#1 most frequent
United States of America
31.8%7 installations of 22
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Who Buys & Uses F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
#1 most frequent
Finance and Insurance
36.4%8 installations of 22
“F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)”
#2 most frequent
Information
18.2%4 installations of 22
“With F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) we have benefitted with More accurate and agile deployment”
#3 most frequent
Retail Trade
9.1%2 installations of 22
#2 most frequent
India
13.6%3 installations of 22
#3 most frequent
Argentina
9.1%2 installations of 22
Pros
- Robust DDoS protection and application availability
- Effective real-time bot detection and mitigation
- Simplified application security across diverse environments
Cons
- Complex and unintuitive UI/UX with a steep learning curve
- Challenges in policy configuration, tuning, and managing false positives
- Cost and pricing transparency, especially for smaller businesses
F5 Distributed Cloud - a view from an InfoSec standpoint
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.
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
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
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.
A great alternative to Akamai products
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are currently in testing phase of our deployment, thus far everything is working as we want it, the one thing we wanted is to get the graphs to have by the minute vs by the 10 minute span in time -- when looking at he current screen it does not give precise info as it does averages over time. If my app went down for 50 seconds, I would like to have a clear way to explain it
Pros
- It works like on-prem WAF
- It gathers lots of statistics
- It is easy to run through the GUI to build the config
Cons
- When looking at graphs we need the time span to show by the minute, currently only shows in 10 minute slots
Return on Investment
- TCO
- Security simplicity ( I coined that )
Alternatives Considered
Akamai Prolexic, Akamai Edge DNS, Akamai CDN and Akamai Bot Manager
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review
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.
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.
