We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"The decryption is great."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"The user interface was recently changed in one of the latest versions, but we find it to be very good. The change was an improvement."
"Most competitor's environments will have their appliance do a hard stop. This means they weigh traffic from real customers and that affects the overall business experience. F5, on the other hand, uses contextual information to be able to specify what is malicious traffic and what is real traffic. That comes from its pool of intelligence, and from its threat intelligence team."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's pricing and technical support services need improvement."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"The solution needs better stability when it's utilized with virtual solutions."
"We've seen the rise of smaller entities, and their requirements grow by the day. Having the ability to give them appliances that fit their needs in terms of that small or medium-sized segment and the pricing they can handle would be something that's great to see."
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) writes "Excellent DDoS protection with responsive technical support and a straightforward setup". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) is most compared with .
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