VC

vladimir C.

Infrastructure Security analist

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/12/2025

"How to have a guard partner who never gets tired"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Radware Cloud WAF?

Okay, I'll tell you how I really think about it, without so much report formatting.

If I had to choose one thing that "enchants" me about this tool, it would be the automatic policy generation. Anyone who has suffered through the first weeks of a new WAF knows what I'm talking about: that eternal period in "learning" mode where every poorly calibrated rule crashes your production checkout at 2am, and you end up glued to the logs for fear of breaking something. That the system detects new apps on its own and creates rules without me having to sit down and define every exception... that takes years off my life. It's the difference between "tool I manage" and "tool that helps me manage."

And the single portal hits me hard too, but for a more emotional than technical reason: I've lived the nightmare of reconstructing an incident by jumping between three different consoles, trying to piece together the timeline with logs that don't speak the same language. When you're under pressure, with people asking "have we controlled it yet?", the last thing you need is to be doing control-C control-V between tabs. Having everything — WAF, bots, DDoS, API — in one place with decent logs is, honestly, more of a relief than a feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Radware Cloud WAF?

that to block an IP you have to call support and wait for hours. That breaks my trust a little. It's like buying a car with excellent brakes but having to call the dealership to activate them. In security, minutes count, and delegating the quick reaction to an external third party would make me nervous if there isn't something automatic as a backup for obvious cases.

The complicated bot manager also sounds to me like those tools that promise a lot in the demo and then, in the real implementation, you end up fighting with configurations that no one documented well. And that alerts only arrive by email or SMS in 2026 feels kind of outdated — I already live glued to Slack or Teams, not my inbox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Radware Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?

Radware Cloud WAF takes away the three things that most wear out anyone in security: always running after the new, always running after the attacker, and having to piece together the puzzle by hand when something goes wrong.

It takes care of protecting what is launched on its own, learns from attacks instead of waiting for me to teach it, and puts everything — WAF, bots, API, DDoS — in one place so that in the middle of a crisis I'm not jumping between screens like crazy.

And watch out, what affects me the most is not the technical aspect, it's what it gives back to me: time, peaceful sleep, and ready evidence for when someone asks "does this really protect us?" That last part matters more than it seems — when security can show clear results, it stops feeling like an expense and starts feeling like an ally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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