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F5 SSL Visibility [EOL] vs Symantec SSL Visibility Appliance comparison

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F5 SSL Visibility [EOL]
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Symantec SSL Visibility App...
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
SSL/TLS Decryption (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1508217 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, User Services at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
Secure, highly reliable, and scalable
Given our long, good track record with the solution, I would advise if you can afford this solution then purchase it. It is a great solution. As for rating the solution, nothing is a 10 because there is always something to improve. I rate F5 SSL Visibility a nine out of ten.
cto543714 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Feature-rich, works as advertised, and sends decrypted traffic at close-to-line speed to products that can't decrypt
The ability to do SSL chaining is most valuable. It provides the ability to send decrypted traffic at close-to-line speed to products that can't decrypt. So, it can take the decrypted traffic and send it to your IPS or your other tools to be able to see what's inside of that traffic for DLP or malicious content detection. That's the whole beauty of it. It was probably the elephant in the room for the longest in terms of SSL decryption. It can get the high band, especially for places that had a lot of decryption to do, such as big finance companies, big telcos, etc. It is a really good product. It has different features and things built into it. Feature-wise, they're the elephant in the room.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"Its security features are very good; it has normal security, and then it has add-on security with a separate license, which I find very good, and it is also very stable."
"Every scenario we have put the solution through it has been able to handle it one way or another."
"Given our long, good track record with the solution, I would advise if you can afford this solution then purchase it."
"Just the very functionality of the load balancer has been very useful to our organization."
"One of the most valuable aspects of this solution is that it's easy to deploy without a lot of complications."
"It is a really good product, and I don't have any problems with it."
"Since implementing this solution, we have enhanced our detection rates and our proxy."
"This is the easiest solution and I did a little bit of research before and I could not find another solution that does this."
"The ability to do SSL chaining is most valuable. It provides the ability to send decrypted traffic at close-to-line speed to products that can't decrypt. So, it can take the decrypted traffic and send it to your IPS or your other tools to be able to see what's inside of that traffic for DLP or malicious content detection. That's the whole beauty of it. It was probably the elephant in the room for the longest in terms of SSL decryption. It can get the high band, especially for places that had a lot of decryption to do, such as big finance companies, big telcos, etc."
"The most valuable feature is the Fail-to-Network (FTN) option, which means that if for any reason the appliance goes down then there is no interruption in traffic."
 

Cons

"The installation is complex but not more than other competitors."
"It can have more features on the cloud side because we are moving a lot of servers to our cloud. Its support and scalability also need improvement. Currently, their technical support is slow, and its scalability is complex. It should have integrated SSL decryption with some special machine algorithm to tell us about certain kinds of security issues. Currently, it can decrypt, but it should also provide more information. It can have some kind of algorithm to inform us about how the packets should or shouldn't be. It should inform us when certain things are happening. When users are going to the internet and it sees an abnormal behavior or abnormal type of traffic, it should alarm us about this. It should tell us that there is some kind of strange traffic, and it shouldn't be like that. Currently, it lacks in this aspect."
"The price of the solution is a little high."
"Their technical support is not good in comparison to other network companies. They take a long time to respond."
"The most difficult thing that we have to deal with is SSL Hardening. Vulnerabilities are found in various ciphers, getting them removed, identifying them, et cetera."
"These days, I have not been happy with technical support."
"We haven't been satisfied with their support for around two months now."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"When it comes to tech support, they have challenges everywhere."
"From the operations perspective, they have to come up with easier ways so that the operational guys can easily manage it."
"They're working on being able to handle more traffic. They're working on bigger boxes full of throughput because now networks are going to 40 gigs and 100 gigs. So, trying to keep up with the bandwidth demands is where things are being pushed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is a little high."
"Licensing fees are billed annually and we purchased a three-year license."
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