Competitors like Barracuda Akamai Cloudflare and Imperva cannot compete with BIG IP WAF
Updated July 17, 2025

Competitors like Barracuda Akamai Cloudflare and Imperva cannot compete with BIG IP WAF

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

We are protecting financial application using BIG IP advanced WAF

Pros

  • BOT Protection
  • Dos Protection
  • Layer 7 Protection
  • Cookie Security
  • Request Evaluation

Cons

  • Data Safe module
  • Via UI customized response page feature should be available for restricting the status codes like 4xx and 5xx
  • Every URI should have a unique Json/Xml profile
  • Increased revenue due to more number of business vendor applications are deployed without paying any extra cost to F5 and more productivity came out
  • There is no negative impact as of now
-Features working without any issues
-Features align with the customer needs
-Top notch availability of deployed applications
-Wonderful support
-Granular controls over security features

-Stable data path equals to less crashes
-Almost all the features working as expected
-Provides more granular controls in allowing false positives
-Request evaluation is accurate
-Irules feature is a plus

Do you think F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF's feature set?

Yes

Did F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF again?

Yes

- I believe where the layer 7 protection is must and user data should be inspected to protect user and resource confidentiality, BIG IP WAF is must.
-Where only traffic need to routed without any inspection, BIG IP is less required

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