We performed a comparison between Check Point DDoS Protector 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."From my experience, the best part of this solution is behavioral DDoS protection. The DDoS Protector can monitor the traffic, and based on the behavior, it can decide which traffic is malicious and which traffic is regular. It works dynamically, and it's a very good solution."
"Check Point DDoS Protector is a product that uses machine learning and behavior analysis."
"One of its most outstanding functions is the zero-day DDOS."
"Currently, we have fewer incidents with viruses. We improved our IQ operations and security using this solution. Our company's better after using Check Point."
"As our business continues to grow, we can grow this product simultaneously."
"It uses several layers of security."
"Check Point detects and automatically mitigates attacks, which helps our organization protect our infrastructure."
"This comprehensive tool validates and exploits complex vulnerabilities that other vendors fail to find and resolve to increase security."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"The protection is very useful."
"It is stable."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"The solution should greatly improve its interface."
"I would like applications for Android and IOS where we can follow the events, and, if necessary, make changes."
"The Check Point support language is only in English."
"For a long time, there was no software version of R80.10 available for the Check Point DDoS Protector software appliances, and we had to stay on the quite outdated R77.30 version."
"The mitigation part could be improved."
"Check Point DDoS Protector does not provide the ability to upload data for the blacklist/whitelist in bulk, which is one of the big points that need to be improved to facilitate configurations."
"It does not provide the capability to upload data for blacklisting/whitelisting in bulk."
"Check Point should develop a DDoS solution because they don't have one and we need to use another solution, in our case, Imperva. This is a problem because we need to have two firewalls. We would like to only have one solution because it would improve the management, we would have fewer incidents, and we wouldn't need to talk to more than one person for support."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"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."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
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Check Point DDoS Protector is ranked 12th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 11 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Check Point DDoS Protector is rated 8.0, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point DDoS Protector writes "Good support and effective against SSL attacks, but the dashboard is complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Check Point DDoS Protector is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare and Fortinet FortiDDoS, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro. See our Check Point DDoS Protector vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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