F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.3 out of 10

Score

8.3 out of 10

Community insights

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Pros

Streamlined Setup Process: Users have found the setup process for F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense notably simpler than their experiences with other products, praising its user-friendly interface and intuitive steps. This ease of setup has saved users valuable time and resources during implementation.

Robust Threat Mitigation Capabilities: Customers have lauded the tool's ability to effectively mitigate a wide range of cyber threats, including Credential Stuffing, Bot Mitigation, DDoS attacks, and Dictionary attacks. This comprehensive protection ensures a secure digital environment for businesses by proactively identifying and neutralizing potential risks.

Responsive Customer Support Network: Reviewers have highlighted the exceptional support provided by various F5 professionals, such as Security/Solutions Architects, TAMs, Testing personnel, and Client-Side Signals experts. The prompt assistance from these experts has instilled confidence in users when facing technical challenges or seeking guidance on optimizing the tool's functionalities.

Reviews

33 Reviews

Why we stopped fighting bots at the App layer

Rating: 9 out of 10

July 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are mostly using it on login portals, signup forms, cart pages, pricing tools and search endpoints. These areas tend to attract credential stuffing, scarping and account takeovers especially for fintech and e-com clients. We deploy it through the main cloud platform, integrated with both our edge proxy and app backend.

Pros

Distinguishing between automated traffic and real users without breaking the front end or overloading our WAF
I absolutely love the telemetry fingerprinting.
The integration through the console has made rollouts much faster.

Cons

The documentation is thin on edge-case handling. We constantly run into issues enabling bots on multi tenant apps.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my 7 year career as a security engineer, F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is one of the few solutions that actually delivers bot mitigation without affecting the real users. Behavior detection is really smart and fast, which is what we needed for protecting sensitive endpoints. The only thing however that could get better is the admin console. everything is everywhere here.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Bot defense that doesn't punish your SOC team

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We discovered that typical WAFs fail against low and slow bot traffic that mimics real user journeys. Anyone currently active in SOC can confirm how bots have gotten good in the last half 3 years. We were facing the challenge of bots hitting our clients' search and filter endpoints with really high velocities and copying legit paginations - especially those in retail and finance ticketing. We shopped around and settled on F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense. It's now a company standard for us, in every use-case where business logic is exposed.

Pros

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense's behavioral fingerprinting. It catches really subtle patterns that are invisible to the average WAF rules.
A JS challenge through F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is on another level, noise levels really tank upon implementation.
Routing traffic through a dedicated inspection lane using CDN rules before feeding into your SOC alerting pipelines.

Cons

I still have a hard time debugging SDK-based integrations . On a react native app, we had to dig deep into logs to see why token validation was intermittently falling.
The client-side libraries could use better Typescript support, especialy when pairing with custom telemetry pipelines.

Likelihood to Recommend

I'd strongly recommend it, but with a few caveats depending on how mature the team is with behavioral based security tools. One of our fintech clients was getting hit with low volume, widely spread login attempts, below our rate limiting thresholds. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense was able to flag abnormal input timings, inconsistent device fingerprinting and high entropy in field population behavior. You can only imagine the wave of downstream account lockouts this saved the client.

On the other end we had a client with a real time trading platform using Graphql over websockets. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense wasn't able to tap into that stream natively. we had to reverse engineer a proxy layer to inspect events. It worked but it was clunky and not officially supported

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense in the construction arena

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 8, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've been dealing with bots creating fake subcontractor profiles to harvest bid data and influence timelines. We are using F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense to automatically filter traffic before it even hits the backend.

Also, many of our partners reuse passwords across platforms. We had a rising trend of bot driven that were hard to distinguish from legit access. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense sorts this out for us.

Pros

It plugs into our existing web stack without tearing anything done.
I haven't come across a better tool that picks up behavioral mismatch as quick as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Its js injection approach

Cons

I've received complains of false positives on older browsers. I've recently had a pm try to upload a permit using a legacy browser from a jobsite trailer and the bot engine flaaged it.

Likelihood to Recommend

I'll talk about my experience, and they can learn from that. We're actively protecting 8 core web properties and two mobile APIs, with plans to expand our Request for quote system next quarter. We monitor data through their dashboards but also integrate detection logs with splunk for correlation. If these apply to you, then F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense will be a great fit.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Bots out business in

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We deploy F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense on our client facing apps, internal ERP portals and API gateways. It is so good at inspecting behavior signals before traffic reaches our core infrastructure. Our team is actively engaging it to auto mitigate non human interactions without disrupting legitimate users.

