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F5 Advanced WAF
Read 55 F5 Advanced WAF reviews
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Web Application Firewall (WAF)
May 2024
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Richard Polyak
Easy event identification, highly stable, and customizable
F5 Advanced WAF has benefited our company by protecting us against revenue loss. It's prevented hacks that would have taken us offline or caused us... Read more →
Anonymous User
Active threat detection and adaptive rules are the most valuable for us.
We added a real-time protection layer for all the web-facing applications and APIs in our CI/CD pipelines. As every one of the applications are... Read more →
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Pros
"The best solution for WAF.""The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its ability to have a pool of resources that can distribute your traffic, and that is a plus for me. My company tried to look into a competitor, Imperva, but it was lacking that capability, so F5 Advanced WAF outperforms Imperva.""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 product has valuable features for load balancing, monitoring tools, and HPXpress services.""With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform.""The solution is stable.""The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the easy identification of events and customization. We can pinpoint our settings.""This solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security."

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"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."

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Cons
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy.""The BNS module needs improvement.""They could provide better pricing.""The user interface (UI) seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial.""Its price should be better. It is expensive.""People who want to work with the device have to be pro in Linux""The pricing could be more flexible.""The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."

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"The biggest problem for us was the stability and speed using the first version of Wallarm. Now, it is fine."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is too high."
  • "I think the price is very high."
  • "After buying the program, you just pay for the support every year."
  • "Licensing fees for this solution are paid on a yearly basis."
  • "It's more expensive than other solutions and depending on the modules, there can be additional fees."
  • "F5 bundles up services and the bundle is what you pay for rather than individual components."
  • "Its price is fair. We have done a couple of deals where they were able to give some kind of discount to the customers. The price was initially high for the customers, but after a couple of negotiations, it came within their budget. They were happy with that."
  • "There are various plans available for Fortinet FortiWeb Cloud WAF as a Service, including a trial version."

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  • "​Pricing must be cheaper than the competition and the licensing must be good.​"

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    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about F5 Advanced WAF?
    Top Answer: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.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Advanced WAF?
    Top Answer:The product is not so expensive. It depends on the assets.
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    What needs improvement with F5 Advanced WAF?
    Top Answer:The self-service aspect could be improved. The user interface (UI) also seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial.
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    2nd
    out of 82 in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Views
    12,122
    Comparisons
    9,561
    Reviews
    22
    Average Words per Review
    415
    Rating
    8.6
    33rd
    out of 82 in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Views
    378
    Comparisons
    314
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    Wallarm NG-WAF
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    Overview

    F5 Advanced WAF is a web application security solution for financial and government sectors, e-commerce, and public-facing websites. It offers protection against various attacks, including botnets, web scraping, and foreign entities. The solution can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud and is often used with other security tools. Its most valuable features include DDoS and DNS attack protection, SSL uploading, anomaly detection, and the ability to input custom rules. 

    F5 Advanced WAF has helped organizations to expose more services to the public while providing an extra layer of protection, preventing revenue loss, and securing connectivity.

    Protect any API. In any environment. Against any threats.

    Wallarm is the platform Dev, Sec, and Ops teams choose to build cloud-native applications securely, monitor them for modern threats, and get alerted when threats arise. Whether you protect some of the legacy apps or brand new cloud-native APIs, Wallarm multi-cloud platform provides key components to secure your business against emerging threats.

    -> Robust protection for the entire application portfolio

    Mitigate threats against OWASP Top 10 threats, business logic abuse, bad bots, account takeover (ATO), and more. Get the robust API protection that no other WAF can provide.

    -> Quick integrations

    Setup cross-team workloads via your existing DevOps and security toolchain (SOARs, SIEMs). Setup triggers and noise-free alerts in Slack and other messengers, PagerDuty, and more.

    -> Blocking mode and compliance with no hassle

    Forget issues with false positives. Wallarm’s new libDetection and core signature-less attack detection provide low false positives from day one.

    -> Unparalleled visibility into malicious traffic

    Gain full insights about attacks and attackers in the responsive Wallarm Console. Enjoy the Dashboard, reach search, and reporting capabilities.

    -> Automated Incident Response

    Reduce manual analysis and noise level. Automated Threat Verification can dissect potentially harmful attacks from millions of random scans and report vulnerabilities.

    -> Understand Your Attack Surface

    You can’t protect what you don’t know. Utilize the attack surface and shadow resources to track changes. Identify misconfiguration issues and vulnerable applications and resources.

    Sample Customers
    MAXIMUS, Vivo, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office, City Bank
    Panasonic. Miro. Rappi. Wargaming. Gannett. Omio. Acronis. Workforce Software. Tipalti. SEMRush.
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm34%
    Computer Software Company25%
    Non Tech Company6%
    Media Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Government7%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Insurance Company6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise58%
    Buyer's Guide
    Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    May 2024
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    F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Wallarm NG WAF is ranked 33rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Wallarm NG WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wallarm NG WAF writes "Active threat detection and adaptive rules are the most valuable for us". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Wallarm NG WAF is most compared with Salt Security, Noname Security, AWS WAF, Cloudflare and 42Crunch API Security Platform.

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