F5 Advanced WAF vs Symantec Web Application Firewall comparison

"The solution is stable."

"F5 technical support is excellent. They are experts who always provide the right solution, and they understand the problem. Their response and resolution times are good."

"F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."

"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."

"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."

"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the balancer and you can change policies very easily."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."

"Despite a few issues, F5 Advanced WAF is performing well for me."

"The best feature of Symantec Web Application Firewall is that it is very easy to use, and the deployment and implementation processes are really easy."

"The best feature of Symantec Web Application Firewall is that it is very easy to use, and the deployment and implementation processes are really easy."

"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."

"The interface is user-friendly."

"The setup was straightforward."

"The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."

"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."

"The Sandbox integration feature could be improved."

"I would like to see the API Protection improved."

"This solution can be made more user-friendly."

"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."

"It should be a little bit easy to deploy in terms of the overall deployment session. One of our customers is a bit unhappy about the reporting options. Currently, it automatically deletes event logs after some limit if a customer doesn't have any external Syslog server. It is a problem for those customers who want to review event logs after a week or so because they won't get proper reports or event logs. They should increase the duration to at least a month or two for storing the data on the device. F5 is not a leader in Gartner Quadrant, which affects us when we go and pitch this solution. Customers normally go and take a look at such annual reports, and because F5 is currently not there as a leader, the customers ask about it even though we are saying it is good in all things. F5 is not known for something totally different or unique. They were a major player in ADP, and they are just rebranding themselves into security. They should improve or increase their marketing as a security company now. They have already started to do that, but they should do it more so that when it comes to security, customers can easily remember F5. At the moment, if we say F5, load balancing comes to mind. With rebranding and marketing, all customers should get the idea that F5 is now mainly focusing on the security part of it, and it is a security company instead of load balancing. This is the first solution that should come to a customer's mind for a web application firewall."

"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."

"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."

"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."

"There's room for improvement in Symantec Web Application Firewall by introducing AI into their dashboard so that we can query the dashboard and fetch data insights, similar to querying ChatGPT for answers."

"There's room for improvement in Symantec Web Application Firewall by introducing AI into their dashboard so that we can query the dashboard and fetch data insights, similar to querying ChatGPT for answers."

"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."

"The way we deployed it, I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing."

"There is a perpetual license that comes with your hardware. There is also an additional fee for support."

"It is a little bit costly, but it has all the features that are required."

"There are different licenses available to use F5 Advanced WAF, such as BT, ASM, and LPM."

"I think the price is very high."

"After buying the program, you just pay for the support every year."

"I rate F5 Advanced WAF's pricing a three out of ten."

"Licensing fees for this solution are paid on a yearly basis."