Radware Alteon vs Radware Cloud WAF Service comparison

Alteon is Radware’s application delivery and security platform for delivering and protecting applications across physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments. Available as hardware, virtual appliances cloud deployment, Alteon provides local, global server and link load balancing, advanced traffic management, SSL/TLS offload and acceleration, automation, and application optimization, including HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 support.

Through Alteon Protect, organizations can combine Alteon application delivery and on-device security with Radware Cloud Application Protection services, including web application and API protection, bot management, and web DDoS protection. This provides a unified application delivery and security approach across data center and cloud environments.

Alteon supports flexible capacity and deployment through Global Elastic Licensing (GEL), which enables licensed capacity to be allocated and reallocated across supported Alteon deployments as application and infrastructure requirements change.

The platform also supports modern automation and AI-assisted operations. Alteon MCP Server enables application, DevOps, and platform teams to use natural-language intent through an MCP-compatible AI client to create supported Alteon configurations using a guided workflow that gathers required parameters, validates configuration state, and maintains human review and approval before changes are applied. Alteon also supports lifecycle automation and integration through REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes/cloud-native environments.

Together, these capabilities enable organizations to deliver, scale, automate, and protect applications consistently across data centers, private clouds, public clouds, and hybrid environments.

Alteon supports flexible perpetual and subscription-based licensing models.  Physical appliance pricing is based on the selected Alteon hardware platform and enabled performance/capacity, while virtual and cloud deployments can be licensed according to the required capacity as a subscription. Global Elastic Licensing (GEL) provides additional flexibility by allowing licensed capacity to be allocated and redistributed across supported Alteon physical, virtual, and cloud deployments rather than tying all capacity permanently to an individual instance.

Customers can also purchase application delivery together with cloud-delivered application protection through Alteon Protect, providing a combined subscription model for Alteon application delivery and Radware Cloud Application Protection capabilities.

Radware Cloud Application Protection Services is a cloud-delivered service that protects web applications and APIs across all environments against any type of application layer attack. It includes an advanced WAF, bot and AI agent trust management, account takeover protection, API security, DDoS protection, LLM firewall, vulnerability management, threat intelligence, and client-side protection. It uses AI-driven behavioral analysis to distinguish legitimate from malicious traffic and automatically adapt security policies, protecting against known vectors such as the OWASP Top 10, API Top 10, Top 21 automated threats, LLM Top 10, and more, as well as business logic attacks and supply chain attacks on the client side. The service is delivered through a global network of points of presence and scrubbing centers, using a proprietary API-based architecture that also allows for deployment without DNS changes, traffic rerouting, or SSL key sharing. It supports on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments, helps organizations comply with standards such as PCI DSS 4, NIS2, GDPR, HIPAA, and DORA, and includes threat intelligence and 24x7 managed security support.

Radware Cloud Application Protection Services are offered through a subscription-based pricing model, with fees determined by selected service tiers and specific application coverage required by the client. The service is structured to provide different levels of protection and features, and cost is typically based on factors such as the number of applications, bandwidth usage, and specific security functionalities included in the chosen package.