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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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

144 Reviews

When Rule sets aren't enough F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) brings the brains

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The big problem it mainly solves for us is zero day and unknown attack vectors. Right now every customer facing app and all our internal admin portals run behind F5 Distributed Cloud WAF. We've also wired it into our SIEM and SOAR tools to enrich alerts with traffic metadata and auto-initiate playbooks.

Pros

Identifying exposure risks
Mitigating bot and automation abuse
The superb dynamic inspection capabilities

Cons

Policy testing in pre production still requires some finesse. Maybe a sandbox environment with traffic replay built in would go a long way.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well in my organization, we use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF to secure all client facing APIs and web services across our multi-cloud environments. Our agency builds and deploys web apps for clients in different fields. These apps often have a short sprint cycles, frequent releases and just varying API architectures. Now that opens a lot of surface area for attacks and that's where F5 Distributed Cloud WAF comes in.

Julie Pierce

SOC Engineer in Information Technology at Quantum Flairs (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We have our main web application where we offer our products and service offers.

Pros

Protect again cross site scripting
Brute force attacks
Code modification

Cons

I think Automation in F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) has room for improvement
Zero day attacks

Likelihood to Recommend

I think I am likely to recommend F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) to a colleague to use In front of critical business application

Verified User

Director in Product Management (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helped me protect information from my DBs and it helped me extract information about the use of my DBs.

An attack was stopped very well and they couldn't steal information.

Me ayudó a cuidar información de mis DB y me ayuda a sacar información del uso de mis DB un ataque lo detuvo muy bien y no pudieron robar información

Pros

Usage reports
Suspicious analysis
Bad configurations
Reportes de uso
Análisis sospechosos
Malas configuraciones

Cons

Risk analysis
Recommendations
Automatic reports
Análisis de riesgo
Recomendaciones
Reportes automáticos

Likelihood to Recommend

Because I can share experiences that helped me in an information theft attack, no matter what type of DB or site you have, you give it to protect your sites and it starts acting immediately, taking care of the availability of the sites and makes it so that clients see it all the time without the risk of it being taken down.

Porque puedo dar experiencias de que me ayudó en un ataque de robo de información sin importa que tipo de DB o site tienes le das que te proteja tus sitios y empieza a actuar inmediatamente cuídando la disponibilidad de los sitios y hace que los clientes la vean todo el tiempo sin riesgo a que la vayan a tumbar

<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

Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

30 years of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) is as good as other WAAP leaders

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 16, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We tested F5 Cloud WAF as an option to substitute Imperva Cloud WAF.

Pros

Blocks SQLi
Blocks XSS
Blocks IRA

Cons

More POPs around the world

Likelihood to Recommend

I recommend F5 Cloud for protection against web app threats and API protection.

Verified User

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

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

F5 in Rio de Janeiro

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 16, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use F5 in Rio de Janeiro State Government, secure web apps, balancing the traffic e obter fraturas like URL redirects. Now we are going to expand F5 BIG-IP in others entities to protect more web apps and systems. Additionally, we want to balance two and more sites for contingence.

Pros

Secure apps
URL redirects
Site balancing

Cons

Price
Database protection
API protection

Likelihood to Recommend

Datacenters redundancy, URL redirects, web application protection, strong support and great community. We can use on-premise at one site and virtual appliance on others site.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 16, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, our clients' requirements are focused on improving security and customer experience. To achieve this, it is necessary to have technologies like those of F5 Distributed Cloud, providing all the experience of its cutting-edge technologies that allow us to deliver quality and secure applications and services that the business requires.

Actualmente los requerimientos de nuestros clientes estan enfocados en mejorar la seguridad y la experiencing de sus clientes , para esto es necesario disponer de technologies como las de F5 distributed Cloud., aportando toda esa experiencia de sus technologies de vanguardia que permiten entregar aplicaciones y servicios de calidad y seguridad que require el negocio.

Pros

Deploying Fast and Secure Applications
Despliegue de Aplicaciones rapidas y seguras

Cons

More user-friendly control panel
El panel de control mas amigable

Likelihood to Recommend

Fernando Garcia

Dir.Comercial in Information Technology at Veriopoint HN (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Amazing

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, I use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) to protect my app against to cyberattackers to deny or stole my organization data.

