F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

Score9.4 out of 10

50 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.

Categories & Use Cases

Anthony Meis

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

Turgut Valiyev

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

Verified User

Engineer (201-500 employees 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

Adolfo Rodrguez

CIO in Information Technology at Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps us protect everything including our intranet, every company we have on Azure and also even an IBM Power 9AS/400 platform. So we have the left and also a full proxy for the non web application platform.

Pros

It provides us with a lot of flexibility for us to move from one data center to another transparently.
It provides us with the capabilities of doing VPN and using multifactor authentication and integrating with all the web platforms that we have in the company and Azure. So very flexible.

Cons

I believe that I haven't seen a version of F5 that works directly on Azure as a platform as a service as opposed to a VM. I believe that I have to provision the virtual edition on a virtual machine. I manage it as a virtual machine instead of a platform. I would like to see something that is self-provisioning and that I can use directly without having to have a machine that I have to manage and manage resources.

Return on Investment

In our case it has been great because the pricing is just right for all the features that we have on the platform and the flexibility. In fact, we acquired another license last year, so that's something that we're interested in. We are currently moving towards the cloud with our ERP systems and eliminating the IBM platform, so we would like to see that F5 virtual option available on Azure.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Azure Web Application Firewall

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are protecting endpoints of our product, we are facing a lot of attacks from crawlers etc. which is really exhausting for our performance.

Pros

Checking the signatures
Working with malicious addresses
Been pretty updated in this world

Cons

Ratelimiting
Easier whitelisting of things, more recommendations of actions
Nothing coming to my mind right now

Return on Investment

Its hard to set it across multiple VS as we would like

Usability

Alternatives Considered

F5 BIG-IP

Other Software Used

Cloudflare

NetScaler

Radware AppWall

Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

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