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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 effectively reduces bandwidth costs by blocking malicious traffic, enhancing backend performance.
Its DDoS protection is advanced, efficiently managing attacks and ensuring network security.
The threat intelligence features provide early notifications, offering robust protection against zero-day attacks.
Radware Cloud WAF Service integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure, enhancing security and reliability.
Geo-blocking capabilities allow for region-specific access control, improving the overall security posture.

CONS

Radware Cloud WAF Service's reporting on DDoS attacks and real-time monitoring needs improvement for better decision making.
API integration and documentation with Radware Cloud WAF Service require enhancement with more detailed information on API usage, rate limiting, and DDoS functions.
Radware Cloud WAF Service has high costs, which restricts its accessibility for many users.
Radware Cloud WAF Service's customer support needs to improve beyond pre-packaged responses to enhance problem-solving speed.
Radware Cloud WAF Service should allow users to upload files with IPs for quicker self-service blocking without waiting for support.
 

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.
Pankaj Kaushik - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
BT
Experto de Seguridad Informática at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Mar 25, 2026
Radware Cloud WAF Service has positively impacted my organization by providing peace of mind for the team and regulatory compliance, since having the application properly protected meets our banking field requirements.
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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.
Tushar Makwana - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Engineer at Adani Enterprises Ltd
Sep 10, 2025
The features I find best about Radware Cloud WAF Service are its user-friendly GUI and the smooth deployment or onboarding process, and 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.
Pranav-Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer2663061 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
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.
AA
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.
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.
 

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.
Pankaj Kaushik - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
BT
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 possibly offering greater availability in Spanish for support, as generally there are English-speaking engineers, which might represent a challenge for some people.
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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.
Tushar Makwana - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Pranav-Patel - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
reviewer2663061 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
KP
SOC Analyst at Adani Enterprises Ltd
Sep 8, 2025
The dashboard needs improvement as some users find it complex.
AA
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.
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.