Pros

Web application protection
L7 DDos
Owasp compliance
Granular policies
geographic protection

Cons

APi protection to applications environment
Protect injections codes
Make aplication ever available

Likelihood to Recommend

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) make us protection to on-line application multi-cloud and multi-data centers on premise.

Verified User

Administrator in Corporate (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

USO WAF (I use WAF)

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Uso WAF de F5 para proteccion de portales en AWS, con esto mitigamos ataques de del OWASP, El On-boarding es muy rapido e intuitivo.

I use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF to protect my AWS portals. This mitigates OWASP attacks. Onboarding is very fast and intuitive.

Pros

Proteccion de DDos
DDos Protecction
Balanceo
Balancing
Monitoreo
Monitoring

Cons

Un modo aprendizaje o auditoria de la pagina a proteger
A learning or audit mode of the page to be protected

Likelihood to Recommend

En cualquier escenario de portables Web

In any Web portable scenario

Verified User

Manager (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

thanks

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Estamos comenzando a pasar algunos servicios de nuestra organización por f5 XC, no tenemos mucha experiencia pero si es un producto al cual le queremos sacar el maximo provecho. De momento la funcionalidad que nos permite es utilizar El waf de f5 que es mas robusto que El de azure, y uno de los sitios que estamos pasando por xc esta hosteado en azure.

We're starting to migrate some of our organization's services to F5 XC. We don't have much experience, but it's a product we want to get the most out of. Currently, the functionality it allows us to use is the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, which is more robust than the Azure one. One of the sites we're migrating to XC is hosted on Azure.

Pros

facilidad de implementacion
ease of implementation
proteccion owasp top 10
Owasp Top 10 Protection
proteccion contra amenazas avanzadas
protection against advanced threats
proteccion contra bots maliciosos
protection against malicious bots

Cons

ofrecer mas facilidad para buscar los logs de waf con El support id
Provide easier access to WAF (Web Application Firewall) logs with the support ID

Likelihood to Recommend

por la facilidad de implementación y El integration con muticloud.

For the ease of implementation and integration with multi-cloud

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

F5 A Great Ally

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Distributed Cloud Services es un aliado estrategico para el posicionamiento de nuestros productos de manera global y agregando una capa de seguridad robusta que permite exponer servicios a la Internet y bloquear amenazas dentro de Las capas de Aplicacion y Delivery.

F% Distributed Cloud Services (WAF) is a strategic ally for positioning our products globally, adding a robust security layer that allows services to be exposed to the Internet and blocks threats within the Application and Delivery layers.

Pros

Redireccionamiento de puertos HTTP a HTTPS forzando connexion Segura de nuestros clientes.
Redirecting HTTP ports to HTTPS, forcing secure connections for our clients.
Manejo de mensajes de Aplicacion para correcto rastreo de las transactions.
Handling application messages for correct transaction tracking.
Gestion de firmas de amenazas de WAF de forma transparente
Managing WAF threat signatures transparently

Cons

Generar dashboards personalizados sobre amenazas
Generate custom threat dashboards
Adicionar Boton de export para El discovery de API Security
Add Export Button for API Security Discovery

Likelihood to Recommend

Es adecuado para proteger portales de amenazas en capa aplicativa y que carecen de seguridad en la capa de transporte, no es recomendable en servicios que tienen mechanismos internos de seguridad entre endpoint y server.

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is suitable for protecting portals from application-layer threats that lack transport-layer security. It is not recommended for services that have internal security mechanisms between the endpoint and the server.

Verified User

Administrator in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

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F5 A Great Ally

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Redireccionamiento de puertos HTTP a HTTPS forzando connexion Segura de nuestros clientes.
Redirecting HTTP ports to HTTPS, forcing secure connections for our clients.
Manejo de mensajes de Aplicacion para correcto rastreo de las transactions.
Handling application messages for correct transaction tracking.
Gestion de firmas de amenazas de WAF de forma transparente
Managing WAF threat signatures transparently

Cons

Generar dashboards personalizados sobre amenazas
Generate custom threat dashboards
Adicionar Boton de export para El discovery de API Security
Add Export Button for API Security Discovery

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Administrator in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience