We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Analytics and its attack mitigation capabilities are valuable features of the solution."
"We use it not only for DDoS detection and protection, but we also use it for traffic analysis and capacity planning as well. We've also been able to extend the use of it to other security measures within our company, the front-line defense, not only for DDoS, but for any kind of scanning malware that may be picked up. It's also used for outbound attacks, which has helped us mitigate those and lower our bandwidth costs..."
"Valuable features include simple and centralized management of user access and capabilities, as well as Web 2.0 interactive attack alerting, traffic visualization, and mitigation service control."
"Its scalability is big. It is for large deployments of big organizations and service providers."
"In the GUI, the packet capture is a very good option, as is the option to block an IP address."
"Using standard BGP, NetFlow and SNMP ensure wide compatibility. There are also peering traffic reports that can help identify upstream peering opportunities. The ATLAS aggregation service allows us to contribute to the global DDoS data and benefit from overall trends."
"Our customers are very happy when we provide them with the interface... They can check how many attacks they have faced and how many attacks have been blocked."
"There are a number of valuable features in this product, like Cloud Signaling and Threat Intelligence feeds."
"It is stable."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"The protection is very useful."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"The decryption is great."
"Because we had some routers that were somewhat old, they were not integrated with Arbor. They did not support the NetFlow version that Arbor was running. That was a challenge. We had to upgrade the routers. Some backward-compatibility would be helpful."
"Arbor DDoS could improve out-of-the-box reporting, it could be better."
"They should improve the reporting section and make it a little bit more detailed. I would like to have much better and more detailed reports."
"When it comes to some false positives, we need to tweak the system from time to time. There is room for improvement when it comes to the actual mitigation because of some false positives."
"The solution's IT support needs improvement."
"It is an expensive product, so there is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Arbor's SSL decryption is confusing and needs external cards to be installed in the devices. This is not the best solution from an architectural point of view for protecting HTTPS and every other protocol that is SSL encrypted."
"The following areas need improvement: opening and tracking support tickets, online support resources, software upgrades/updates and replacement media, and event management guidelines."
"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"The solution doesn't really meet our requirements for an edge firewall."
"F5 BIG-IP AFM can improve the reporting interface in relation to advanced troubleshooting depending on CLI. They should have enhanced troubleshooting with the use of GUI."
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Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS, Corero and Akamai App and API Protector, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro. See our Arbor DDoS vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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