NameScan vs. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NameScan
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
NameScan, a member of the Neurocom group, is based in Australia and provides a publicly accessible online service which enables users to check the names of individual persons or companies instantly, against the Dow Jones Watchlists, which the vendor presents as the most detailed and accurate global watchlists available today of Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), officially sanctioned individuals and persons of Special Interest.
$12
per month
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
F5 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.
$25
per month
Pricing
NameScanF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Editions & Modules
Sapphire
$12
pay as you go
Sapphire
$160
20 scans
Emerald
$375
250 scans
Free
$0
Individual
$25
per month
Teams
$200
per month
Organization
Quote
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NameScanF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Score 8.3 out of 10
GitLab
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
NameScanF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
(2 ratings)
8.3
(13 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(13 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
NameScanF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Likelihood to Recommend
NameScan
In our specific case, NameScan is an interesting piece of software for administratively verifying the identity of those who have to enroll in courses or discuss a Thesis. The fact that NameScan can be integrated with other software (anti-plagiarism, for example, Turnitin) guarantees greater use efficiency. In this case, the integrated verification of identity and possible plagiarism helps us significantly limit fraud.
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F5
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is well suited for large Enterprises that face advanced bot attacks from Web
Scraping, Credential Stuffing, Carding/Credit Card Stuffing, Fake Account
Creation, and more where the collection of the Client-Side signals helps clearly show if the attackers are telling lies vs. other bot solutions that place a lot of the responsibility on their customers to tune bot scores.
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Pros
NameScan
  • Single Dashboard Solution for all Quires
  • Easy Integration with System
  • Competitive Price
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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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Cons
NameScan
  • The software still generates confusion, especially in the case of Asian names, often repetitive or similar to each other. In this case, the information it returns is not very accurate.
  • The numerous integrative databases that can be purchased are really very expensive.
  • NameScan is graphically unintuitive.
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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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Support Rating
NameScan
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F5
Support is quick to respond. They help guide you through any issues you have and ensure everything has been resolved before disconnecting. Wait times can vary, but it depends on the time of day. Eventually, excellent support is reached, and you can learn a few things from them as well.
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Implementation Rating
NameScan
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F5
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense and our partners are great at helping us with in-depth Traffic Analysis of protected endpoints first in Monitoring Mode. After 7-14 days of Traffic Analysis/False Positive reviews, we can clearly tell when we are ready to place protected endpoints into Mitigation Mode.
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Alternatives Considered
NameScan
NameScan well integrated with our existing system, with less false positives results, where as with AuditGenius we get search results are not that great & sanctions list such as WorldCompliane, Dow Jones not up to mark, we have also issues with integration with our system . NameScan also offer us best competitive price .
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F5
We have tried a whole bunch of solutions before we got Shape bot defense solution. But non of them worked for us the way F5 Shape solution worked
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Return on Investment
NameScan
  • It allowed us to limit the admission of non-welcome people to the University.
  • It has allowed us to limit the number of frauds in the context of thesis discussions, especially doctoral ones.
  • NameScan has become fundamental in our university's internalisation to verify, in particular, people arriving from countries at risk.
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F5
  • [F5] Shape [Security] established a clear negative trend line in bot traffic to our retail site.
  • [F5] Shape [Security's] anti-automation has moved our business out of reach for ROI for attackers.
  • So far, [F5] Shape [Security] has not caused any incidents as a technology, and has stifled attacks which would have certainly landed as a Sev 2 without this protection.
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