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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Rubrik

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Rubrik is cloud data management and enterprise backup software provided by Palo Alto-based Rubrik, Inc. It is a software platform that provides backup, instant recovery, archival, search, analytics, compliance, and copy data management in one secure fabric across data centers and clouds.N/A
    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Rubrik
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Rubrik
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Rubrik
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    No answer on this topic
    Rubrik, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    178 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    158 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    93 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    174 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    99 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    129 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    142 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    88 Answers
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Rubrik
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Rubrik
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    Rubrik
    8.7
    142 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.7127 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings8.8136 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings8.8125 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.1125 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.0134 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.4131 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings8.9129 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings6.7137 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings8.9141 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.1130 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings9.9142 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings9.0139 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.8142 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings9.9132 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Rubrik
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (180 ratings)
    8.5
    (142 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.3
    (26 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (23 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.1
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.5
    (8 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Rubrik
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Rubrik, Inc
    Rubrik is still a relatively new product when compared to other solutions which tackle total data protection. The feature set is quite broad but still needs some refinements. Most of the User Interface is quite straightforward and easy, but some areas are a bit lacking in a description of what the option is used for, or the option is missing. While making the user experience easy, many tunables aren’t present and require a Support Tunnel to be open for a Support person to make a change in the customer’s environment. Seems the first question Support always asks is if you can open a tunnel for them to remote in. Then you’re not able to monitor exactly what they’re doing.
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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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    Rubrik, Inc
    • It just works right out of the box. No customizations were needed to start using.
    • It protects several types of databases such as IBM DB2 that are not protected by competing products.
    • The Rubrik Support team is very knowledgeable and responsive to our issues.
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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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    Rubrik, Inc
    • Automated test restores. I would love to setup automated and random test restores on a regular basis where Rubrik's system will restore a random file or directory to a test SharePoint folder, send a full report, and provide a path to the folder for review and confirmation.
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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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    Rubrik, Inc
    The support has been incredible. Any time we have had a question, it has always been answered within 24hrs. Also, the team is always will to hop on a Zoom call to help walk us through the dashboard and troubleshoot any issues we are having. Also, having the peace of mind that our data is protected should anything happen in our system.
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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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    Rubrik, Inc
    The support is top notch both tech and sales team, the tools are simple
    to use and yet still is feature rich. Security is top of the list, the
    product is sold and reliable, easy to configure and intuitive to use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Seems no issue
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    Rubrik, Inc
    Rubrik's brik is designed with redundancy in mind, ensuring that if one node experiences issues, others can continue to provide backup and recovery services.
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    Performance
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
    Incentivized
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    Rubrik, Inc
    Yes. Even on VPN and poor occasional poor internet speeds we've had no issues.
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    Support Rating
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
    Incentivized
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    Rubrik, Inc
    Rubrik support has been pretty good. There have been a few issues with new releases we have experienced and are still considering if we want to make the jump to version nine. There are a few things we are concerned about which are giving us pause. That being said, support is working hard to answer our questions.
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    In-Person Training
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Rubrik, Inc
    Very easy to take in and pass on.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
    Incentivized
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    Rubrik, Inc
    Easy to follow and very thorough. Trainer was knowledgeable and helpful answering any questions and providing detailed answers where possible. It's also nice to gain another badge :) There is also the Rubrik University online tutorials to refer back to and keep updated with new innovations. I would say the exam was very hard.
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
    Incentivized
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    Rubrik, Inc
    From experience the implementation was smooth and easy, like a simple plug and play format but would need coordination from your network team to be able to see the entire IT infrastructure.
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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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    Rubrik, Inc
    Having all our backups under one umbrella made product management easier, with not need to manage myltip contracts.
    The additional analysis of the data after the fact gave insights into our user data, without the need for an addition product, or the impact on live data sets.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    Rubrik, Inc
    We are fine with the 1 year or 3 year support options that Rubrik has had. The support for the on-prem hardware has been great too. We've had them for quite a while (4+ years) and no end of support yet.
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    Scalability
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
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    Rubrik, Inc
    Rubrik allows multi-site deployment and cloud integration. But we are currently only using Rubrik in one location with Archives in Cloud
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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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    Rubrik, Inc
    • Rubrik has eliminated all our other backup tools that we were trying to accomplish what they offer.
    • Rubrik has made management of backups a non-issue.
    • Recovery of systems and files takes seconds or minutes.
    • We have a better strategy against ransomware.
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