A WAF is a WAF, unless you want one that fits into your existing f5 ecosystem.
November 23, 2022

A WAF is a WAF, unless you want one that fits into your existing f5 ecosystem.

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

Modules Used

  • VoltStack
  • additional F5 BIGIP modules

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF

Not within my organization but a previous one I was employed at and asked for some consulting help to protect some private cloud resources while also utilizing their existing I series and associated f5 ecosystem investment.

Pros

  • Familiar capabilities, terminology, and concepts to other hardware/appliance-based solutions
  • Detailed logging (or log shipping in this case) provided troubleshooting advice on passed traffic; this was not security related.
  • Easy to configure existing McAffee Nitro SIEM with existing templates for the product

Cons

  • All my concerns are probably part of Big-IQ, which the customer did not have (single pane of glass)
  • Accelerated time to value as it was a requirement for a workload being provisioned on that cloud
  • As an existing f5 customer, access to their solutions integrator (GridZero) made the sizing, licensing, purchases, and downloading of the software very quick and painless
There was not much internal to internal traffic, it was both employee internal access and Internet consumers at the same time.
Not at this particular customer and my current customer is only consuming open source (read: free) so F5 Distributed Cloud WAF will not be on their radar at this time.

Do you think F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)'s feature set?

Yes

Did F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) again?

Yes

I believe F5 Distributed Cloud WAF would be an ideal solution for companies that already have an F5 investment. It would entirely depend on their 'cloud,' what they can control, and their expertise. I have done a lot of work on Kubernetes clusters, and I find Traefik with plugins can perform most of what I need (adding letsencrypt with cert-manager provides all my certificate needs).

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