We performed a comparison between Corero 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."The most valuable feature of Corero is its ability to handle smaller attacks in terms of the amount of volume and time. You can handle almost 100 perfect of the attacks locally."
"The DDoS protection features are valuable."
"This is a hybrid solution."
"It is a good solution. Its vendor support is the most valuable. It is simple and works well if you have Juniper MX routers."
"SmartWall devices occupy only one-fourth of the width of a rack unit, making them very easy to install."
"It is an agnostic and transparent inline platform, which means that the maximum visibility of the symmetric and asymmetric traffic is available, even allowing bidirectional detection of the attack."
"The protection is very useful."
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"It could use support in Spanish."
"The approach taken by Corero is to partner with other organizations in order to address volumetric attacks that cannot be handled by the hardware installed in the infrastructure. Corero does not have a solution for these attacks, so they are looking for partners to help them manage them. This approach is supplemented by local hardware, but the main focus is on the partnerships. It would be beneficial to have a more complete solution."
"Juniper is known in our country, but it is not very popular. There is also not enough information about Corero. Our enterprise and financial sectors don't know about this solution. They need to provide more information and do more marketing for this solution in our country."
"The product must provide more Layer 7 capabilities."
"Lacks international presence."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"The solution doesn't really meet our requirements for an edge firewall."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"We would have preferred to have support when we first started"
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Corero is ranked 18th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 5 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Corero is rated 8.4, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Corero writes "Effect local attack handling, intuitive interface, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Corero is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Radware DefensePro, Lumen DDoS Mitigation and Radware Cloud DDoS Protection Service, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield, Radware DefensePro and Cloudflare. See our Corero vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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