We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the F5 Advanced WAF are the enhanced ASM and the performance. Additionally, the usability and effectiveness are very good."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"We can monitor IP locations, but we have constraints from each country. It has a replication feature. Licenses can be shared, taking turns with each license."
"The most valuable feature is artificial intelligence and to get extra internal access."
"F5 Advanced WAF secures our connectivity and combines both the main functions of WAF (balancing and web application security)."
"One of the most valuable features is the Local Traffic Manager."
"There are a lot of good features."
"It's a fairly easy-to-use and user-friendly tool. My administrators and team also like its ability to customize the rules per the requirements."
"The device blocks threats and allows legitimate users to work correctly."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"The product offers high availability."
"The GUI was a valuable feature. It was uncomplicated and easy to use."
"The features that mitigate attacks are very valuable."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"The overall price of F5 Advanced WAF could improve."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"The interface is old-looking, it's not modern, which is why it's not always comfortable to use."
"It's sometimes difficult to customize APIs with F5 Advanced WAF."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"It can be improved by combining the web application firewall (WAF) facility."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Citrix Web App and API Protection, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, HAProxy and NGINX Plus. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Radware Alteon report.
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