Azure Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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![]() Azure Web Application Firewall | Score8.9 out of 10 | N/A | Azure Web Application Firewall, available on Microsoft's Azure, is a cloud-native web application firewall (WAF) service that provides protection for web apps from common web-hacking techniques such as SQL injection and security vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting. | N/A |
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) | Score9 out of 10 | N/A | F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS. | N/A |
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No answers on this topic | 97% Would buy again 129 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 95% Delivers good value for the price 113 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 95% Happy with the feature set 126 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 96% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 95 Answers | |
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No answers on this topic | 95% Implementation went as expected 104 Answers | |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | ![]() F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.3 out of 10 | ![]() F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.3 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Akamai App & API Protector Score8 out of 10 | Akamai App & API Protector Score8 out of 10 |
| All Alternatives | View all alternatives | View all alternatives |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | - | 8.9 |
| Usability | - | 10.0 |
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