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F5 is great for government agencies
November 30, 2022

F5 is great for government agencies

Neill Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF

We use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF as an extra layer to our security. Obviously, with our inbuilt applications, the code has its security piece. But if we can use the web application firewall at the layer seven-level, that can give us that extra level of protection. And a great use case for this was the recent Log4j problem. When Log4j was announced, F5 immediately updated their signatures, and we could apply them to a web application firewall. That gave us immediate protection in the short term while we tried to analyze our entire estate and patch. And then we could see requests instantly getting blocked for that Log4j piece.
  • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
  • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
  • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
  • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
  • I think, actually, and it's maybe a standard thing for F5 - the GUI is still a little bit dated. It's never really modernized, so it's not an F5 Distributed Cloud WAF thing. It's more of an F5 kind of piece, but the WAF is buried into that. So it's a little bit, although we do have the Silverline WAF, and that's a bit more modernized. But yeah, the overall UI interface could maybe be modernized a little bit.
  • We are an existing customer, so we know we get great value and a great level of service and support. It effectively outperforms the other competitors.
Great success in managing our unique and complex hybrid applications both on-premise and on the cloud. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF protects both of those endpoints.
We have F5 Distributed Cloud WAF across hybrid environments protecting our cloud and on-premise applications.
As mentioned before, we do a very competitive proof value and run numerous competitors against each other. Then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.

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 would say it's an extra layer of security. As I always say, you can't put a price on cyber security.

A lot of companies, government organizations, or private enterprises, end up throwing money at cybersecurity after an event occurs. The reputational and other damage is too late. This product is great for layer 7 piece of security.