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Radware Cloud WAF Service pros and cons

Vendor: Radware

4.4 out of 5

52 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Radware Cloud WAF Service offers robust protection by filtering all traffic, blocking OWASP Top Ten threats, and mitigating zero-day and advanced attacks. It includes features like WAF, API security, bot management, and Layer 7 DDoS protection. However, integration in complex environments and reporting features need enhancement. Delays in DDoS alert messages can impact response times, and automated analytics require refinement to better identify genuine threats.

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PROS

Radware Cloud WAF Service provides comprehensive protection against external threats, offering a robust first line of defense.

It has greatly reduced the load on backend systems by preventing malicious bots, resulting in improved financial efficiency.

Geo-blocking is a highly valuable feature, allowing users to block unnecessary traffic from certain regions effectively.

User feedback highlights the important monitoring and visibility into attacks, aiding in proactive threat management.

The service has enhanced organizational efficiency and security, particularly through its capabilities in blocking unknown threats and protecting against zero-day attacks.

CONS

Radware Cloud WAF Service needs to improve in issue detection and understanding whether a log is a false positive.

The reporting on DDoS attacks can be enhanced, especially for Layer 3 and Layer 4 attacks.

Radware Cloud WAF Service lacks sufficient online training resources, especially for non-English speakers.

Radware Cloud WAF Service needs better API integration and documentation, including details on API usage and rate limiting.

There are delays in alert messages for DDoS attacks, causing a lag in response time.

Radware Cloud WAF Service Pros review quotes

reviewer2102988

EVP, Chief Digital officer and head of Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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.

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reviewer1579545

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

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.

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reviewer2165241

Cloud Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

Network Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 13, 2023

DDoS protection is a valuable feature that works efficiently.

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IT Security Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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Security Operations Engineer at Nokia Corporation

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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Yolanda Estrada

Consultor with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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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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CISO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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reviewer2186772

System Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 17, 2023

Radware Cloud WAF Service is user-friendly and easy to deploy.

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Radware Cloud WAF Service Cons review quotes

reviewer2102988

EVP, Chief Digital officer and head of Cybersecurity at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Nov 5, 2024

The lower-level technical team at Radware could improve their approach to problem-solving as they sometimes are very slow.

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reviewer1579545

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

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.

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reviewer2165241

Cloud Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

Network Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 13, 2023

We've had some issues with putting certificates in.

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IT Security Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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Security Operations Engineer at Nokia Corporation

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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Yolanda Estrada

Consultor with 501-1,000 employees

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...

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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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CISO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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reviewer2186772

System Administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 17, 2023

Radware Cloud WAF Service should provide SSL certificates for its hosting customers.

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