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What is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)?

F5 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.

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Who Buys & Uses F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Reviews

What users are saying about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall).
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Pros

  • Robust DDoS protection and mitigation capabilities
  • Effective real-time detection and mitigation of malicious bots
  • Comprehensive defense against OWASP Top 10 attacks

Cons

  • User interface and dashboard navigation can be complex or outdated
  • Policy configuration and tuning, especially for false positives, requires refinement
  • Reporting and custom dashboard features are perceived as less robust

F5 Distributed Cloud - a view from an InfoSec standpoint

Incentivized
Juan Carlos CruzView profile
Cyber Security Specialist in Information Technology at Evertec (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to protect our & our clients web applications. The WAAP solution is one of the bests for its ability to be as simple to use or as granular as our needs require it.

What I personally love about it is the ease to create new infrastructure and configure domains, routes and rules to protect any web app or API. WAAP is a necessity on todays landscape and the ability to summon it on the cloud in an cloud agnostic solution is really a blessing.

Pros

  • Cloud agnostic. I like that no matter where the Web app lives, it can be protected with F5 WAAP.
  • Easy creation of F5 infrastructure and deployment.
  • Ability to give our clients or developers visibility on statistics about their web app performance and traffic events on f5.
  • Many services all can be used and seen on one central dashboard. Since is cloud. We dont need diferent tools or logon into many others dashboard to work. Like WAP, DNS, CDN, load balancing. All is intigrated into one dashboard.

Cons

  • User roles. Current API groups and Elements are not clear nor intuitive to use. Is very difficult to give granular level access to users on each service. For example. Access to import TLS certificates but not able to do or see anything else.
  • GUI overall is a bit clunky. Load Balancer configuration window could be better organized. Or streamline.
  • Lack of built in global dashboard and reports. Something useful would be a Global report listing the status of all TLS certificates imported and in use on the platform. Same with the status of WAF on Load Balancers.

Return on Investment

  • Accelerated time of deployment of protection
  • Lower total cost of ownership.
  • Streamline our work. Instead of many dashboard from many BigIps, we use only one dashboard. F5XC.
  • The WAAP solution is one of the best for is granular ability.

Alternatives Considered

F5 BIG-IP

Other Software Used

AWS CloudTrail, Azure Front Door, F5 BIG-IP

No hassle WAF implementation

Incentivized
Adrian Lai
Snr Consultant in Information Technology at Tech Data Distribution (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a market place for partners to order products. It is a public website, so it is exposed to the whole Internet, therefore it has to be secured.

Pros

  • Easy to setup
  • Easy to use
  • Fast
  • User friendlyu

Cons

  • Using AI for setup
  • Develop and APP for instant notification on any security event

Return on Investment

  • Lower TCO
  • Improved security posture

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Wide Area Application Services

Other Software Used

Fortinet FortiGate

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) review

Incentivized
Daren Han
senior software engineer in Information Technology at nec Asia Pacific pte ltd (501-1000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) product f5 provides gives our company an competitive edge in today's world of vulnerable security loopholes. the product is useful in our integration for the government projects we have and f5 gives us the necessary support we need to deliver our utmost capability.

Pros

  • security
  • great integration with our current applications
  • well known industry product

Cons

  • more easy to use setup guide

Return on Investment

  • accelerated time to deliver
  • improved security posture when we use f5 products
  • efficiency in detecting security issues.

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review

Incentivized
Raimundo Lima
Coordenador in Information Technology at Prefeitura de Fortaleza (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The main benefits observed were increased protection for digital services, a reduced attack surface, simplified security management, and improved availability of critical applications for end users.

Os principais beneficios observados foram o aumento da protecao does services digitalis, a reducao de superficie de ataque, a simplificacao da gestao de seguranca e a melhoria da disponibilidade das aplicacoes criticas para os usuarios finais.

Pros

  • Advanced protection against web threats
  • API Security and Bot Controls
  • Centralized management in hybrid and multi-cloud environments
  • Operational visibility and incident response
  • Protecao avancada contra amecas web
  • Seguranca de APIs e controls de bots
  • Gestao centralizada em ambient es hibridos e multinuvem
  • Visibilidade operational e resposta a incidentes

Cons

  • Learning curve and usability
  • Custom reports and dashboards
  • Simplification of event investigation
  • Curva de aprendizado e usabilidade
  • Relatorios e dashboards personalizados
  • Simplificacao da investigacao de eventos

Return on Investment

  • Strengthening the security posture.
  • Greater service availability and continuity
  • Operational efficiency and risk reduction
  • Best return on security investments
  • Fortalecimento da postural de seguridad.
  • Major disponibilidade e continuidade dos servicos
  • Eficiencia operacional e reducao de riscos
  • Melhor retorno sobre investimentos em segurança.

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Incentivized
Mayra Mendoza PalomaresView profile
Ingenieria en Telecomunicaciones in Engineering at Cuallisys (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primarily for the protection of our clients' web applications and portals, as they constantly seek the most comprehensive security for both new developments and existing public-facing portals which represent an attack surface and require robust security due to their corporate profiles.

Principalmente para la proteccion de aplicaciones y portales web de nuestros clients ya que Ellos siempre estan buscando la seguridad mas completa para sus nuevos desarrollos y actuales portales que son publicos y son un area de ataque y debido al perfil de sus empresas requieren una seguridad muy completa

Pros

  • Portal protection
  • Web applications
  • new app developments and releases
  • Proteccion de portales
  • Aplicaciones web
  • nuevos desarrollos y publicaciones de apps

Cons

  • Maintaining meticulous management of parameters
  • A more intuitive platform
  • El tener minuciosa administracion de parametros
  • Una plataforma mas intuitiva

Return on Investment

  • improvement in portal security
  • to be able to protect applications that weren't on their radar
  • mejora en seguridad de portales
  • poder proteger aplicaciones que no tenian en radar

Other Software Used

NGINX

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