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F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall Review
September 15, 2023

F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall

We use this primarily as a web application firewall for many of our applications which includes a lot of endpoints.
  • So the product definitely is helping us for sudden attacks through DDOS, some injection ingestion into UI URLs, and definitely it's capturing those and I definitely see that as an advantage for us. They can stop the hackers from using our endpoints.
  • We would like to see more use of this product in such a way that we can insert JavaScript so that we can understand the bot detection very well. I understand that it does bot detection, with some constraints, but we have to expand that bot detection very well to do fraud detection much better just like Google Recapture.
  • Second is the WAF product. Sometimes we are getting false positives just because in the scope of the applications we had to stop certain headers, HTP headers, and we would like to see if there is some kind of a way to enhance the product to use machine learning to do this automatically or suggest to do it automatically in the future.
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  • This has been good overall. It has a positive impact on the security of our applications. I don't have necessarily a measurement on ROI, but it definitely definitely added to the security of our products.
Currently, we are using our IPS tools and IDS tools, but for the applications, we also use endpoint detection and those kinds of tools. But the firewall is actually a very important tool rather than those products. Because it exactly happens at the layer that we really want it to be and it's very important. So I would say for sponsored application security, it's top tier.

Do you think F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall's feature set?

Yes

Did F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall again?

Yes

It's well-suited for UI-based applications. We found it less appropriate for APIs, not that good.