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We performed a comparison between Azure Web Application Firewall and F5 Silverline Managed Services 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.
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Pros
"The integration it has with GitHub is great.""It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure.""The initial setup is easy and straightforward...Azure Web Application Firewall is a scalable product.""It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products.""Azure WAF is extremely stable.""It has been a stable product in my experience.""The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall.""The solution has good dashboards."

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"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides.""The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process.""Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do.""The most important feature is that they have seven firewall protection, to protect our web servers.""The most valuable feature is flexibility.""The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance.""The product’s UI is easy to understand.""F5 technical support is really good."

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Cons
"The documentation needs to be improved.""Azure WAF should not be deployed in the middle of the traffic.""I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered.""The management can be improved.""There is a need to be able to configure the solution more.""Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it.""The support for proxy forwarding could improve.""In Brazil, we have some problems with the phone service that affect our connection with the cloud. However, it isn't common."

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"There is a lot of room for improvement with their tech support. I am not sure F5 Silverline Managed Services can be classified as having tech support.""The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better.""There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution.""F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by adding features that Palo Alto has.""The price is high in comparison to other products.""F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, being a new product in the market or comparatively related to a new product, currently supports less number of PoPs. They should introduce more PoPs. The current number of PoPs that they have is around 10 or 12, which is still relatively less as compared to 2,400 plus PoPs that Akamai offers. The user latency or the number of hops a user needs before reaching the actual web application is less in Akamai because it has its internal fabric to route the traffic. They need to spin up more data to increase its traffic handling capability. They can also include the bot detection capability, though it is a pretty advanced functionality. If they could include DataDome like functionality, that is, bot prediction, then F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall will be top-notch in the market.""We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution.""F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We have an enterprise agreement with Microsoft and the pricing is good."
  • "The price is for this solution is fair and there is a license needed."
  • "The price of the solution depends on your architecture and how you manage it. You can control the cost in Azure quite well. The costs do not directly correlate to expenses in the features we are using."
  • "Azure WAF has price advantages over other WAF solutions. The pricing model is flexible because you pay on a scale based on the level of protection you need."
  • "I give the pricing a nine out of ten."
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  • "F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works based on your bandwidth. They look at the clean bandwidth and do the pricing. 20% of a total pipe would be a clean bandwidth. The list price or a non-negotiated price for F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall would be around $2,200 per application per year for everything that you need. When you get into an enterprise kind of a setup, they negotiate this to the last bit. I would easily take 20% on that, which would be the cost, but it should cover all your Advance WAF features, bot protection, tech campaign, etc. It is built as a package and gives you most of the capability. You don't get the mobile SDK, which is an additional license. Mobile SDK is required only if you're buying or if you have a mobile application, and you are going to instrument F5 or Imperva into your mobile appliance. This anyways would be an additional module. It doesn't come within the WAF, but it is a WAF feature."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better, they are not very flexible. The price of the solution is based on the requirements of the enterprise."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be reduced."
  • "The product’s pricing is reasonable."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The integration it has with GitHub is great.
    Top Answer:The pricing is quite high. It's not cheap. The free version doesn't have the capability a user would need.
    Top Answer:The documentation needs to be improved. It's not ideal. There are multiple deployment options. However, there is a lack of clarity around them. There's no real community to reach out to and no videos… more »
    Top Answer:For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you have to look for other ADC's like F5, Imperva, Radware, Fortinet, etc. 
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    Also Known As
    F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, F5 Silverline DDoS Protection
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    Overview

    Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities. Web applications are increasingly targeted by malicious attacks that exploit commonly known vulnerabilities. SQL injection and cross-site scripting are among the most common attacks.

    To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

    F5's Silverline Managed Services is a SaaS solution delivering DDoS protection, managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, and managed Shape Security Fraud and Anti-bot solutions.

    Silverline services include 24x7 access to F5's Security Operations Center (SOC). F5's expert security professionals use F5 products with state-of-the-art security tools to ensure the best protection possible. As an add-on to Silverline DDoS or WAF services, Silverline Threat Intelligence integrates dynamic lists of threatening IP addresses to give context for policy decisions.

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    City Bank, Ricacorp Properties, Miele, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office
    Top Industries
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    Manufacturing Company29%
    Computer Software Company29%
    Pharma/Biotech Company14%
    Government14%
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    Computer Software Company22%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government6%
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    Financial Services Firm44%
    Non Tech Company22%
    Individual & Family Service11%
    Comms Service Provider11%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    Government8%
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    Small Business9%
    Large Enterprise91%
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    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
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    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 12th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 9 reviews while F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews. Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Prolexic. See our Azure Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services report.

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