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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AF5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.N/A

    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AF5's Distributed Cloud API Security provides discovery and deep insights from use of AI/ML. It can be used to block API attacks in real time and eliminate vulnerabilities at their source. The SaaS-based portal enables users to manage and go deep for threat analytics, forensics, and troubleshooting of modern applications.N/A
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    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
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    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Considered Both Products
    F5
    Chose F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    because its integration are very well, making a stronger solutions to cover many more attacks.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    24 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    23 Answers
    Features
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    API Security
    Comparison of API Security features of F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF and F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Feature
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    -
    Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    9.0
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Data Protection00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Audit Logging00 Ratings8.911 Ratings
    Input Validation00 Ratings8.811 Ratings
    Content Filtering00 Ratings8.811 Ratings
    Denial of Service (DoS) Protection00 Ratings9.211 Ratings
    Security Notification and Alerts00 Ratings9.211 Ratings
    API Key Management00 Ratings9.211 Ratings
    Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Protection00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (11 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFF5 Distributed Cloud API Security
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    I believe that in industrial environments like ours where we have to have bare metal devices near the production environment combined with hybrid cloud, that is a good platform. That's a good use case. It optimizes traffic. It helps us stay more secure in our data centers. Now with regards to that are fully operating in the cloud, I'm not really sure if we would make the same decision considering the option that I said to have something that is self-provision to avoid too much management of virtual machines on the cloud. So that's an area of improvement.
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    F5
    I believe it covers everything related to the applications' security aspects, but there are a lot of improvements that need to be made. For example, better granular controls like bot categories listed on the distributed console and a granular URL-based control for the rate-limiting option are needed.
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    Pros
    F5
    • 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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    F5
    • It auto-discovers APIs, even the ones engineers forget to document. Then profiles them without needing changes to our codebase.
    • Shadow API exposure.
    • It's pretty decent at abnormal behavior detection.
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    Cons
    F5
    • 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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    F5
    • More accurate detection of advanced persistent threats (APTs) targeting APIs.
    • A greater emphasis on checking APIs' schema and contract may prevent them from accepting misconfigurations or malicious input.
    • More customized, dynamic, and targeted protection for high-value APIs or high-risk user groups.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    We just love work with f5
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    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security provides robust API protection with solid threat detection, excellent visibility, and seamless integration into our architecture
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    Usability
    F5
    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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    F5
    Great product. Working with F5 for many years, we found the products F5 provided are all cutting edge technology. Although in F5 Distributed Cloud API Security we still have a lot to find out, but we believe this experience will be very good. Especially on the security side. Trust in F5.
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    Reliability and Availability
    F5
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    F5
    Always available
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    Performance
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    The UI is cloud-native and generally responsive. Report generation is easy Integrates with cloud providers
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    Support Rating
    F5
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    Lo hacemos mediante un partner We did it through a partner
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    Implementation Rating
    F5
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    F5
    F5 Distributed Cloud API Security is our company looking forward product. With more and more API is using in both on prem, private cloud, public cloud and multi cloud environment, we as a financial institution, we are keep into the security settings to protect the information. That's the main reason we want to use this product.
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    -Stable data path equals to less crashes -Almost all the features working as expected -Provides more granular controls in allowing false positives -Request evaluation is accurate -Irules feature is a plus
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    F5
    We ran a short POC with Salt. Its data classification and attack replay features were impressive. What held us back was the limited support for hybrid deployments and poor integration into our CI/CD pipelines, as F5 did.
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    Scalability
    F5
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    F5
    Centralized policy management: You can manage API security policies consistently across locations without duplicating effort, which supports scaling.


    API discovery and monitoring at scale: It automatically discovers APIs and monitors them in real time across large and complex environments.
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    Return on Investment
    F5
    • 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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    F5
    • F5 Distributed Cloud API Security mitigates many API-related security threats, including bot attacks, DDoS, data breaches, and unauthorized access attempts.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud API Security uses robust threat detection, machine learning, and real-time monitoring for speedier identification.
    • Reductions in security events result in fewer breaches, reduced downtime, and lower attack remediation costs.
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