We performed a comparison between Cloudflare Web Application Firewall 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."The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."
"We extensively use the solution every day. The solution is very stable; we haven’t seen any glitches."
"The integration of Cloudflare with Cloud Suite is its most valuable feature."
"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."
"The product has a valuable security control functionality."
"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"The security features are valuable. The particular feature we use is called OWASP."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"Very easy to implement and works well."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the overall capabilities, there is not a comparable solution on the market."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"Provides good protection from attacks."
"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"The web application firewall itself is most valuable. It provides positive security and negative security. In negative security, it blocks a task such as cross-site scripting, code injection, etc. In positive security, it lets you specify and enforce things, such as the parameters allowed in username and password fields and the number of characters allowed in a field."
"If they add logs history within the Cloudflare offering, that would be a great benefit."
"The accuracy of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall could be improved by reducing the number of false-negative alerts."
"The blocked logs are difficult to read at times."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should include port forwarding features."
"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."
"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."
"The reporting could be more granular."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"The delay times on firmware patches and software updates could be better and improved."
"The Sandbox integration feature could be improved."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews while F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas 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). See our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Advanced WAF report.
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