknown threats and attacks; everything seems perfect to me, and I have no complaints or issues regarding the blocking capability.

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Program Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 25, 2026

We are achieving six to seven ms latency, so we are very much happy with the performance and the solution uses.

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KP

SOC Analyst at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Sep 8, 2025

Radware Cloud WAF Service is a ten out of ten for blocking unknown threats and attacks, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze traffic, detect anomalies, and automate responses to cyber threats in real time.

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Augustine Abule

Application Supervisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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JZ

Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 11, 2025

The features I find most valuable about Radware Cloud WAF Service are primarily rate-limiting, geo-blocking, web DDoS protection, and some other basic features.

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Radware Cloud WAF Service Cons review quotes

AT

SOC Analyst at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Sep 11, 2025

In Radware Cloud WAF Service, the areas that have room for improvement include customization and personalized integration, as we faced multiple issues with those aspects during our deployment.

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Btejedor Tejedor

Experto de Seguridad Informática at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mar 25, 2026

Radware Cloud WAF Service could improve by having greater availability in Spanish for support, as generally there are English-speaking engineers, which may be a challenge for some people.

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Security Operations Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Sep 5, 2025

The integration part of the Radware Cloud WAF Service is complex. Being a security operation engineer or a SOC engineer, managing complex devices can prove challenging.

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VM

Associate Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 5, 2025

Regarding zero-day protection, it takes considerable time to update signatures in the Radware Cloud WAF Service.

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IT Security Engineer at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Sep 10, 2025

I'm not sure about how much historical traffic data we can access. Knowing the ability to view traffic from six months back would be beneficial for audit and compliance purposes, especially if an attack happens on an application.

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IT Manager at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Sep 3, 2025

Radware Cloud WAF Service has drawbacks when compared to other WAF solutions, particularly because we were checking other solutions that support custom ports for application onboarding.

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reviewer2663061

Program Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Feb 25, 2026

In the starting mode, API Discovery was a little bit challenging for us, but after utilization and after day-to-day uses, we are stable and able to tackle the solution.

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KP

SOC Analyst at Adani Enterprises Ltd

Sep 8, 2025

The dashboard needs improvement as some users find it complex.

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AA

Augustine Abule

Application Supervisor at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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JZ

Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 11, 2025

Additionally, alert messages for DDoS attacks or other things take time to reach us, causing delays in our response.

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