F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall vs. Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Advanced WAF
Score 9.3 out of 10
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F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.N/A
Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Fastly Secure (based on Signal Sciences, acquired December 2020), offers a WAF and RASP solution that protects over 34,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ architecture is designed to provide organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility. Additionally, Signal Sciences integrated BotSense service prevents bad bots from performing malicious actions against their…N/A
Pricing
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
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F5 Advanced WAFFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(10 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
Advanced WAF is well suited for protection against account enumeration attacks, protection against known and new increasing attack vectors through out of the box attack signatures and threat campaigns. Also, up to date and accurate IP intelligence database to block based on known IP reputation.
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Fastly
Fastly has been the ideal CDN (Content Distribution Network) to solve and optimise the management of our content in our applications and portals; we have easily integrated its use, which has meant an increase in performance, a time savings in terms of management, and a saving of resources that we can use to make further improvements to improve our customers' web experience.
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Pros
F5
  • So the product definitely is helping us for sudden attacks through DDOS, some injection ingestion into UI URLs, and definitely it's capturing those and I definitely see that as an advantage for us. They can stop the hackers from using our endpoints.
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Fastly
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Cons
F5
  • I'd like to see the licensing model streamlined instead of having this, plus, plus this, plus this to get a working product. I had to go back to the sales team several different times to get a fully deployed product.
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Fastly
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Alternatives Considered
F5
AWAF provides most complete web application and API protection; including L7 DoS; in custimer's multi cloud deployments whether on-premises, public cloud, private cloud, etc.
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Fastly
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Return on Investment
F5
  • This has been good overall. It has a positive impact on the security of our applications. I don't have necessarily a measurement on ROI, but it definitely definitely added to the security of our products.
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Fastly
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