F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Reviews

Name: F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
Brand: F5
Rating: 4 (22 reviews)

Vendor: F5

4.2 out of 5

22 reviews
95% willing to recommend

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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is a high-performance, full-proxy network security solution designed to protect networks and data centers against incoming threats that enter the network. Built on F5’s industry-leading BIG-IP hardware and software platforms, BIG-IP AFM provides a scalable platform that delivers the flexible performance and control needed to mitigate aggressive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and protocol attacks before they overwhelm and degrade applications and infrastructure availability.

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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is the #8 ranked solution in top Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions. PeerSpot users give F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most commonly compared to Cloudflare: F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs Cloudflare. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 55% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Richard Polyak

Sr. Architect at NBC Universal

Dec 21, 2022

Our company uses the solution as a data center firewall. It is hard to determine all users within our infrastructure. It depends on systems we put behind the solution. Its internal but also a data center firewall. Sometimes, there are hooks from the solution to our external infrastructure or…

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Richard Polyak

Sr. Architect at NBC Universal

Jun 24, 2022

We use these as our data center firewalls. At the time of our analysis of the systems, they were the ones able to process the large load of traffic that we needed over any other systems out there. So, capacity-wise, these were able to address our needs. We have version 12, version 13, version 14…

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Nabil Magdy

IT security Engineering manager at Banque du Caire

Dec 29, 2022

I am using F5 BIG-IP AFM as a proxy in relation to a code decrypt traffic and analysis for the web application signatures on different published websites in our company. Additionally, I can customize iRules to inspect traffic or redial traffic to another reach. I can use it for text signatures and…

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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) mindshare

As of June 2024, the mindshare of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) in the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection category stands at 1.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Jun 16, 2024

Valuable Features

"The web application firewall has been very helpful. We purchased F5 when we were migrating our applications to the cloud."
"CGNAT is one of its strong areas."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."

Room for Improvement

"NGINX, which F5 purchased, has room for improvement in its features, particularly its load balancing or application load balancing features."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."

Pricing

"As per pricing, I would not say cheap, but little higher than cheap, but not very expensive. So you can say kind of value for money solutions."
"We have purchased a five-year licensing package for the product."
"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution."

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Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

19%

Insurance Company

10%

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For service providers, BIG-IP AFM IPS does even more, protecting the network edge and performing traffic inspection and protocol adherence for prevalent service provider protocols such as SS7, Diameter, HTTP/2, GTP, SCTP and SIP traffic coming into the network over UDP, TCP, and SCTP.

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) was previously known as F5 AFM, F5 Advanced Firewall Manager.