Symantec Web Application Firewall Reviews

Name: Symantec Web Application Firewall
Brand: Broadcom
Rating: 4.2 (3 reviews)

Vendor: Broadcom

4.2 out of 5

3 reviews
75% willing to recommend

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What is Symantec Web Application Firewall?

The Symantec Web Application Firewall (WAF) enables you to secure and accelerate your web applications.

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Symantec Web Application Firewall is the #40 ranked solution in top Web Application Firewalls. PeerSpot users give Symantec Web Application Firewall an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Symantec Web Application Firewall is most commonly compared to Fortinet FortiWeb: Symantec Web Application Firewall vs Fortinet FortiWeb.

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reviewer1231533

Head IT Infrastructure (DGM-IT) at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We have multiple applications that we wanted to ensure were protected and we chose Symantec for that. I'm the head of IT infrastructure and we are partners with Symantec. Symantec has specifically helped connect external users to our internal network. It has also enabled us to ensure that those…

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Jean-Pol_Tamenne

Networking and Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The performance is ok and overall, I'm really pleased The interface is user-friendly. There are a lot of features in this product. The dashboard is dependent on Java so you need to have it installed. If there are different versions of Java then it can cause problems. It would be an improvement if…

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it_user1218156

Technical Architect at Dimension Data

I would say that the whole Web Security Gateway can be better. I feel that it controls the endpoint. But I am not sure if any improvement is necessary on the actual Web Security Gateway installed, which is meant to be beneficial, because maybe the problem lies at our endpoint.

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Symantec Web Application Firewall mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of Symantec Web Application Firewall in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category stands at 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The interface is user-friendly."

Room for Improvement

"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."

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