Pros

It's a beast at mitigating Credential stuffing attacks on employee portals.
Bots were overloading our inventory endpoints during working hours. With F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, we were able to rate limit these with intent based logic rather than just IP blocking.

Cons

Well, the initial tuning period was such a was such a wait. For about two weeks we had to whitelist internal tools and train the system not to overcorrect.

Likelihood to Recommend

Our security stack covers a wide perimeter - supply chain vendor portals, field ops dashboard and in-house project tracking systems. Most of these are API heavy and really exposed via front ends. That's where F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense stand out. It doesn't just do basic signature matching. It looks at intent and interaction patterns, not just payloads.

Keisha Leeds

Head of IT Security in Information Technology at Carl Bakers Engineers (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Probamos el producto, puntualmente bot defense y waf. realmente cumplió con las expectativas y tenemos.mucho mas para aprender y aplicar. Iremos aplicando otras características de a poco.

We tested the product, specifically F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense and WAF. It truly lived up to expectations, and we have much more to learn and apply. We'll gradually implement other features.

Pros

Waf
Bot defense
Reports
Graficos
Graphics

Cons

Likelihood to Recommend

Lo utilizamos para detectar bot en los login de nuestras aplicaciones críticas.

We use it to detect bots in the logins of our critical applications.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed protection for our login system. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense helped us resolve this situation and improve the security of our application access.

Pros

Detecta Bot y toma accion
Detect Bot and take action
Brinda telemetria
Provides telemetry
Brinda seguridad
Provides security
Puede identificar muchos tipos de bot
Can identify many types of bots
Da visibilidad y metricas
Provides visibility and metrics

Cons

Mejora en buscador en el dashboard
Improved search engine on the dashboard

Likelihood to Recommend

Escenarios donde por ejemplo un indentity provider es esencial

Scenarios where, for example, an identity provider is essential

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

F5 products are rock solid

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Planning to use F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense for upcoming projects. Plan to use for malicious bots, good bots and human users. realtime blocking of bad bots. to use with web app firewall to detect bots causing issues to public and private APIs for analytics, logs and alerts for compliance and anslysis

Pros

Protects e-commerce sites from carding bots
Improve customer experience by removing bot noise
Prevents fraudulent logins
Secures API endpoints

Cons

User interface improvements for more user friendly GUI
Updating ML models more frequently
Support user behavioral biometrics

Likelihood to Recommend

Online banking ecommerce insurance portals social media platforms, SaaS trials, job portals anomaly detection can be used for airlines , retails, reals estate, travel agencies card payment fraud ticketing , gaming platforms , fintech apps, reeard programs detrct cart abuse patterns open banking fibtech APis product search api affiliate marketing platforms health care platforms

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense secure the application more and secure

Pros

Cloud Bot Defense secure application more

Cons

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense should be more customize

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is more suited related to security.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

A trusted brand and a great partner

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense to ensure that all allowed activities are closely monitored

Pros

Monitoring
Securing
Alerting

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is an eight out of ten because of the ease of use and deployment

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 9, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To protect my clients from advanced attacks that use Botnets to achieve their goals.

Para proteger a mis clientes de ataques avanzados que utilizan Botnet para lograr sus objetivos.

Pros

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense uses AI to analyze massive volumes of traffic and detect attacks
Bot defense that adapts faster than criminals
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense uses human experts and machine learning to ensure bot prediction models
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense utiliza la IA para analizar volúmenes masivos de tráfico y detectar ataques
Defensa contra bots que se adapta más rápido que los delincuentes
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense utiliza expertos humanos y aprendizaje automático para garantizar modelos de predicción de bots

Cons

Improve integration options
Mejorar las opciones de integración

Likelihood to Recommend

It is appropriate to have advanced protection against bot attacks using AI.

Es apropiado para tener una protección avanzada contra ataques de bots utilizando IA.

<i>This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.</i>

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

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Bot defense that doesn't punish your SOC team

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense's behavioral fingerprinting. It catches really subtle patterns that are invisible to the average WAF rules.
A JS challenge through F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense is on another level, noise levels really tank upon implementation.
Routing traffic through a dedicated inspection lane using CDN rules before feeding into your SOC alerting pipelines.

Cons

I still have a hard time debugging SDK-based integrations . On a react native app, we had to dig deep into logs to see why token validation was intermittently falling.
The client-side libraries could use better Typescript support, especialy when pairing with custom telemetry pipelines.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review