F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Score 9.1 out of 10
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F5 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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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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They are very similar and protect pretty much against the same attacks. F5 though is easier to manage.
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As per company standards
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Compared with AWS WAF, F5 WAF has better customer service. They can help you fix it immediately. Although AWS WAF examples can find from internet, we still prefer to use F5 customer support. Another one thing is AWS WAF does not have features like as F5 AWS, may be because of …
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Do not change IP for DNS distribution to zones around the world
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waf de azure, pero El waf de azure es mas para empresas pequenas,

Azure WAF, but Azure WAF is more for small businesses
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F5 provide the robustness and single console for multiple solution and management and functional is easy and more adoptable to use for day to day support and functions. where there are more option for threat and security prevention and enabling the customer to support the …
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good product road map catering to industry needs and requirements
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Better filtering of urls.
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F5 WAF better than fortinet beccause WAF provide more option to protect the applicaion.
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for continuty capacity and funcionality
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In my previous company we used Akamai WAF. I know that in my previous company with usage of Akamai there were some issues, but as far as technically how they compare, I couldn't really tell you.
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User Ratings
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(144 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.4
(9 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(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 helps our website to manage well during high traffic seasons and Holidays. This plaform manages the website overall performance and also protect it against DDoS attacks during these High demand period. It also protects transactions done on our website for the booking of services and products buying by our customers and keep their data safe.
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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
  • Better integration between different F5 solutions
  • Fail over between devices feels unstable if there are thousands of objects attached to the traffic-group. Needs to be more simpler.
  • We have seen issues with malicious user detection where we have used open protocols due to legacy applications, and have been caught with legitimate traffic being blocked.
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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
It provides fewer false positives and a more granular approach to eliminating them, allowing us to focus on threats. Also, with the need to secure both on-premise and cloud-based web applications, we can only use Azure on the cloud part, but we still need to cover on-premise apps with WAF, so we would need to double the time to deploy and manage. Also, its flexibility of deployment scenarios offers us a faster time to deploy WAF without adjusting the app delivery process to WAF's existence.
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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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