F5 Advanced WAF vs F5 Distributed Cloud Services comparison

"It is configurable via API."

"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."

"The integration of Cloudflare with Cloud Suite is its most valuable feature."

"The product has a valuable security control functionality."

"Cloudflare has positively impacted my organization by making it easier for me to handle and set up DNS for multiple clients; I can easily go in and access their accounts, make changes they need, and it's a one-stop shop."

"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."

"Cloudflare is cheaper compared to Azure WAF, which I have considered before."

"The stability of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall deserves a perfect 10 out of 10."

"Provides good protection from attacks."

"The web application firewall itself is most valuable. It provides positive security and negative security. In negative security, it blocks a task such as cross-site scripting, code injection, etc. In positive security, it lets you specify and enforce things, such as the parameters allowed in username and password fields and the number of characters allowed in a field."

"F5 Advanced WAF secures our connectivity and combines both the main functions of WAF (balancing and web application security)."

"The best solution for WAF."

"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."

"With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform."

"The level of configurability that I get with F5 Advanced WAF solution is immense, and I have to be a bit aware of how it works and all of its features, but at the end of the day, it is all about the administration expertise that I will require to have and use it to my liking based on the kind of services that I have onboarded on my solution itself."

"It can scale."

"F5 Distributed Cloud Services is the market leader in load balancers and manages traffic really well."

"The main benefit is Web App Security, offering a complete security package from DDoS to web application firewall, API protection, and bot mitigation."

"F5 is known for being the best load balancer in the market. Customers with an existing module can easily adopt additional modules without investing in new hardware."

"Technical support from F5 is good compared to Cisco and HP."

"In a multi-cloud or distributed cloud, there are many protection possibilities from data to web application or API protection, including bot mitigation."

"F5 Distributed Cloud Services provides a single unified console for security operations, network operations, and DevOps across all environments."

"The blocked logs are difficult to read at times."

"They need to improve their support because getting a response for basic requests took around 48 hours, which is too long."

"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."

"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."

"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."

"We have noticed some latency when the call goes through the firewall. That could be improved."

"A key challenge arises when dealing with numerous integrations with HVAC systems. Depending on the specifics, there might be some configuration mismatches, which necessitate specific support."

"The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."

"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."

"The product could be more user-friendly for administrators."

"It's a powerful tool yet can be complex for new users."

"It should be a little bit easy to deploy in terms of the overall deployment session. One of our customers is a bit unhappy about the reporting options. Currently, it automatically deletes event logs after some limit if a customer doesn't have any external Syslog server. It is a problem for those customers who want to review event logs after a week or so because they won't get proper reports or event logs. They should increase the duration to at least a month or two for storing the data on the device. F5 is not a leader in Gartner Quadrant, which affects us when we go and pitch this solution. Customers normally go and take a look at such annual reports, and because F5 is currently not there as a leader, the customers ask about it even though we are saying it is good in all things. F5 is not known for something totally different or unique. They were a major player in ADP, and they are just rebranding themselves into security. They should improve or increase their marketing as a security company now. They have already started to do that, but they should do it more so that when it comes to security, customers can easily remember F5. At the moment, if we say F5, load balancing comes to mind. With rebranding and marketing, all customers should get the idea that F5 is now mainly focusing on the security part of it, and it is a security company instead of load balancing. This is the first solution that should come to a customer's mind for a web application firewall."

"Its price should be better. It is expensive."

"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."

"On the features I wish existed, Big-IP Advanced WAF is primarily an on-premises solution and in that solution, there are not enough features that need to be there to protect API-based applications."

"The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF. There are some problems, mainly from the perspective of implementation and customer expectations, which sometimes differ from reality."

"For small players, it is completely not worth it."

"Last year there was a downtime of 30 minutes across the cloud distributed console, and that was the only impact observed."

"The pricing could be adjusted to better meet the needs of typical customers in regions like Poland, where the product is considered too expensive."

"The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF."

"For small players, it is completely not worth it."

"The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."

"It is not too pricey."

"The solution's pricing option needs to be more transparent for enterprise clients."

"The solution is expensive."

"We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

"Licensing fees for this solution are paid on a yearly basis."

"The pricing is too high."

"I rate F5 Advanced WAF's pricing a three out of ten."

"I would rate the pricing as seven out of ten"

"F5 Advanced WAF pricing structure should be adjusted to meet the need of small to medium-sized companies."

"A yearly license for F5 Advanced WAF is expensive."

"As far as the pricing of F5 Advanced WAF I would rate it a four out of five depending on what features I am looking for. Imperva is more expensive."

"It's more expensive than other solutions and depending on the modules, there can be additional fees."