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100% willing to recommend
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We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Virsec Security Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features.""It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included.""F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies.""Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks.""The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices.""It's scalable and very easy to manage.""There is no need to worry about updating signatures because WAF will automatically update the signatures for you.""The solution uses AI to protect against botnet attacks."

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"We use the solution for Zero-day protection."

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Cons
"F5 Advanced needs to improve its bot protection. The solution needs to have machine learning to learn the behavior of the customer to recognize the human versus the bot. This is a difficult feature to explain to our customers. I would like documentation about the bot feature to make it easier for the customer to understand.""F5 Advanced WAF needs better integration within the application, like remote dashboards.""I think the deployment templates can be better.""You have to buy another module with an extra license, to have the authentication feature.""One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy.""The deployment side is quite complex.""The reporting could be clearer and embedded to include our movement data.""The user interface (UI) seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial."

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"The tool's dashboard needs to load since it is not responsive and takes time to load."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is too high."
  • "I think the price is very high."
  • "After buying the program, you just pay for the support every year."
  • "Licensing fees for this solution are paid on a yearly basis."
  • "It's more expensive than other solutions and depending on the modules, there can be additional fees."
  • "F5 bundles up services and the bundle is what you pay for rather than individual components."
  • "Its price is fair. We have done a couple of deals where they were able to give some kind of discount to the customers. The price was initially high for the customers, but after a couple of negotiations, it came within their budget. They were happy with that."
  • "There are various plans available for Fortinet FortiWeb Cloud WAF as a Service, including a trial version."
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  • "I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:F5's user-friendly interface and seamless integration stand out as the most valuable features for us.
    Top Answer:The customer service could be improved.
    Top Answer:Hi Julia - I've been with Virsec as the Sr. Director, Product Marketing for the last three quarters and I have never seen a competitive opportunity arise versus Contrast. Perhaps the confusion lies in… more »
    Top Answer:We use the solution for Zero-day protection.
    Top Answer:I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.
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    180
    Rating
    7.0
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    Virsec
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    Overview

    F5 Advanced WAF is a web application security solution for financial and government sectors, e-commerce, and public-facing websites. It offers protection against various attacks, including botnets, web scraping, and foreign entities. The solution can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud and is often used with other security tools. Its most valuable features include DDoS and DNS attack protection, SSL uploading, anomaly detection, and the ability to input custom rules. 

    F5 Advanced WAF has helped organizations to expose more services to the public while providing an extra layer of protection, preventing revenue loss, and securing connectivity.

    Virsec Security Platform (VSP) is an enterprise cybersecurity solution that continuously protects application, web and host workloads against advanced cyber threats and neutralizes zero-day exploits with zero dwell time (milliseconds). The Virsec Security Platform (VSP) aligns with Zero Trust Architectural approaches and presents a portfolio of compensating security controls that automate the enforcement of runtime execution of authorized processes, scripts, libraries and dependencies that harden Windows and Linux Host OS (Operating System) server, application, and web workloads at runtime.

    Sample Customers
    MAXIMUS, Vivo, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office, City Bank
    Broadcom, Allstate, Department of Homeland Security
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm34%
    Computer Software Company25%
    Non Tech Company6%
    Media Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Healthcare Company22%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Government10%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
    Buyer's Guide
    Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    April 2024
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    F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 54 reviews while Virsec Security Platform is ranked 25th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 1 review. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Virsec Security Platform 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 Virsec Security Platform writes "Helps with Zero-day protection ". 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 Virsec Security Platform is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, CrowdStrike Falcon and Trend Vision One - Cloud Security.

    We monitor all Web Application Firewall (WAF) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.