We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) 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."It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"F5 Advanced WAF secures our connectivity and combines both the main functions of WAF (balancing and web application security)."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its ability to have a pool of resources that can distribute your traffic, and that is a plus for me. My company tried to look into a competitor, Imperva, but it was lacking that capability, so F5 Advanced WAF outperforms Imperva."
"There is no need to worry about updating signatures because WAF will automatically update the signatures for you."
"We can monitor IP locations, but we have constraints from each country. It has a replication feature. Licenses can be shared, taking turns with each license."
"In terms of F5 Advanced WAF's most valuable features, I would definitely say its stability. F5 is one the most stable products. Either as the load balancer or the web application firewall, it is very stable."
"There are a lot of good features."
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"Fastly (Signal Sciences) integrates and tags the intermittent traffic based on patterns. It generates signals and provides them in a dashboard where we can view them and decide whether to allow or deny traffic. It's a more advanced and easy-to-navigate dashboard."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily."
"When configuring a web application firewall using Signal Sciences, we configure a rule whereby no one except a few people can access the application."
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"The solution should include protection against web page attacks like what is available in FortiWeb."
"People who want to work with the device have to be pro in Linux"
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"There is a learning curve that extends the time of implementation."
"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"Fastly don't support caching for China users. That's the only feature lacking compared to Akamai."
"The areas that could be improved in Signal Sciences include the effectiveness of rules, as many didn't function optimally and required custom rule-writing to address bypasses for WAF."
"Even if we create some custom rules, Signal Sciences cannot capture some of the malicious traffic."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is ranked 28th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) writes "Offers Varnish Configuration Language (VCL) and provides enhanced dashboards, making it easy to identify and allow or deny traffic based on the signals it provides". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is most compared with AWS WAF, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) report.
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