#1 most frequent
United States of America
31.8%7 installations of 22
What is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Who Buys & Uses F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
#1 most frequent
Finance and Insurance
36.4%8 installations of 22
“It definitively improved the security and efficacy in our internal systems”
#2 most frequent
Information
18.2%4 installations of 22
“More controlled applications and simplified management<br><br>Aplicaciones mas controladas y gestion simplificada”
#3 most frequent
Retail Trade
9.1%2 installations of 22
#2 most frequent
India
13.6%3 installations of 22
#3 most frequent
Argentina
9.1%2 installations of 22
Pros
- Robust Layer 7 DDoS protection
- Easy configuration and deployment for security policies
- Effective prevention of security incidents and data breaches
Cons
- Limited AI and automation for advanced rule setup and detection
- Complex user interface and dashboard navigation
- Initial configuration and deployment can require extensive knowledge
When Rule sets aren't enough F5 Distributed Cloud WAF brings the brains
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The big problem it mainly solves for us is zero day and unknown attack vectors. Right now every customer facing app and all our internal admin portals run behind F5 Distributed Cloud WAF. We've also wired it into our SIEM and SOAR tools to enrich alerts with traffic metadata and auto-initiate playbooks.
Pros
- Identifying exposure risks
- Mitigating bot and automation abuse
- The superb dynamic inspection capabilities
Cons
- Policy testing in pre production still requires some finesse. Maybe a sandbox environment with traffic replay built in would go a long way.
Return on Investment
- 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
Alternatives Considered
Cloudflare
Other Software Used
Splunk SOAR, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Operations Platform, Atlassian Jira
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Reviews
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
To secure, monitor and manage traffic in the web applications and APIs.
To address problems like manual and slow response to threats, DDOS, and applications and API security risks.
Scope of use case includes securing enterprise web apps, providing security, metering, and routing at API gateways.
To address problems like manual and slow response to threats, DDOS, and applications and API security risks.
Scope of use case includes securing enterprise web apps, providing security, metering, and routing at API gateways.
Pros
- API protection
- Real-time analytics and threat Intel
- Easy deployment
Cons
- To reduce cost for small businesses
- To reduce learning curve for basic use case
- To have a wider community support
Return on Investment
- Increases response time to threats using ML-based detection, auto-mitigation, and fast policy updates.
- Protects against OWASP bot attacks, and 0-day vulnerabilities.
Alternatives Considered
Azure Web Application Firewall
Other Software Used
Cloudflare Zero Trust Services
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using this product in one of our project & it’s really best user experience & working fine.
Pros
- Real time bot detection
- Device finger printing
- Automatically mitigates malicious traffic
- API Security
Cons
- Complexity of policy configuration
- Rule visibility
- Pricing transparency
Return on Investment
- Reduced risk of data breaches
- Application availability
- Lower total cost
Alternatives Considered
(EOL) Cisco CloudCenter
Other Software Used
Tenable Nessus
Simplify my life
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have legacy application which does not have easy solution to protect. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF makes our life easier.
Pros
- Easy to understand rules
- Logs to enable troubleshooting
Cons
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Return on Investment
- It provides overall security to all my apps
Usability
Protect your web applications, protect your data, protect your availability, and protect your integrity!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
This product gives us the ability to protect our web applications from attacks from the internet. This will help strengthen the overall security posture of our organization.
Pros
- Protect against malicious attacks
- Give us visibility into vulnerabilities associated with our cload applications
- Provide our blue teams with valuable threat insights.
Cons
- More streamlined advanced AI capabilities. Sometimes the AI fails to provide answers.
- More simplified less cluttered screens and menus. Too many modules and windows to navigate through. Consider reducing the complexity of the overall application.
Return on Investment
- Mitigation of potentially deadly attacks.
- Greater confidence in our web facing apps and their associated data security and integrity
- Increased availability of our systems
Alternatives Considered
NetScaler
Other Software Used
Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, SentinelOne Singularity, Proofpoint Advanced Threat Protection, IBM Security QRadar EDR, BlueCat Integrity (Address Manager + DNS/DHCP Server)
