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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

    Tenable Nessus

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ATenable headquartered in Columbia offers Nessus, a vulnerability scanning and security assessment solution used to analyze an entity's security posture, vulnerability testing, and provide configuration assessments.

    $2,790

    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Tenable Nessus
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    1 Year
    $2,790.00
    1 Year + Advanced Support
    $3,190.00
    2 Years
    $5,440.00
    2 Years + Advanced Support
    $6,240.00
    3 Years
    $7,951.00
    3 Years + Advanced Support
    $9,151.00
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Tenable Nessus
    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)Tenable Nessus
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    It is more advanced & next gen type products
    Incentivized
    Tenable
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    178 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    158 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    174 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    129 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    142 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Tenable Nessus
    Threat Intelligence
    Comparison of Threat Intelligence features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Tenable Nessus
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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    Ratings
    Tenable Nessus
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Network Analytics00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Threat Recognition00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Vulnerability Classification00 Ratings9.53 Ratings
    Automated Alerts and Reporting00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Threat Analysis00 Ratings5.63 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence Reporting00 Ratings5.13 Ratings
    Automated Threat Identification00 Ratings5.63 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management Tools
    Comparison of Vulnerability Management Tools features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Tenable Nessus
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    Tenable Nessus
    7.5
    4 Ratings
    10% below category average
    IT Asset Realization00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Authentication00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
    Configuration Monitoring00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
    Web Scanning00 Ratings5.63 Ratings
    Vulnerability Intelligence00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
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    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Tenable Vulnerability Management
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Tenable Nessus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (180 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Tenable Nessus
    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
    Read full review
    Tenable
    It is an excellent tool for scanning servers, workstations, and network devices to identify missing patches and misconfiguration; we regularly use it to confirm patch effectiveness after the update; it also helps us for preparing audits such as iso 27001, and regulatory requirements, it also helps us to identify open ports and services that violate security.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    • Nessus is best at performing vulnerability scans, in fact, it gives findings and moreover accurate findings of the assessments. It does not do penetration testing or exploit the vulnerabilities because it is concerned about scanning the systems/applications.
    • In fact, Nessus has multiple profiles/policies to perform different types of scans such as, scans oriented for PCI-DSS, malware scans, web application scans, bad shell shock detection scan to name a few.
    • Nessus has the ability to classify the vulnerabilities into risk-based categories from critical to even informational which I think is one of the things that separates Nessus from other vulnerability scanners.
    Incentivized
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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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    Tenable
    • The tool has lots of options for setting up before scanning any device, this methodology could be simplified further with default configuration for various devices predefined, anyhow we can use this technique by making use of policies.
    • For advanced users we cannot disable the plugins inside the plugin groups, we can enable the whole set of plugins at a time, for few hundreds its ok, but thousands of plugins are of waste of resource and time.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    Nessus is best and easy to use application for Vulnerabilities finding and reporting, it has multiple platforms and wide scope covering almost all devices for security improvement so far, thus we are very likely to continue its services.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    Tenable Nessus is a great product and provides a lot of value, but it is difficult to set up and use and the amount of data it generates can be overwhelming. It does help us prioritize based on the severity of the detection, however there are sometimes mitigating factors that we have implemented that Nessus does not account for, which causes lots of noise in the reports.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Seems no issue
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    I haven't needed to contact support yet. But issues are easily solved with a quick internet search which means support and by extension, the larger community are involved and knowledgeable.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Tenable
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    Sometimes when we identify a vulnerability with Nessus that has an exploit, we made a proof of concept with Metasploit in order to show to the IT managers the importance of the software/hardware hardening.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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    Tenable
    • Nessus certainly has a positive impact while me while performing my job, either as security research, or performing vulnerability assessments for clients. It gives a lot of information about the system/application after performing scans. The number of false positives is also less compared to other vulnerability scanners.
    • The professional edition is very useful as policy templates available in this edition are very handy and useful even to perform compliance scan like PCI DSS scan.
    • Also, the ability to export the scan results into reports in formats like HTML, PDF is very useful which could be for performing system/application reviews.
    Incentivized
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