We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Radware Alteon 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."F5's user-friendly interface and seamless integration stand out as the most valuable features for us."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"It is also quite intuitive and user-friendly. They have several webinars that are actually like labs. You can use these webinars to learn about how to use all features of the product."
"The most valuable features of the F5 Advanced WAF are the enhanced ASM and the performance. Additionally, the usability and effectiveness are very good."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the security features and the protection."
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"The integrated application protection provided by Alteon is very good. It really helps to avoid false positives in some cases. It provides important granularity to avoid a situation in which security or cybersecurity scenarios escape us."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The product offers high availability."
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."
"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."
"The user interface (UI) seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"I would like to see the API Protection improved."
"The solution is tedious. It takes a lot of discrete settings so one needs to get detailed and granular when they use the solution. It takes you a whole lot of energy and concentration to configure. It needs to be much more straight-forward, like other web solutions."
"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."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"The solution could be more robust."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 54 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Citrix Web App and API Protection, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, HAProxy and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Radware Alteon report.
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