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Cisco Firepower 9300 Series vs. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Firepower 9300 Series

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Firepower 9300 series is presented by the vendor as a carrier-grade next-generation firewall (NGFW) ideal for data centers and high-performance settings that require low latency and high throughput. With it, the vendor providdes, users can deliver scalable, consistent security to workloads and data flows across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.N/A

    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AF5 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
    Pricing
    Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Editions & Modules
    Firepower 93000
    17,000-30,000
    per appliance
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    129 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    113 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    126 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    104 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Cisco Firepower 9300 Series and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Feature
    Cisco Firepower 9300 Series
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    -
    Ratings
    Identification Technologies9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Tools9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    VPN9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    High Availability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Proxy Server9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (71 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Firepower 9300 SeriesF5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    While Cisco Firepower 9300 Series is an enterprise-grade Firewall solution, it might be less suited for businesses with restricted IT budgets. Still, Cisco Firepower 9300 Series meet all cybersecurity and compliance requirements and is the best option available at this moment in my opinion.
    Incentivized
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    F5
    It helps our website to manage well during high traffic seasons and Holidays. This plaform manages the website overall performance and also protect it against DDoS attacks during these High demand period. It also protects transactions done on our website for the booking of services and products buying by our customers and keep their data safe.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Tracking and containing of malwares and potential threats
    • Monitoring over network, users, and appliances
    • All-in-one centralized security dashboard
    • Threat control
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    F5
    • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
    • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
    • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Frequent video tutorials about Firepower 9300 Series
    • Flexible subscription licenses
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    F5
    • Better integration between different F5 solutions
    • Fail over between devices feels unstable if there are thousands of objects attached to the traffic-group. Needs to be more simpler.
    • We have seen issues with malicious user detection where we have used open protocols due to legacy applications, and have been caught with legitimate traffic being blocked.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    We gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Seems no issue
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    Performance
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    N/A
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    F5
    It provides fewer false positives and a more granular approach to eliminating them, allowing us to focus on threats. Also, with the need to secure both on-premise and cloud-based web applications, we can only use Azure on the cloud part, but we still need to cover on-premise apps with WAF, so we would need to double the time to deploy and manage. Also, its flexibility of deployment scenarios offers us a faster time to deploy WAF without adjusting the app delivery process to WAF's existence.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Met yearly compliance requirements
    • Boosted trust in investors
    • Secured IT environment
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    F5
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
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