Item: F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Secure externally facing applications in a large scale Enterprise environment, roughly 15000 applications. Using parent policy standardization allows for deployment at scale to provide a base level of security that is when tuned further for specialized applications as needed.

Pros and Cons

Pros

ease of management with parent policy
logging

Cons

impact, as there is some traffic that is impacted even when in transparent mode
latency added

Return on Investment

its cause impact to multiple applications with significant outages

Usability

While parent policies help simplify the deployment, the UI definitely could be more straight forward and simplified for troubleshooting and tuning

Key Insights

Do you think F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

standard web traffic is great, more specialized traffic not so much. Along with anything that is latency sensitive. It also doesnt segment well as traffic from one protected application can cause the platform as a whole to be impacted and in turn other applications

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