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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ClickGuard

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    ClickGUARD is a fully automated protection tool that enables businesses to run secure pay-per-click campaigns. The software can eliminate unwanted clicks on your PPC ads, help to clean up your traffic, and optimize your budget for your target audience.

    $89

    per month

    F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (formerly Shape Defense, acquired January 2020) provides security to protect a website from bots, fake users, and unauthorized transactions, preventing large scale fraud and eroded user experiences. Companies get visibility, detection and mitigation outcomes to reduce fraud and cloud hosting, bandwidth and compute costs, improve user experiences, and optimize their business based on real human traffic.N/A
    Pricing
    ClickGuardF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    starts at $89
    per month
    Standard
    starts at $149
    per month
    Pro
    starts at $199
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ClickGuardF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing. Custom plan available.—
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    ClickGuardF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    8.5
    (42 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (6 ratings)
    8.6
    (42 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (30 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ClickGuardF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ClickGUARD
    ClickGAURD is highly suitable for detecting and preventing fraudulent clicks and helps generate higher revenues with the same marketing budgets. The reports created by ClickGUARD are also very helpful in understanding the impact and returns on the campaigns. It also helps identifies the geographies from where the fraudulent clicks are coming to help us take preventive measures. Having detailed documentation to get it deployed and get users onboarded quickly will be very helpful.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    I'd strongly recommend it, but with a few caveats depending on how mature the team is with behavioral based security tools. One of our fintech clients was getting hit with low volume, widely spread login attempts, below our rate limiting thresholds. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense was able to flag abnormal input timings, inconsistent device fingerprinting and high entropy in field population behavior. You can only imagine the wave of downstream account lockouts this saved the client. On the other end we had a client with a real time trading platform using Graphql over websockets. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense wasn't able to tap into that stream natively. we had to reverse engineer a proxy layer to inspect events. It worked but it was clunky and not officially supported
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    ClickGUARD
    • The real-time notifications are one of the best features of ClickGUARD for me.
    • Automatic malicious click deflection is also a feature that I appreciate.
    • There have been instances where a large number of clicks were made, but the resulting conversions were much below expectations.
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    F5
    • Quickly helps mitigate the retooling and newer advanced bot attacks
    • Excellent customer service from our f5 bot Defense team/partners
    • Easy to do Traffic Analysis/False Positive reviews with their dashboard of data
    • Our F5 Security/Solutions Architect and TAM is always there for us whenever we need them
    • First class service by the F5 Distributed Cloud Bot DefenseSOC, the Tactics Team, the F5 Testing person that helps us, the mobile SDK experts, the Client-Side Signals experts and F5 management
    • Industry best Threat Briefings
    • Not only is F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense great at stopping the advanced bot attacks, they also have protection against any tampering or replay attacks.
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    Cons
    ClickGUARD
    • The one thing I've noticed that I believe is a disadvantage would have to be the lack of support on weekends or holidays which is understandable but at the same time, I'm sure people expect to still be supported right around the clock if that is what is advertised.
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    F5
    • On a technical side, we've had a lot of deployment issues. This is not a one-sprint solution.
    • We ran into undocumented failure modes and had to rely on L2 and L3 customer support, delaying troubleshooting significantly [in our experience].
    • Accurate log ingestion is a larger challenge than one would want in a security tool.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ClickGUARD
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    We are more likely than not, to renew it. It saved us from a really huge data breach 4 months ago. It has earned its shower so far
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    ClickGUARD
    I actually haven't found the need to use their customer support as yet but I'm sure that they are knowledgable and would assist any way they can.
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    F5
    Official support can sometimes take time to reach the right people. However, once you are in contact with the appropriate experts, the support is excellent, as F5 staff are true specialists. On the other hand, we always receive prompt assistance from our local sales team, who typically help us connect with the right people quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    ClickGUARD
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Implementation of Distributed Cloud is accomplished a few different ways, it would pay to meet with the F5 team and map out your implementation prior to acquisition to make sure you Infrastructure and Operations teams are aligned to the approach and requirements.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    ClickGUARD
    formerly know as PPC Protect, now known as Lunio. we side by side user lunio as well and only problem with lunio was pricing. no doubt lunio has better feature set to stack against ClickGaurd but we didn't required that many features to begin with. ClickGaurd is simple solution for us and we are planning to explore it full before moving to any other platform
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    F5
    Clodflare bot management was our other obvious option for us. We tested it on a staging version of our RFQ platform. It was great for broad traffic filtering but had a hard time with nuanced differences between real subcontractors and low volume bots mimickingt human input whereas that's where F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense thrived
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    ClickGUARD
    • Prior to acquiring Clickguard, I wasn't even able to trust the numbers I was seeing and my money was being wasted. Since getting this app, there has been a total turn around in conversions, and sales have increased.
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    F5
    • F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense has helped our customers identify real human traffic and bot traffic, allowing them to prioritize real traffic to applications and improve cloud service usage.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense ha ayudado a nuestros clientes a poder identificar cuál es el tráfico real de personas y cual el de Bot para así poder priorizar el tráfico real hacia las aplicaciones mejorando los consumos de servicios en nube.
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    ScreenShots

    ClickGuard Screenshots

    Screenshot of where to add and manage multiple ad accounts with different protection plans.Screenshot of a bot probability assessment, which is available with every click.Screenshot of clicks tested for behavior (e.g. time spent on site, click speed) and non-behavior criteria (location, IP address, packet header details).Screenshot of reports that can be automated and scheduled for teams or clients.Screenshot of where every single click is assessed and verified whether it is blocked or not.Screenshot of the interface to toggle ON/OFF protection.