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F5 Shape Security vs Radware Bot Manager comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

F5 Shape Security
Ranking in Bot Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Fraud Detection and Prevention (6th)
Radware Bot Manager
Ranking in Bot Management
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Bot Management category, the mindshare of F5 Shape Security is 22.8%, down from 23.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Radware Bot Manager is 3.4%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Bot Management
 

Featured Reviews

Nikolay Dimitrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to configure and blocks bot attacks for web users
The solution is deployed on the F5 cloud. The solution's real-time analytics help you see what has been blocked. It helps to see whether the attack category was an automation attack or a fake browser. F5 Shape Security has a normal dashboard. We are doing F5 Shape Security migrations for 30 customers. F5 Shape Security uses Javascript. For a lot of competitors, the Javascript can be reverse-engineered by attackers to bypass the protection. F5 Shape Security has machine learning authentication of the Java script. If you had hacked it, the encryption would have been changed. It's really hard for attackers to reverse engineer the F5 Shape Security JavaScript. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Cristopher Torres - PeerSpot reviewer
It is easy to add applications and it improved our organization by preventing attacks
The solution provides a rating of the sophistication of the bot attack. For example, the solution indicates whether it is a first or second-generation bot, allowing us to assess the level of sophistication of the attack. Additionally, we can view the public IP and region from which the attack originated. These are the most valuable features. I also appreciate the dashboard, which allows me to see how many attacks occur daily, as we are typically attacked daily. The Bot Manager portal is very user-friendly. I often forget which portal is for the application firewall and which one is for the Bot Manager. It would be beneficial if Radware unified these into one portal or one URL with links to everything. Once we get there, it is easy to use and the graphics are intuitive. We can see the strengths of the attacks and a list of our protected applications. The Bot Manager portal is user-friendly, intuitive, and aesthetically pleasing. The integration with Radware Cloud WAF is extremely easy.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of configuration."
"F5 Shape Security's most valuable feature is performance."
"The support from Radware is excellent."
"It's very good at categorizing the different types of bots, whether they're malicious or good. Bot is a very generic term. It could be good, it could be bad. Quite a lot of legitimate businesses are using bot-type services to just scrape the internet for information."
"I like how Bot Manager automatically detects when a suspicious user attempts to download content from your website."
"Bot Manager is an excellent tool for analyzing traffic to detect suspicious patterns. It uses artificial intelligence to identify malicious behavior."
"I like how Bot Manager intelligently detects automated tools. If it allows some requests through, identifies them quickly, and contains them effectively. It has an advantage over other solutions because it understands much more quickly that it is an automated process and begins to mitigate it a little more quickly."
"The solution provides a rating of the sophistication of the bot attack."
"The most valuable feature is the bot management itself and the way it has stopped bots from scraping our site, with its AI mechanism. Its ability to detect and mitigate bots is really good."
"Bot Manager's behavioral modeling and intelligence help us distinguish between harmless and malicious bots."
 

Cons

"The tool's price is high."
"I want the solution's custom exclusion rules to be more granular."
"Radware Bot Manager is a little costly but not too expensive. It's in the middle."
"Radware's pricing is generally expensive. This could be a deterrent for smaller organizations."
"It would be good to have more integrations. It's very hard to get data in and out of their portal. It doesn't have any integrations with any of our tools, such as our SIEM tool. It only depends on emails. Having that tied into the warehouse, SIEM, and maybe our on-call tools would be very helpful because it would just give us a holistic picture of everything."
"While the interface is simple, they could add the ability to upload lists of IPs in an Excel spreadsheet. If there are two or three IPs, it's easy to add them. You have a graphical option to log in and register your IP, but if you want to upload 50 IPs, it becomes more complicated because there are 50 steps. Also, Radware could simplify the implementation of SDK, which is a bit complicated. Radware should work on making the SDK part more efficient."
"We're missing links to their modules for installation and configuration. They have most of them available already, but there were situations for mobile applications that, when they released a new version, were not stable. We had to ask them to send a link by email, and that could be made accessible in the portal."
"It would be beneficial to have a link from the WAF to the Bot Manager portal available so we do not have to log in again."
"I would like more ability to configure custom rules. Currently, I need to open a ticket with support to request a specific rule that isn't available in the console. In some cases, I don't have visibility into the logs or they are too complicated to analyze."
"Bot Manager is doing its job, but I think the behavioral modeling could be improved by adding fingerprinting and automation. Remediation should be automated so that it doesn't require any intervention by the user."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is moderately priced."
"We pay a fair price for each application we wish to protect."
"We negotiated a decent price with Radware that fits into our budget. It's a five-year license, so we get a good price and don't need to renew for several years."
"It is fairly priced."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
31%
Healthcare Company
9%
Retailer
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
Retailer
14%
Computer Software Company
14%
Media Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What makes automation distinct as an attack vector?
An aspect that sets automation apart as an attack vector is its ability to mimic legitimate user behavior and evade traditional security measures. Automated attacks can simulate human-like interact...
How does F5 Shape Security’s system work? What are its components?
One key component is the Shape Defense Engine. It sends telemetry to the Shape AI Cloud, a highly secure data system where machine learning algorithms analyze the data to detect patterns of automat...
Can F5 Shape Security protect both our web and mobile applications? Are there any specific features for mobile app protection?
F5 Shape Security can protect web apps as well. It’s a bit complicated, but goes something like this: The platform employs a JavaScript-based collection of client signals to gather data on user beh...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Radware Bot Manager?
Radware's pricing is generally expensive. This could be a deterrent for smaller organizations.
What needs improvement with Radware Bot Manager?
When looking at Radware Bot Manager, I noticed instances of false positives where legitimate activities were mistakenly detected as attacks. However, our team has weekly calls with Radware to addre...
What is your primary use case for Radware Bot Manager?
We use Radware Bot Manager for protecting against bot attacks, specifically to distinguish between bot attacks and legitimate traffic.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Shape Security
ShieldSquare, ShieldSquare Bot Mitigation and Bot Management
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Wells Fargo, Loblaw, JetBlue, Zoosk
Pearson, Zulily, Purch, Groupe PSA, Yellow Pages, Axel Springer, Dorman, Penske, SeLoger.com, trovaprezzi.it
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