Skip to content

Cloudflare vs ModSecurity

A side-by-side look at Cloudflare and ModSecurity. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Cloudflare

Cloudflare

Security & Privacy

Cloudflare is a content delivery network and DDoS protection service that aims to make websites faster and more secure. It acts as a reverse proxy, sitting between visitors and a website's server to cache static assets, apply security filters, and distribute traffic globally.

cdnddos-protectionreverse-proxycachingweb-performance
ModSecurity

ModSecurity

Security & Privacy

ModSecurity is an open source web application firewall that provides protection against common web attacks like XSS, SQLi, RFI, etc. It works by intercepting and inspecting all HTTP traffic between a web app and clients.

web-securityxss-protectionsql-injection-protectionopen-source