We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."My favorite feature of F5 is the ability to play around with the ciphers. I also like the ability to have an immediate display of the support IDs when a real blockage occurs. The protection offered is great."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."
"This solution inspects your traffic and based on that, automatically create distinct qualities for you, so you can add this to the policy already created. That's what I like most."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"F5 Advanced WAF secures our connectivity and combines both the main functions of WAF (balancing and web application security)."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"Since we are using this tool for protection purposes we really appreciate the hybrid security abilities; the main idea here is that we powerful protection our application needs."
"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."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"The delay times on firmware patches and software updates could be better and improved."
"I would say their graphical interface, the GUI. I don't like the GUI as much as before."
"There is a gap in report management."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the reporting. It's a bit difficult to populate, them. If you're not so familiar with the functions, such as where to find the logs and other settings."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"There is a need for expanded licensing terms and options. There's also a need for improved and more agile customization features. The user needs to be able to manage each policy as required; the functionality needs to empower the user. There should be a complete suite of desktop provider policies available to users. Overall, it needs to be more user-friendly."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is ranked 43rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall writes "Offers Application Protection Against Web Attacks". 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), whereas NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is most compared with .
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