F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense in the construction arena
July 08, 2025

F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense in the construction arena

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

To avoid user disruption, consult their team. They will be really helpful especially with the test simulations before you hit live.
We've been dealing with bots creating fake subcontractor profiles to harvest bid data and influence timelines. We are using F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense to automatically filter traffic before it even hits the backend.
Also, many of our partners reuse passwords across platforms. We had a rising trend of bot driven that were hard to distinguish from legit access. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense sorts this out for us.

Pros

  • It plugs into our existing web stack without tearing anything done.
  • I haven't come across a better tool that picks up behavioral mismatch as quick as F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
  • Its js injection approach

Cons

  • I've received complains of false positives on older browsers. I've recently had a pm try to upload a permit using a legacy browser from a jobsite trailer and the bot engine flaaged it.
  • The biggest roi for us has been bid integrity and cost control. I talked about this in the first question. It has improved our bid qualification time by almost half
  • An almost 100 percent reduction in credential stuffing incidents
  • huge savings in time since we are not reviewing the login patterns manually.
Oh their engineers are smart, I give them their flowers. They know the nuanced of nuances every time we reach out about bot behavior.
Onboarding wasn't the smoothest but they gave us really guided deployment support
Clodflare bot management was our other obvious option for us. We tested it on a staging version of our RFQ platform. It was great for broad traffic filtering but had a hard time with nuanced differences between real subcontractors and low volume bots mimickingt human input whereas that's where F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense thrived

Do you think F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense's feature set?

Yes

Did F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense go as expected?

No

Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense again?

Yes

I'll talk about my experience, and they can learn from that. We're actively protecting 8 core web properties and two mobile APIs, with plans to expand our Request for quote system next quarter. We monitor data through their dashboards but also integrate detection logs with splunk for correlation. If these apply to you, then F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense will be a great fit.

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