We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Wiz based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Cloudflare provides Zero Trustability, load balancing, and DDoS protection, as well as automatic SSL certificate protection and a user-friendly GUI. On the other hand, Wiz prioritizes context and risk prioritization with its Security Graph, which allows for custom reports and pinpointing vulnerabilities. Cloudflare has room for improvement in terms of reporting and support response time, as well as providing more servers for better traffic routing and easier log collection. On the other hand, Wiz needs preventive controls, refined reporting, customizable dashboards, and improved risk assessment.
Service and Support: Cloudflare's technical support could be improved for lower-tier plans, while Wiz's customer service is highly praised with excellent technical support and knowledgeable CSMs. Users rate Wiz's customer support very highly with scores of nine or ten out of ten.
Ease of Deployment: Cloudflare's process is generally quick and stress-free, but may take longer if a lot of equipment is needed. Wiz's deployment was done in partnership with the company and only took a few hours, and was spread across multiple public clouds.
Pricing: Cloudflare has a premium pricing model that ranges from free to $1,500 per month, which is considered expensive by some users. They offer unlimited bandwidth, but some enterprise customers would prefer a custom pricing model. On the other hand, Wiz has fair and simple pricing that is on the higher end of the market. They have specific features for easy selection, but some users are concerned about potential price increases and lack of transparency.
ROI: Cloudflare and Wiz are two tools that have been positively reviewed for their ROI. Cloudflare focuses on website protection and preventing server overload, while Wiz assists with asset management, identifying vulnerabilities, and compliance.
Comparison Results: Wiz is the preferred choice for cloud-based businesses over Cloudflare because of its ability to provide context and prioritize risks in the cloud environment, as well as its combination of cloud security posture management, threat intelligence, and risk prioritization. Cloudflare offers good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks, but Wiz's focus on cloud security and risk prioritization makes it the better option.
"The solution is very good at mitigating threats."
"It's very user-friendly."
"Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications."
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"The UI is good."
"I like Cloudflare's application gateway and DDoS protection."
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."
"We're facing challenges due to an upgrade in the machine learning model. The problem arises from some users abusing the APIs, resulting in an influx of suspicious traffic. Cloudflare's learning model mistakenly identifies this traffic as human. Consequently, it assigns it a higher trust score, akin to legitimate human traffic, causing complications in our architecture. Previously, such traffic would have been categorized as suspicious, enabling us to apply appropriate blocking rules. However, we encounter difficulties distinguishing between genuine and suspicious traffic with the new categorization. Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor."
"If they improve on the placement of their data centers, it would be better. I'm living in a remote area. I would like to connect to them without any kind of lag."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript."
"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"One significant issue is that the searches are case-sensitive, so finding a misconfigured resource can become very challenging."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
Cloudflare is ranked 11th in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 56 reviews while Wiz is ranked 2nd in Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with 11 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Wiz is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wiz writes "Multiple features help us prioritize remediation, and agentless implementation reduces overhead". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Wiz is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Orca Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, AWS Security Hub and Lacework. See our Cloudflare vs. Wiz report.
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