What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
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98 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+95 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Cloudflare?
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Security Protects
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Enablement for Security Teams
Network Sandboxes
Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)
Zero Trust
Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
SD-WAN
Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS
Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
Data Analytics / BI / AI
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Implementation
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Ease of Customization
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Cloudflare Reviews
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Retail
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Sep 2024
Easy to get started with a deep learning curve
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Saves Time
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
- Under Delivered
Wally W.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Agriculture
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jul 2024
Very happy with this product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?
Ease of use
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
DNS filtering
What do you dislike most about this product?
Not sure any dislike鈥檚.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Learning curve.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Effective Service
- Fair
- Continually Improving Product
Cons
- Less Efficient Service
- Wastes Time
- Less Reliable
Andy H.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2024
Fortifying Your Digital Frontline
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?
Cloudflare's unified SASE platform truly shines by converging numerous security capabilities into one cloud-native solution. Core offerings like secure web gateways, firewalls-as-a-service, cloud access security brokers, and zero trust network access are seamlessly orchestrated. This cohesive approach streamlines security administration and ensures consistent policies regardless of resource location.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability to enforce zero trust access aligned with the principle of least privilege is a game-changer. By verifying user identity, device posture, and other contextual attributes before granting access, the risks of unauthorized lateral movement and data exfiltration plummet. Granular policy controls also enable precise micro segmentation of corporate resources.
What do you dislike most about this product?
While the cloud-delivered architecture reduces infrastructure overhead, it could potentially introduce latency depending on an organization's geographic distribution and remote user populations. Further, some regulated industries may require an on-premises version to address data residency requirements.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I've witnessed the challenges IT teams face as threat vectors multiply. Cloudflare's SASE offering finally unites critical security functions organizations often deploy in piecemeal fashion under one intuitive console. Its browser isolation capabilities are also ingenious, creating disposable virtual machines that isolate untrusted web sessions from endpoints. Whether securing software-defined wide area networks or safeguarding software-as-a-service app access, this solution provides multi-layered defenses precisely mapped to modern risk profiles.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
