We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Sucuri based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The decryption is great."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"The protection is very useful."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IP's."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"The most valuable part is the analytics and visualization."
"The initial setup was straightforward. Straight forward because the plugin can simply be installed and then it does its job. It's not complex, there is no learning curve. The online scan is simple, you put in the website address and the scan gives us a report on the browser itself. It's simple to use."
"Domain name scanning since it allows us to scan all our domain names and determine whether it has malware or if is reported as phishing."
"I use it as a WAF, which is basically a web firewall to monitor and block traffic to our web server."
"It significantly eases the workload and streamlines the initial setup required to protect a website."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"We would have preferred to have support when we first started"
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"Sucuri could provide help for specific security alerts in-line instead of requiring users to search for it in the help section."
"The main improvement I would like to see is support for .NET applications. If they could include this feature, I would include more sites in the protection."
"I would rate this solution an eight out of ten. The reason is that we have found sometimes customers or Google saying that there is something wrong with the website but Sucuri says that the site is clean so we do have to look at the site manually which means that the Sucuri scan does not pick up anything and everything."
"Confident score: Currently it does not have one and there are cases that most websites flagged are false-positives."
"In terms of improvement, the cost factor is always there."
"It would greatly benefit customers if they implemented an online chat or messaging system for quicker assistance."
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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 Sucuri is ranked 18th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 6 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Sucuri is rated 8.4. 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 Sucuri writes "Simple solution and good WAF". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas Sucuri is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, SiteLock, Comodo cWatch and StackPath WAF. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Sucuri report.
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