Automatic Scalability
Scales infrastructure up and down as needed to handle incoming requests to prevent outages during a DDoS attack.
Cat avg: 9.4
Top Performing Features
Global threat intelligence
Uses threat intelligence data to block known attack patterns or malicious IPs.
Cat avg: 8.8
Mitigation SLA
The speed at which the tool starts mitigating a DDoS attack.
Cat avg: 8.8
WAF capabilities
Offers a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect against attacks at the application layer.
Cat avg: 8.6
Worst Performing Features
Traffic filtering
Identifying and blocking malicious traffic without impacting legitimate traffic.
Cat avg: 7.6
Request rate limiting
Ability to restrict the number of requests per source to slow down or prevent attackers from overwhelming the system.
Cat avg: 7.8
Real-time analytics and reporting
Provides up-to-date network performance reporting and dashboards, allowing organizations to monitor potential attacks in real-time.
Cat avg: 7.8
Cloudflare Features from Reviews
DDoS Protection
These are common features of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection solutions, intended to prevent, detect, and mitigate DDoS attacks.
8.40%
Automatic Scalability
Scales infrastructure up and down as needed to handle incoming requests to prevent outages during a DDoS attack.
Category average: 9.4
Mitigation SLA
The speed at which the tool starts mitigating a DDoS attack.
Category average: 8.8
Security policy management
Flexibility to set specific rules and policies, ex; blacklisting and whitelisting specific IP addresses or Bots.
Category average: 8.6
WAF capabilities
Offers a Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect against attacks at the application layer.
Category average: 8.6
Request rate limiting
Ability to restrict the number of requests per source to slow down or prevent attackers from overwhelming the system.
Category average: 7.8
Traffic filtering
Identifying and blocking malicious traffic without impacting legitimate traffic.
Category average: 7.6
Bot detection
Distinguishing between bots and humans, potentially through device fingerprinting, CAPTCHA.
Category average: 8
Global threat intelligence
Uses threat intelligence data to block known attack patterns or malicious IPs.
Category average: 8.8
Real-time analytics and reporting
Provides up-to-date network performance reporting and dashboards, allowing organizations to monitor potential attacks in real-time.
Category average: 7.8