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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AF5's Distributed Cloud API Security provides discovery and deep insights from use of AI/ML. It can be used to block API attacks in real time and eliminate vulnerabilities at their source. The SaaS-based portal enables users to manage and go deep for threat analytics, forensics, and troubleshooting of modern applications.N/A

    Selenium

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASelenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.N/A
    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud API SecuritySelenium
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud API SecuritySelenium
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud API SecuritySelenium
    Considered Both Products
    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    39 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    39 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    33 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud API SecuritySelenium
    API Security
    Comparison of API Security features of F5 Distributed Cloud API Security and Selenium
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    8.4
    34 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Selenium
    -
    Ratings
    Data Protection8.334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audit Logging8.329 Ratings00 Ratings
    Input Validation7.826 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Filtering8.227 Ratings00 Ratings
    Denial of Service (DoS) Protection8.831 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security Notification and Alerts8.830 Ratings00 Ratings
    API Key Management8.328 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Protection8.926 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation Testing
    Comparison of Automation Testing features of F5 Distributed Cloud API Security and Selenium
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    -
    Ratings
    Selenium
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Record and Automate00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Multi-Browser Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Test Management00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Integrated Version Control00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Object Recognition00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Data-Driven Testing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Testing Reports & Analytics00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    F5 Distributed Cloud API SecuritySelenium
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    BrowserStack
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud API SecuritySelenium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (40 ratings)
    9.2
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    9.2
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (39 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.3
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.3
    (27 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud API SecuritySelenium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    I believe it covers everything related to the applications' security aspects, but there are a lot of improvements that need to be made. For example, better granular controls like bot categories listed on the distributed console and a granular URL-based control for the rate-limiting option are needed.
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    Open Source
    When you have to test the UI and how it behaves when certain actions are performed, you need something that can automate the browsers. This is where Selenium comes to the rescue. If you have to test APIs and not the frontend (UI), I would recommend going with other libraries that support HTTP Requests. Selenium is good only when you have no choice but to run the steps on a browser.
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    Pros
    F5
    • It auto-discovers APIs, even the ones engineers forget to document. Then profiles them without needing changes to our codebase.
    • Shadow API exposure.
    • It's pretty decent at abnormal behavior detection.
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    Open Source
    • For any web based UI automation, Selenium is the best tool out there to automate your tests.
    • It supports multiple coding languages like Java, Python, Ruby, C# etc.. to choose from.
    • There is a huge community of users and can get many answers on StackOverFlow.
    • It has lot of other plugins to make your tests even more efficient.
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    Cons
    F5
    • More accurate detection of advanced persistent threats (APTs) targeting APIs.
    • A greater emphasis on checking APIs' schema and contract may prevent them from accepting misconfigurations or malicious input.
    • More customized, dynamic, and targeted protection for high-value APIs or high-risk user groups.
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    Open Source
    • Selenium is pretty user-friendly but sometimes tests tend to flake out. I'd say roughly one out of twenty tests yields a false positive.
    • Selenium software cannot read images. This is a minor negative because a free plug-in is available from alternate sources.
    • Slowness may be a minor factor with Selenium, though this is an issue with basically any testing software since waiting on a site to execute JavaScript requires the browser to wait for a particular action.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security provides robust API protection with solid threat detection, excellent visibility, and seamless integration into our architecture
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    Open Source
    We love this product mainly because of its high customization abilities and the ease of use. Moreover, its free and can be learned easily through online communities and videos. The tests are more consistent and reliable as compared to Manual tests. It has enabled us to test a large number of features all in one go, which would have impossible through manual tests. The reports generated at the end of the tests are really helpful for the QA and the development teams to get a fair view of the application.
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    Usability
    F5
    Great product. Working with F5 for many years, we found the products F5 provided are all cutting edge technology. Although in F5 Distributed Cloud API Security we still have a lot to find out, but we believe this experience will be very good. Especially on the security side. Trust in F5.
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    Open Source
    For those who are unfamiliar with coding, there is a bit of a learning curve. There is plenty of helpful documentation and resources but it can take a little time to get the software up and running. Once you get the hang of how Selenium works, and what it can do, you realize how many things you can use it for, and how many processes you can automate.
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    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Always available
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    F5
    The UI is cloud-native and generally responsive. Report generation is easy Integrates with cloud providers
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    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    Lo hacemos mediante un partner We did it through a partner
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    Open Source
    The Selenium app has a pretty fat community of users. For the problems we are experiencing, we are primarily receiving support from these communities. In addition, there is widespread service support. Instant support is given to the problems we experience when we need Online support. We and our team are happy to provide this support, especially before important deployment processes
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security is our company looking forward product. With more and more API is using in both on prem, private cloud, public cloud and multi cloud environment, we as a financial institution, we are keep into the security settings to protect the information. That's the main reason we want to use this product.
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    Open Source
    We did everything we needed to use it. Now we can execute our tests on different operational systems and browsers running few tests simultaneously. We also implemented Appium framework to execute our tests on mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets. We use SauceLabs for our test execution and Jenkins for continuous integration.
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    We ran a short POC with Salt. Its data classification and attack replay features were impressive. What held us back was the limited support for hybrid deployments and poor integration into our CI/CD pipelines, as F5 did.
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    Open Source
    At the time of adoption, there were not many other alternatives that were even close to being competitive when it comes to browser testing. As far as I know now to this day, there is still little competition to Selenium for what it does. Any other browser-based testing still utilises Selenium to interact with the browser.
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    Scalability
    F5
    Centralized policy management: You can manage API security policies consistently across locations without duplicating effort, which supports scaling.


    API discovery and monitoring at scale: It automatically discovers APIs and monitors them in real time across large and complex environments.
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    Open Source
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • F5 Distributed Cloud API Security mitigates many API-related security threats, including bot attacks, DDoS, data breaches, and unauthorized access attempts.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud API Security uses robust threat detection, machine learning, and real-time monitoring for speedier identification.
    • Reductions in security events result in fewer breaches, reduced downtime, and lower attack remediation costs.
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    Open Source
    • There hasn’t been a downside to using it yet other than we’ve got to update the programs we create for each change.
    • This has saved us hundreds of hours of manpower by allowing our automation engineer to rapid fire tests.
    • We are able to screenshot and save entire sites before and after launch with a program the automation engineer created
    • We can compare large volumes of data against data in excel docs with a program created using Selenium
    Incentivized
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