Cisco Firepower 9300 Series vs. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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Cisco Firepower 9300 Series | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | The 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/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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| Small Businesses | SonicWall NSA Series Score8.5 out of 10 | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies | Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Score9.4 out of 10 | ![]() F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.3 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Score9 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 | 9.0 | 8.9 |
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