We performed a comparison between Azure Front Door and F5 Advanced WAF 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."Has a great application firewall and we like the security."
"I am impressed with the tool's integrations."
"The most valuable feature is that you can implement resources globally. It does not depend on location and ability or something like that. This is to connect clients around the world."
"Rules Engine is a valuable feature."
"You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door."
"I particularly appreciate its load-balancing capabilities as it allows us to manage multiple instances and support a global presence effectively."
"It inspects the traffic at the network level before it comes into Azure. We can do SSL offloading, and it can detect abnormalities before the traffic comes into the application. It can be used globally and is easy to set up. It is also quite stable and scalable."
"The solution is good."
"Provides good protection from attacks."
"The most valuable feature is artificial intelligence and to get extra internal access."
"It can scale."
"It's flexible and powerful, and the users can input their own rules to the system."
"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"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."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"In terms of F5 Advanced WAF's most valuable features, I would definitely say its stability. F5 is one the most stable products. Either as the load balancer or the web application firewall, it is very stable."
"It lacks sufficient functionality."
"This is a relatively expensive solution."
"I'm responsible for the governance and cost control of Azure. I'm not a specialist in any products and therefore I couldn't really speak effectively to features that are lacking or missing."
"My suggestion for improvement would be to enhance the Data Export feature to include specific tables, particularly the Azure Diagnostics table."
"The user interface needs improvement as it is difficult to create the mapping to link the problem with your private address sources."
"The product needs to improve its latency."
"There is room for improvement and they're working on it."
"There's a limitation on the amount of global rules we can add."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"The BNS module needs improvement."
"The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."
"You have to buy another module with an extra license, to have the authentication feature."
"The deployment side is quite complex."
"The overall price of F5 Advanced WAF could improve."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
Azure Front Door is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 10 reviews while F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews. Azure Front Door is rated 8.8, while F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Front Door writes " An easy -to-setup stable solution that enables implementing resources globally and has a good technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". Azure Front Door is most compared with Amazon CloudFront, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Cloudflare, Akamai and Azure Web Application Firewall, whereas F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, AWS WAF and Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our Azure Front Door vs. F5 Advanced WAF report.
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