We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable features of the F5 Advanced WAF are the enhanced ASM and the performance. Additionally, the usability and effectiveness are very good."
"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."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"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."
"I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the easy identification of events and customization. We can pinpoint our settings."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"You have to buy another module with an extra license, to have the authentication feature."
"The interface is old-looking, it's not modern, which is why it's not always comfortable to use."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"The overall price of F5 Advanced WAF could improve."
"It's sometimes difficult to customize APIs with F5 Advanced WAF."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 54 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 37th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Symantec Web Application Firewall 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WAPPLES.
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