We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"The solution uses AI to protect against botnet attacks."
"The most valuable features of the F5 Advanced WAF are the enhanced ASM and the performance. Additionally, the usability and effectiveness are very good."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"My favorite feature of F5 is the ability to play around with the ciphers. I also like the ability to have an immediate display of the support IDs when a real blockage occurs. The protection offered is great."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"Feature-wise, they are always cutting edge and up-to-date. Many features aren't available via competitors. There's always a lot of enhanced critical features that just aren't available through anyone else, or, if they are, are too lightweight."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"There is a gap in report management."
"The solution is tedious. It takes a lot of discrete settings so one needs to get detailed and granular when they use the solution. It takes you a whole lot of energy and concentration to configure. It needs to be much more straight-forward, like other web solutions."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"I would not expect traffic details to pass through the web application firewall across the length of the whole application. I think that there is a web application where it can let the application function without traffic going in into the WAF."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"It's sometimes difficult to customize APIs with F5 Advanced WAF."
"They should work on the virtualization of NGINX."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Citrix Web App and API Protection, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, HAProxy and NGINX Plus. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Radware Alteon report.
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