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F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

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56 Reviews and Ratings

What is F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF?

F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.

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F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Reviews

What users are saying about F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF.
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Pros

  • Robust application protection against diverse threats
  • High flexibility and adaptability to varied IT environments
  • Seamless integration capabilities

Cons

  • Difficulty in quantifying direct financial return on investment

F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF delivers on its promises.

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF is used here to increase the security layers of the web application. Previous tools were not specialized in this area.

Pros

  • Web attacks
  • Intuitive
  • Good visibility of logs

Cons

  • Log storage
  • Reports

Return on Investment

  • Significant reduction of risk

Usability

Other Software Used

Dynatrace

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Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we've been using this F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF for 8 years already probably challenge is when F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF is intriduce as there are unknown blockings probably due to sensitivity but resolved aready

Pros

  • Application Security
  • OWASP

Cons

  • module integrations or license in AI security if possible
  • cost related savings compare to other products

Return on Investment

  • One impact F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF has on our organization's overall business objectives is that F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF is security sensitive
  • Another impact F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF has on our organization's overall business objectives is the F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF blocking feature

Usability

Other Software Used

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF noob

Incentivized
Anthony Meis
Cybersecurity Engineer in Information Technology at University of Kansas Health System (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF to protect our applications to be available externally. We have difficulties maintaining WAF tuning due to the level of time it takes so we'll be interested in the automated cloud waf tuning mentioned during keynote

Pros

  • Delivery - I have not noticed lower delivery performance on properly setup applications
  • Reliability
  • Learning curve - Within the first 3 months, I was able to maintain WAF rules and add applications.

Cons

  • Speed - When there are a lot of alerts, clearing them or filtering through them is tedious. We process alerts weekly

Return on Investment

  • I am not aware of the ROI in either direction, but it sure makes my work enjoyable

Usability

Other Software Used

F5 Distributed Cloud DNS, F5 Distributed Cloud DDoS Mitigation Service

Stay Secure with F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

Incentivized
Turgut Valiyev
Chief of Cyber security Division in Information Technology at Customs State Committee (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF as a Web Application Firewall for electronic services for clients.

Pros

  • Updated Signature
  • Well Reporting

Cons

  • I think there is room for improvement in F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF with May be AI functionality for alerts.

Return on Investment

  • We are new on F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF. It's to early talk about ROI

Usability

Alternatives Considered

FortiWeb and Imperva Application Firewall

Other Software Used

F5 BIG-IP

The Advance WAF Protect the web apps from future attacks

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF is deployed to protect the web apllications

Pros

  • Protect web applications from advanced thereats
  • Easy intergration with web applications
  • Customization with Irules

Usability

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