F5 Cloud WAF Review
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What is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)?
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of…
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What is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)?
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.
Benefits
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is designed to ease the burden and complexity of consistently securing distributed web apps by delivering:
- Simplified operations: SaaS-delivered WAF that’s set up, deployed, managed and scale across clouds, on-premises data centers, and edge sites.
- DevOps agility + SecOps control: Delivers the programmability that DevOps needs combined with the efficacy and oversight that SecOps mandates, enabling faster application delivery and release cycles.
- Reduced time to resolution: Improves visibility and insight across WAF and DDoS security events, and into app performance, including intuitive drill-down capabilities.
- Comprehensive protection with fewer false positives: Utilizes both signature-based and AI/ML based detection techniques with automatic signature tuning to ensure maximum efficacy and reduced SecOps workloads.
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Features
- Supported: Attack signature engine: Captures Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) plus known vulnerabilities and techniques identified by F5 Labs, including Layer 7 DDoS, threat campaigns, bots, and automated threats.
- Supported: Advanced behavior engine: Leverages AI/ML to monitor and score client interactions, deciphering intent based on the number of WAF rules hit, forbidden access attempts, login failures, and error rates, to help identify an app’s highest priority threats.
- Supported: Service policy engine: Enables micro segmentation and advanced security at the application layer, utilizing IP reputation and allow/deny lists to block clients with known bad TLS fingerprints, ASNs from suspicious countries.
- Supported: Automatic attack signature tuning: Determines if a signature-identified attack is really a threat, helping reduce the number of false positives.
- Supported: Streamlined set-up and management: Deploy through a simple UI or automate via APIs including best- practice default protections and the flexibility to create custom rules.
- Supported: Multi-app dashboards: Observability via a single dashboard with a 360-degree view of app performance and security events across distributed applications.
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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Frequently Asked Questions
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.
Cloudflare, Fastly Edge Cloud Platform, and Imperva Application Firewall are common alternatives for F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall).
The most common users of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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(121)Reviews
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May 20, 2024
F5 Cloud WAF Review
Well, essentially we're trying to manage URLs that come into our environment and use the WAF to assess them to essentially to inspect them and then basically make decisions about whether to forward them. Obviously we keep a copy of it or whether they get blocked under certain policy scenarios.
- It certainly does a good job once we specify and we have it both in line and offline or sideline, but once we define the URL list and continually update that, it does a very good job of capturing and potentially blocking those filter URL.
- I would say over time we want to see improvement in its ability to inspect payloads for certain types of data that they cannot do today.
May 10, 2024
Excellent product
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) has been a dependable and easy to deploy tool that has been keeping our web applications secure. It has advanced features that protects our web applications from known and unknown threats. It is one of the best wad among it’s competitors
- This web application protection software has a dependable customer support team. Moreover, it is easy to understand the features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall).
- It’s easy to integrate
- Easy to understand , has dynamic fritters with emerging security trends
- Dashboard can be improved
May 10, 2024
Becomes easier with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF
Got to have multiple tenants wherein F5 Distributed Cloud WAF has really helped to manage it well. Customers having multiple cloud instances should use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF in their organisation. This helps you to solve multiple applications from at multiple clouds. In current scenario, customer are facing to managing cloud hosted applications which can really be managed to run smoothly by using F5 Distributed Cloud WAF in your organisation.
- Multi Cloud
- Multi Application
- Initial Control
- East to Manage
- Prices
- Technical integrations
- Mitigation
I use the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF to protect many business applications for my customers. In the past, we used to have a on-premises WAF solution that was difficult to configure and manage. Because we have a dynamic environment with more applications coming about every quarter, is important to have easy of configuration and consistent policies deployment throughout our organization.
- Easy of configuration
- Great support
- Threat detection
- Lower Latency
- Improved UI (modern look)
- Better SLAs
May 09, 2024
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF review
Trying to understand the risks that enter my website was extremely simple after using F5 Distributed Cloud WAF. The dashboard was very easy to understand and the user-friendly platform made communicating to management easy. By understanding F5 Distributed Cloud WAF and risks to the organization, I could prioritize next steps withing my organization. It did take some time to onboard the solution, as it was not intuitive to deploy, but the F5 team were very quick to support my IT Team's needs.
- UI dashboard to understand risks and traffic
- Integrations with other platform solutions
- Identify risks
- Implementation
- Integrations with Microsoft
- Ticketing system for support
May 08, 2024
Easy awareness of API use
Identify use of external libs and resources and make sure are reviewed and under control.
- management
- listings
- banned url
- reports
May 08, 2024
product works great
as a WAF the product worked well and was able to easily configure
- load balancing
- detection
- blocking
- the ui at times could be slow
May 08, 2024
Excellent WAF service
this solution help us to protect our web services, the solution stop malicious traffic efectively
- stop web app attacks
- protect APIs
May 08, 2024
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF review
We use WAF for protect web portals with some customers. Right now we feel that the protection needs to be more clear and to be more extensive.
- Speed
- liability
- information
- logging
- reporting
- dashboards
May 08, 2024
With F5 WAF, your life is better
I've been using F5 Dist WAF for my current job. This is a great tool for monitor and protect our internal webs to external as well internal network. I'm confident to say that with F5 WAF, my job is now much easier and and always reply on it for my job.
- Protection
- Security
- Prevention
- UI
May 08, 2024
Review
We use F5 to support legacy systems that otherwise do not have adequate security. I work in Higher Education which often lends itself to aged systems that cannot by upgraded or replaced.
- hiding infrastructure from attackers
- load balancing
- allowing legacy systems to remain viable
- none at this time
May 08, 2024
Best WAF company in the market today!!
F5 is a great product and I would recommend them to my collegeas for any of their WAF needs. Their WAF solution helped stopped several DDOS attacks before they happened.
- DDOS
- OWASP definitions
- ease of use
- more advanced features
- easier for admins to use
May 08, 2024
fantastic product
Load balancer and waf
- api
- web server
- false positive alerts and known payload blocks
April 29, 2024
Amazing F5
We use F5 WAF to secure the services we host over the internet. Sometime we do have issues with SSL encryption.
- DDos Protection
- API security
- SSO integration
April 29, 2024
F5 review
we used WAF as a measure product to secure our web application inside our organisation.It is a very helpful product to isolate and secure all our application.
- secure web application
- to prevent from any malware attack
- to provide the secure environment
- Reliability
- Secure
- User friendly
- Provide secure application
- WAF should use more filter to isolate the paticular issue
- WAF should be detect and filter the malware attack and notify
- WAF should use more secure option
- WAF should work proactive and reactive
April 06, 2024
F5 WAF
Migrate web app attacks and vulnerabilities with comprehensive security controls and uniform policy and observability via SaaS delivered WAF that is quick to set up and deploy, and easy to manage and scale across any environment. And simply app security by seamlessly integrating protections into the development process with core security functionality.
- Easy to use
- Reduce the time
- Save the cost
- Comprehensive protection
- Flexible and agility
- None
- None
March 22, 2024
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF
To protect our domain name
- To protect domain name
- Easier to deploy
- Hybrid
- Have better and detail dashboard
- More customized
March 22, 2024
Try and buy is best choice for your app
Protect our App in any where, quickly deployment and leverage all features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF.
- Easy to deployment to protect your app in anywhere
- F5 Distributed Cloud WAF features is the same Big-IP
- Don't care performance
- One console with BIG-IP on premise
- More Hub (DC) in the world
March 22, 2024
Review
Deploying WAF instances in a distributed manner across multiple locations or
cloud environments to protect web applications and APls.
Configuring security policies to mitigate various types of attacks and vulnerabilities.
Protection against cyber threats: It helps in defending against a wide range of cyber threats, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS),
- Protect against cyber threat
- API protection
- Central management
March 22, 2024
F5 app worlds
It help to prevent attack from public internet
- It help prevent api attack
- It help prevent AI Bot attack
- It help prevent ddos attack
- Less analysis info on dashboard
- Not easy to set up
March 22, 2024
Great
We use XC WAAP and mostly use for the WAF and also API Protection
- it is quick easy using with the WAF template.
- it is powerful in the bot defense
- we can monitor realtime about our application vulnerability
- these can protect our multicloud application and reduce the complex and can do the single pane of glass management.
February 16, 2024
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review
So it's the upgraded version of ASM, which is the actual layer seven protection on applications. So what it does now with the cloud base and the way it's set up, distributed cloud, you have that now. Capabilities in the cloud are what happens. So anytime you need to protect an app or lockdown or do anything with that, that's where it comes into place. For layer seven.
- So if an application is getting attacked, this can protect that application from hackers or DDoS or any of those other areas.
- Actually right now there's not much because it's handling everything we need to within the layer seven suite. Probably just getting it out there more to the customers is the biggest thing. That's where it needs to be improved. Education.
February 13, 2024
All-in-one approach in multiple security vectors
For all types of publications, both critical and internal, security is the first thing taken into account in our organization. Applying all the security layers that the product offers from DNS, WAF, APM I really consider it to be an all-in-one approach in multiple security vectors that should not be lost focus
- integration
- protection
- security
- DNS cost
- Integration simple
February 13, 2024
SImple and effective product!
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) is used to protect our public and private web applications. We were using BIGIP previously, and patching the appliance was cumbersome, having to do it a couple times per year. BIGIP also did not provide much application observability for devs and admin staff. XC, being a WAF-aaS, solves these issues and provides dashboards for understanding web application traffic
- Global Service Policies to push to all web applications
- Up to date attack signature detection
- dashboard to show why requests are being blocked and to help troubleshoot issues
February 13, 2024
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF reduced the complexity of securing our internal and cloud hosted applications
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF helped us from managing a legacy web application firewall that was on premises. It greatly expediated our ability to manage and configure our firewalls. We have a small team and it has made us more efficient. The scope was protecting a website and securing it. The F5 purchase was a great decision.
- Ease of Use
- Security
- Role Based Access
- Scalability
- Modernize GUI
- Dark Mode
- Permissions by User