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F5 Silverline Managed Services Primary Use Case

Sanchit Makkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Sanchit Makkar
Dns architect at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
F5 Silverline Managed Services is our main solution for protecting our application from DDoS attacks and providing web application firewall services to our enterprise network.

A specific example of how we have used F5 Silverline Managed Services in a real-world scenario involves a customer who has internet-facing applications with a global presence. We created a solution to protect their public assets and public websites against malware, ransomware, and denial of service attacks by deploying and routing all the traffic of their web application via F5 Silverline Managed Services.

We also use the WAF services of F5 Silverline Managed Services, wherein we perform an HTTPS redirect of our public application through a WAF proxy. This helps to provide security and defend against the top 10 threats, including zero-day vulnerabilities, using advanced policy management.

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Mohan Janarthanan - PeerSpot reviewer
Mohan Janarthanan
Associate Vice President at Novac Technology Solutions

The major reason to use F5 Silverline Managed Services is to protect my applications and web application firewalls on my cloud applications and cloud-hosted applications that I want to protect. I am using F5 Silverline Managed Services only as a web application firewall.

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Sushruth Ram - PeerSpot reviewer
Sushruth Ram
Product Management Consultant at Mafoi Strategic Consultants
I primarily use F5 Silverline Managed Services as a cloud security system for our website. It provides a Web Application Firewall, which helps us detect malicious bots and malicious attacks on our website and also helps us keep our email secure, which protects us from phishing emails. I basically use it as a cloud security system in our organization. View full review »
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Gaurav_Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Gaurav_Mishra
Senior Security Consultant at kyndryl

Working with F5 Silverline Managed Services provides similar functionalities to Radware, having multiple tools like DNS, DDoS, LTM, and other capabilities. LTM is for the ADC and F5 Silverline Managed Services WAF as well, but it is very simple.

I previously worked with Radware. Currently, I work with F5 technology.

I am currently working with F5 technologies including the ADC tool and application delivery tools, focusing on load balancing, application firewall, DNS, and SSLo. There are multiple tools and technologies, each having their modules. All operating systems are the same but license-based, distributing the service.

F5 Silverline Managed Services is globally recognized, and most companies are using F5 tools for application delivery, firewall, and application firewall, similar to Radware. Another tool that is in demand is SSLo, which distributes the service and manages SSL offloading tasks. This is beneficial.

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reviewer2855808 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2855808
Lead Engineer at a renewables & environment company with 10,001+ employees

My main use case for F5 Silverline Managed Services is securing the public facing web application against DDoS attacks as well as OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.

A specific example of how I use F5 Silverline Managed Services to protect my web application involves deploying it in our environment, where the SOC team recommends blocking malicious traffic, and based on that recommendation, we are blocking critical vulnerabilities, fixing them, and identifying them.

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TVargas
Cloud Support at a security firm with 51-200 employees

F5 Silverline Managed Services has been used to ensure business continuity and protect customer-facing applications from downtime and security breaches. During a volumetric DDoS attack on an e-commerce portal in my company that occurred during a seasonal sales event, F5 Silverline Managed Services performed very well. Normally, this kind of traffic spike would overwhelm the service and cause downtime, but F5 Silverline Managed Services kept the customer-facing application online even under heavy attack traffic.

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Mithat Bulut - PeerSpot reviewer
Mithat Bulut
Network And Security Consultant at TD SYNNEX

I work with F5 Silverline Managed Services, and I'm doing the presales engineering of that product, which is a WAF solution.

F5 Silverline Managed Services, a Web Application Firewall solution, is used for protecting web services. Organizations put that product in front of web services to load balance the traffic and create a secure environment, especially for web services operating in HTTPS.

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AhmedMansour
Design & Delivery Senior Network Security Architect at Qiddiya Investment Company

I use F5 Silverline Managed Services for application delivery and security. I have extensive experience with products like LTM (application delivery controller), GTM (global traffic load balancing), ASM, and APM. These products enable me to distribute back-end server traffic, customize and control HTTP headers, and provide security measures like health checks and DNS security.

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DejanBlagojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
DejanBlagojevic
Presales Engineer at Exclusive-networks

Our primary use case for this solution is DDoS and firewall protection. 

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Rifqi Pratama Nugraha - PeerSpot reviewer
Rifqi Pratama Nugraha
Assistant Manager Application Security Team at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution for config or application security policies on web application firewalls. It's to protect applications that are internet-facing. There's port protection as well. 

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it_user1401660 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1401660
Co-Founder and CTO at Cyber-CP Ltd

We are using this product for a major airline whose traffic is routed via F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. All B2C sites are behind F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. The data part is basically to Akamai for CDNs and to F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall for WAF capability. The resources are hosted on AWS or Azure. For parameters, we have another F5 AWAS module, which intercepts the traffic once it is inside the cloud parameters, and then the data goes to the backend application pool. Every B2C traffic gets inspected on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. Every HTTP profile is inspected on the Advanced WAF module, which is again F5 on-premises.

We are also deploying this solution for another client in the Middle East. We're basically deploying the architecture. We have F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall and the Check Point firewall as the next-generation firewalls. All HTTP traffic is via F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, and it is routed back to the Check Point firewall for IPS and malware inspection because F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does not do that. Non-HTTP profiles go via the Check Point firewall.

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Archana Heeralal - PeerSpot reviewer
Archana Heeralal
Security Engineer at Amazon

We use the solution for protection from Layer 3, Layer 4, and Layer 7 DDoS attacks and for web application firewalls.

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Rusdi Budiman
Head of Infrastructure at AIA

We use it for thing application deployment for our application, which is known as CBN. Most of the traffic is put to Silverline.

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AyodejiAbimbola - PeerSpot reviewer
AyodejiAbimbola
Senior Client Sales Manager at TIGER LOGIC

F5 Silverline Managed Services is a distributed web application firewall. 

Silverline is a cloud service and the community works with the web application firewall on-premise. You can integrate F5 Silverline Managed Services with your on-premise web application firewall.

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Rifqi Pratama Nugraha - PeerSpot reviewer
Rifqi Pratama Nugraha
Assistant Manager Application Security Team at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We use this product as part of our security solution for the application layer.

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Lane Lu
Senior System Engineer at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case of F5 is for a WAF. I used to use F5 to do some double load balancing. And now, for my current use case, we primarily use the F5 Silverline as an application firewall to protect our web servers. 

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it_user1235250 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user1235250
Senior Security Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

My team is providing services for this solution.

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Reza Torabi
Senior Network Engineer at PECCO

There are many use cases, but the most important one is due to the Central Bank policy which states that we must make it only accessible within Iran. It restricts people from making transactions outside of Iran.

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Manager512a - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager512a
Manager at a comms service provider

This solution is used for load balancing.

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Buyer's Guide
F5 Silverline Managed Services
October 2026
Learn what your peers think about F5 Silverline Managed Services. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: October 2026.
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