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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

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136 Reviews and Ratings

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.

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A Smart Choice for Business Safety with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) help us in enhacing the security of our online websites and social media pages and make our digital presence much stronger. We interact with lots of personal data of our customers like names, number, address details and many more but this software helps in keeping these data safe from hackers and fraudsters.

Pros

  • The chats and conversation done through this plaform is safe and protected
  • The plaform improves our payment activities with the help of PCI DSS along with complined regulations
  • Not only security it makes our websites more efficient and lagfree for better customer experience

Cons

  • The main challange is it's dashboard complexity as it becomes very difficult for non-technical person to understand and search for critical functionalities without tapping complex settings
  • The software can be integrated with lots of CRM and scheduling softwares and this is great but the data flow is something which bothers us in longrun
  • If they can have s real time security system that can reach out to our customers when, possibility of threat occurs then that would be great

Return on Investment

  • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) was set up easily through this software that helped us in keeping our customers data safe
  • It lowers the security risks which saves a lot time and maney that earlier we used to expend during data breaches and websites down time
  • It secure both our website and mobile app from which our customers interacts from us

Alternatives Considered

AWS Firewall Manager

Other Software Used

AWS Firewall Manager

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

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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.

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