We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition and Security Onion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two AWS Marketplace solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The integration capabilities of the product are easy to use, and there is no complexity involved in it."
"The tool's investment is less than a physical device."
"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."
"The features that I like include LTM and Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."
"It has DoS layer 7 protection, which not many vendors have."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"On-the-go upgrades are an option that the tool currently lacks, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The tool has limitations with respect to code and RAM."
"I have a specific issue with the network interface connector, the NIC. We're limited to a maximum of two NICs in a virtualized environment. It's a limitation of the tool."
"F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is a heavy system that needs a lot of CPU, memory, and hard disk."
"BIG-IP could improve in supporting microservices, for example, in Docker and Kubernetes environments."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
"The product is not easy to learn."
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is ranked 7th in AWS Marketplace with 5 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 1st in AWS Marketplace with 3 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is rated 8.4, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition writes "Offers easy-to-use integration capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is most compared with SOCKS5 Proxy Server with Web Panel, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Graylog. See our F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition vs. Security Onion report.
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