We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 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 most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the security features and the protection."
"There are a lot of good features."
"It can scale."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the balancer and you can change policies very easily."
"iRules are quite appealing when it comes to F5."
"It's flexible and powerful, and the users can input their own rules to the system."
"Very easy to implement and works well."
"Feature-wise, they are always cutting edge and up-to-date. Many features aren't available via competitors. There's always a lot of enhanced critical features that just aren't available through anyone else, or, if they are, are too lightweight."
"The solution's stability is pretty good."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is brand image and recognition and the application delivery controller."
"BIG-IP LTM's most valuable feature is that it allows you to seamlessly add more servers without impacting your application's configuration."
"It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."
"What we like best about this solution is its stability. It is extremely stable."
"Secure and scalable traffic management solution for applications. Good for bigger environments."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) improves the resilience and quality of the application itself, the speed and the user experience for the application. The data that the users need from the application is actually acquired faster. So, it provides faster data acquisition."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"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."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"There is a gap in report management."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"I would like to see a better interface and better documentation compatibility with other products. It's more complicated with OWASP."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"My only point of contention would be that it is a little pricey."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"Its GUI could be a bit better. Other than that, it's already pretty good. We don't use it in a high-performance environment. So, we don't really care so much about too many features."
"BIG-IP LTM's sandboxing integration could be improved."
"The UI could be improved."
"Based on my experience using F5 and by only taking into consideration the last seven years, I have found that the reporting mechanism is bad."
"A more hybrid approach would be beneficial for users."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 31 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 44 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.4, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Great support, helpful documentation, and is user-friendly". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, AWS WAF and Azure Front Door, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, NGINX Plus and Radware Alteon. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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