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    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.N/A
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    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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    F5
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    We use bigIP primarily for on-premises infrastructure and protection against volumetric DDoS attacks, including F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall).

    El bigIP lo utilizamos más para infra on premise, proteccion de ataques volumetricos de DDoS que inculye F5 …
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    I prefer F5 Distributed Cloud over BIG-IP is due to we have multiple BIG-IPs, and login in to each one and administer them individually is time consuming. Versus maintaining visibility globally on just one dashboard. In addition, the WAAP services in Distributed Cloud is …
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    DDOS protection and leadership in addressing advance threats
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    In our opinion, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) is just better
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    Avoid single point of failures avoided with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall).
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    Easy to use, clean interface and Dashboard. SaaS offering, easy to onboard. Do not have to worry about upgrades and updates as this is taken care by F5. No worries about operating system bugs and fixes.
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    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    it is a market leader among the security products that we have evaluated.
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    existing footprint
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    F5 continues to be the leader in our mind, offering the most robust and powerful WAF on the market that meets our needs.
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    F5 DC WAF fit into our ecosystem better as we were already an F5 shop
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    excellent
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    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    As we are already a Big-IP shop, this products fits well with the existing ecosystem. At the same time, this is cost effective and easy to deploy
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    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Just as easy and flexible as Akamai products, but definitely needs time to build the overall coverage compared to Akamai CDN network
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    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    ModSecurity (open-source) and F5 (commercial, including NGINX App Protect) are Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) protecting against Layer 7 attacks. ModSecurity offers a free, flexible, OWASP-based solution, while F5 provides enterprise-grade performance, advanced automation, …
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    we selected F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) for its strong threat protection centralized management ,and effective support and for hybrid cloud enviroments
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    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Not bad, however there were services that were provided by DOS arrest that are automated through F5 cloud and would require attention and expertise to mimic. It does offer the same but must be configured not offered as a bundled configuration.
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    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    We considered Cloudflare in the first place because it came with strong appeal upfront, it's easy to deploy especially for small web apps. We even ran a few pilot tests with it during client rollouts but settled on F5 Distributed Cloud WAF instead. Main reason being its …
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    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    They are very similar and protect pretty much against the same attacks. F5 though is easier to manage.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (181 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    It is doing its job effectively, and its scalability is superb. So, if you have a mixed environment with cloud and on-premise systems to protect this product, provide a solution to the challenge. However, its management is more suited to DevOps teams rather than to the ones responsible for on-premise systems, making the management a bit more complex.
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    Pros
    F5
    • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
    • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
    • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
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    Cons
    F5
    • Lack of warnings, currently the console does not provide a warning when deleting key-value entry.
    • The web GUI could use some tweaking, currently no undo option when removing exclusion rules.
    • Configuration complexity, currently menus and options are hidden, making it hard to configure vs on prem.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    We gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
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    Usability
    F5
    I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
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    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Seems no issue
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    Performance
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
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    Support Rating
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
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    Online Training
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    The other one that I've used in the past, they're very similar and I haven't used it recently, so I can't do a side-by-side comparison today. But I can say that F5 does everything we want it to do consistent with what this other product did do and it's got enhanced features and of course we have a long history with F5 as a product set in general.
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    Scalability
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
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