Item: F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are protecting almost five applications with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF and one of our main applications that redirects user traffic for more than 20 on-prem applications. The WAF provides the compliant security that we were looking for. It provides an easy way of mitigating the false positive issues.It provides an additional layer of security that aligns security for exceptions as well.It provides an easy way of deploying new applications.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It provides the broader insights on the dashboard for user traffic
It provides granular options to allow the user traffic
It inspects the legitmate and non legit traffic efficiently

Cons

Traffic learning is missing like F5 ASM has
BOTs included in their respective categories are missing on the console
URL profiling is missing like Barracuda Waas and WAF have

Return on Investment

IMPROVED SECURITY
PERFORMANCE IS EXCELLENT DESPITE HAVING SECURITY CHECKS
LESS HARDWARE COST

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

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

Other Software Used

F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall

Likelihood to Recommend

-If your datacenter is deployed in cloud then it is best align with WAAP
-For on-prem, better not go with it
-Better if your customers are all over the world

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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Review