Airlock vs F5 Advanced WAF comparison

"Our customers are more than satisfied with the user experience provided by the product."

"Good dashboard and reporting."

"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."

"The product has valuable features for load balancing, monitoring tools, and HPXpress services."

"There are a lot of good features."

"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its grand unity of the implementation, where you have the freedom to configure based on how it affects your use case or your organization. With the default setting of implicit deny, you can gradually start defining and deploying the tool to align with your environment, whether it is outdated, recent, or futuristic. This allows you to customize the solution to protect you from threat actors. You have the ability to define what the advanced threat act should do - whether it should alert, deny, or both - and it will deliver based on your configuration. Unlike other online solutions, F5 Advanced WAF provides flexibility to deliver to your unique environment the way you want."

"The solution's most valuable features include application DDoS protection, bot blocking, and HTTP header verifications."

"F5 technical support is excellent. They are experts who always provide the right solution, and they understand the problem. Their response and resolution times are good."

"This solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security."

"The tool must be simplified."

"Users would like to have an additional IP intelligence license to handle this within WAF itself without needing to engage with the SOC team."

"The GUI interface can be confusing due to similar-looking tabs for policy building, traffic learning, and event logs."

"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."

"F5 Advanced needs to improve its bot protection. The solution needs to have machine learning to learn the behavior of the customer to recognize the human versus the bot. This is a difficult feature to explain to our customers. I would like documentation about the bot feature to make it easier for the customer to understand."

"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."

"The Sandbox integration feature could be improved."

"The BNS module needs improvement."

"F5 Advanced WAF needs better integration within the application, like remote dashboards."

"The tool is cheap."

"The way we deployed it, I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing."

"I am not sure about pricing but licenses are available on Google."

"F5 bundles up services and the bundle is what you pay for rather than individual components."

"The price of F5 Advanced WAF could improve it is expensive."

"I don't have any issue with the pricing of this solution."

"The pricing for F5 Advanced WAF is comparable to a Rolls-Royce. Its price is a bit high when you compare it with other vendors. F5 Advanced WAF is a bit expensive. The customer was on a three-year plan and it was around $560,000."

"It is a little bit costly, but it has all the features that are required."

"Its price is fair. We have done a couple of deals where they were able to give some kind of discount to the customers. The price was initially high for the customers, but after a couple of negotiations, it came within their budget. They were happy with that."