Apigee Sense vs. F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Apigee Sense
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Apigee Sense from Google (acquired in late 2016) protects APIs from unwanted request traffic, including attacks from malicious clients. Apigee Sense analyzes API request traffic, identifying patterns that might represent unwanted requests.N/A
F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Score 9.3 out of 10
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F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.N/A
Pricing
Apigee SenseF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Apigee SenseF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Enterprises
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NGINX
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User Ratings
Apigee SenseF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
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9.4
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User Testimonials
Apigee SenseF5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
Likelihood to Recommend
Deployment is very easy and the configuration is excellent and the Apigee Sense is ready to go. The platform has an effective centralized Cloud monitoring capabilities and the data visual analytics that are generated are useful to the business production. Excellent portals and the features are easy to custom when starting with the platform and the project documentation tools are reliable.
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Advanced WAF is well suited for protection against account enumeration attacks, protection against known and new increasing attack vectors through out of the box attack signatures and threat campaigns. Also, up to date and accurate IP intelligence database to block based on known IP reputation.
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Pros
  • Great documentation and Automation solution.
  • Effective Proxy management.
  • Data visual analytics easy generation.
  • Simple reporting functionalities.
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  • So the product definitely is helping us for sudden attacks through DDOS, some injection ingestion into UI URLs, and definitely it's capturing those and I definitely see that as an advantage for us. They can stop the hackers from using our endpoints.
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Cons
  • The Apigee Sense deployment to the new users is not an easy operation.
  • Visualization analytics for complex project data.
  • Cloud multiple services management.
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  • The UI for events. E.g., clicking the "Accept" button does nothing.
  • Traffic learning suggestions are often very incorrect. We were originally suggested to use "Automatic" learning, and had to completely scrap the policy due to the suggestions.
  • "All in one" dashboard for viewing application URL/parameter overrides per policy.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We just love work with f5
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Usability
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Most* of it is very intuitive and easy to use. The "Help" section is fairly fantastic. See some of my other comments about things like the "Traffic Learning" section being wildly wrong sometimes, and also the event logs with UI buttons that don't do anything. Overall though, it's an excellent product.
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Alternatives Considered
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I believe that in the case of Big-IP F5, it has a lot of power, a lot of features including the VPN features and also the evaluation of security posture of the devices that connect through VPN. That's very solid and that's something that is not found in all the WAF solutions and so I haven't seen that in Azure.
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Return on Investment
  • The Cloud different services easy Automation using Apigee Sense is incredible.
  • Functional Proxy management tools.
  • Data analytics capability is the best.
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  • In our case it has been great because the pricing is just right for all the features that we have on the platform and the flexibility. In fact, we acquired another license last year, so that's something that we're interested in. We are currently moving towards the cloud with our ERP systems and eliminating the IBM platform, so we would like to see that F5 virtual option available on Azure.
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