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    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

    NMI Merchant Central

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ANMI Merchant Central, formerly IRIS CRM, is a payments-focused Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform for independent sales organizations, banks, payment facilitators, and software providers. It manages the merchant lifecycle from prospecting and onboarding through underwriting, boarding, support, residuals, reporting, and portfolio management.N/A
    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud Bot DefenseNMI Merchant Central
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud Bot DefenseNMI Merchant Central
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    89%
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud Bot DefenseNMI Merchant Central
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (42 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (42 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.7
    (30 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud Bot DefenseNMI Merchant Central
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
    It’s been 2 years since IRIS CRM is supporting me by supporting my business and I have seen enormous progress in my business so far which is a really good sign and is enough for me to be satisfied with it. According to me and as I have observed it is fully loaded with many useful tools that can help in uplifting a business. Removes the manual cycle from me entering every people's hours exclusively. We really evaluated Bullhorn cover and tab it was not awful by any means.
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    Pros
    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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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
    • the new clients can be onboarded within minutes and this stands out among other competitive applications
    • has ROI calculator within the website making it hassle free
    • Shows up risk flags of clients with special monitorX
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    Cons
    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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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
    • Some minor design issues in the record communication interface. For example, replying to an existing email thread within the record set does not capture the entire communication or signatures.
    • Workflow customization is not easy for all users and can require some coding skills on the back end.
    • Linking forms from external websites is one feature that isn't very intuitive. Some leads are better inputted manually.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
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    Usability
    F5
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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
    It is a wonderful software with an automated messaging service. It has helped us in having a better knowledge of our customer’s needs, preferences, and habits, and by knowing all these we have improved our business. Security is my basic concern and the fact that it has a disabled human element from the business equation are the things that I don’t really like in it.
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    Support Rating
    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.
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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
    It has enabled us to keep a record of the demographics of our clients and eventually we can develop a better understanding of our clients that will lead us to uplift our business. With its amazing sales tool, we have developed a strong relationship with our clients, and helped us in creating a good brand image. We really adore the convenience of managing and reporting data. It is quite easy to handle and all our business is depended on it and it helped us in gaining more loyal customers.
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    Implementation Rating
    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.
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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
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    Alternatives Considered
    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
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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
    The one thing I loved about the agreement express over AuditGenius was the organization of loans to be audited, it is very organised as per the client and his portfolio and shows up flags while the AuditGenius has the list and seems very odd. But also in customer usage, I found many of my business partners using agreement express for the quick onboarding and also for ROI which indeed gave me a strong feeling about the application.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Network Merchants, LLC (NMI)
    • The cost is a bit higher than other options (~$1300/mo), which can be seen as a negative in an absolute sense.
    • The improvement in workflow management has been significant, and has saved at least 50 man-hours per week across our organization.
    • Accurate rolling sales data reporting has been critical in defining quality metrics. This benefit is more indirect, but it has allowed us to better respond to changes in customer complaint trending.
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