F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9.2 out of 10

Score

9.2 out of 10

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TrustRadius Insights for F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Dependable Customer Support: Users have appreciated the consistent and reliable customer support offered by the software, enhancing their overall experience. The prompt assistance and knowledgeable support team have contributed to a sense of trust and satisfaction among users.

Easy-to-Understand Features: Reviewers have found the features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF to be straightforward and easily adaptable to emerging security trends, simplifying their usage. The intuitive design and user-friendly interface have made it easier for users to navigate through different functionalities seamlessly.

Comprehensive Protection Capabilities: The software has been commended for its comprehensive protection against various web app attacks, API security threats, and DDoS attacks, providing users with a strong sense of security. Its robust defense mechanisms encompassing multiple vulnerabilities ensure a high level of safeguarding for applications and data.

Reviews

169 Reviews

Why I like F5 Distributed Cloud WAF

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 19, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF to protect our external marketing websites. The business problems solved by the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is it solves us having a way to protect our site against malicious traffic, such as SQL injections, bot attacks, Denial of service etc, while giving us a powerful tool to monitor our web page hits and provide our team an effective measure to ensure we're hitting the mark on providing good security vs. limiting access.

Pros

Provides comprehensive security across our hybrid environment
Provides great API protection
Defense against DDOS

Cons

Lack of warnings, currently the console does not provide a warning when deleting key-value entry.
The web GUI could use some tweaking, currently no undo option when removing exclusion rules.
Configuration complexity, currently menus and options are hidden, making it hard to configure vs on prem.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is well suited for multi-cloud/hybrid environments where protecting applications is spared across environments. Also DDOS protection on the edge.

Verified User

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

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

My Awesome Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 13, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)for threat blocking and extensively for geo-blocking

Pros

geo blocking as our application gets a lot of international traffic
recognizes threat signatures like SQL injection trying to go to our public IPs

Cons

Seems pretty intuitive. The F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) interfaces can be a little rough sometimes.

Likelihood to Recommend

We are a cloud SAAS provider

Verified User

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

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 13, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF allows us the ability to rapidly respond to threats and gain visibility into our blocked traffic. Sometimes that blocked traffic is valid and requires WAF tuning but the ease and use of the Distributed Cloud platform allows us an easy path for identification of those events and remediation of the events.

Pros

threat detection
threat blocking
one click remediation

Cons

WAF graphical UX navigation can be a pain, allow granular definition through graphed events

Likelihood to Recommend

it is well suited as an ingress controller for our traditional public facing applications

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

[...] Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 13, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fairly new to the GFS team but this is my first experience with the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, and I love its mobility with ease of use.

Pros

application protection

Cons

Still exploring what all it can and cannot do.

Likelihood to Recommend

Coming from the Big-IP hardware world this has been an amazing step into how technology advances in the cloud world.

Jeff Flagg

Network Admin in Information Technology at GFS (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

F5 XC is very beneficial to our organization

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) to protect our applications against OWAPS top ten web application security risks.

Pros

Protects against DDOS attacks
Protects against L7 attacks
Protects against BOTS
Provides visibility and monitoring

Cons

It will be helpful if the search tool is improved and more user friendly

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) is well suited for protecting against OWAPS top 10 security vulnerabilities.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

[...]'s review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We are still in the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) evaluation process

Pros

bot detection
threat detection
API discovery

Cons

needs on prem option

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) does everything Cloud flare does and more

Tim McCarthy

Sr. Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Ascend Learning (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) to protect our online applications.

Pros

Secure our mobile app
Secure our web app

Cons

Make the exclusion rule configuration process better
Service policy IP allow list needs to accept more than 4 IP address/subnets

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to recommend F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) to a colleague because, in my experience, F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) protects our application from SQL infection.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

[...]

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) as a test environment and lab validation for external facing app

Pros

security
integration
easy deployment
managable

Cons

I think there is room for improvement in F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) with more signature
I think there is room for improvement in F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) with less false positive
I think there is room for improvement in F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) with AI

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to recommend F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) to a colleague for use in azure deployment and internet facing applications

Ricky Mahfuz

consultant in Engineering at Abbvie (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Protect our portals as well as APIs. XC WAF is the external access point for clients and we want to make sure clean requests make it to our environment

Pros

Simple to build a WAF policy
Simple UI
Very scalable

Cons

Maintaining a policy is challenging (not a simple process to tune policies)
WAF on BigIP has a lot more customization options

Likelihood to Recommend

Super complex environments where the likelihood is false positives is high can make things challenging. A more simplified environment with cleaner data (so bad data is easier to spot) are more suitable

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) to protect our external facing application

Pros

Ease of integration
Auto Cert Renwal
Advance Logging

Cons

UI could be more user friendly
More handson training option
More detail implementation documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

for DDoS protection and for protection against advanced application layer attacks

Verified User

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

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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