Item: F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall
Rating: 10
Author: Roger Bauer

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The web application firewall is a layer seven inspection engine to check for malicious traffic and malware and viruses that could be tunneled inside of a secure packet session. And the ASM module allows us to detect and block or allow conditions as needed to make the application function.

Pros and Cons

It is one of the better products that protects against the OAuth top 10. It will do SQL injection blocking, cross-site scripting, and other OAuth top 10 protections.

I'd like to see the licensing model streamlined instead of having this, plus, plus this, plus this to get a working product. I had to go back to the sales team several different times to get a fully deployed product.

Return on Investment

It's made us a lot more secure and we're able to report on the functionality of it, on how much it's actually doing to protect us. And it has resulted in lower amounts of web traffic because we're keeping the bad actors away and not processing their data.

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited to be sitting on the edge, protecting the inbound traffic and securing the edge, making it less likely to have a data breach. And I would say it's less likely to be used on internal only traffic. It can be used there, but it's quite expensive to use that for everything inside of an organization.

F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall Review

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall