F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Score9 out of 10

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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#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

60.0%

3 installations of 5

“Adicionar Boton de export para El discovery de API Security Add Export Button for API Security Discovery”
— Network Security Manager, Banca Afirme (1001-5000 employees)

#2 most frequent

Information

40.0%

2 installations of 5

“More accurate and agile deployment”
— Security services, Ikusi (201-500 employees)

Julie Pierce View profile

SOC Engineer in Information Technology at Quantum Flairs (51-200 employees employees)

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

Kuro San View profile

IT Consultant in Information Technology at CSIT (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

Avadhesh Washisth

Sr Infra Admin in Information Technology at Nets (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

Chi Wai Hui

Lecturer in Corporate at Kaplan (51-200 employees employees)

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

Return on Investment

It provides overall security to all my apps

Usability

Fernando Garcia

Dir.Comercial in Information Technology at Veriopoint HN (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, our clients' requirements are focused on improving security and customer experience. To achieve this, it is necessary to have technologies like those of F5 Distributed Cloud, providing all the experience of its cutting-edge technologies that allow us to deliver quality and secure applications and services that the business requires.

Actualmente los requerimientos de nuestros clientes estan enfocados en mejorar la seguridad y la experiencing de sus clientes , para esto es necesario disponer de technologies como las de F5 distributed Cloud., aportando toda esa experiencia de sus technologies de vanguardia que permiten entregar aplicaciones y servicios de calidad y seguridad que require el negocio.

This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.

Pros

Deploying Fast and Secure Applications
Despliegue de Aplicaciones rapidas y seguras

Cons

More user-friendly control panel
El panel de control mas amigable

Return on Investment

Deliver applications in shorter deployment times
Entregar de aplicaciones en menores tiempos de despliegue

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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

What is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)?

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