F5 Advanced WAF Reviews

Vendor: F5

4.3 out of 5

65 reviews
98% willing to recommend

364 followers

What is F5 Advanced WAF?

F5 Advanced WAF is a web application security solution for financial and government sectors, e-commerce, and public-facing websites. It offers protection against various attacks, including botnets, web scraping, and foreign entities. The solution can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud and is often used with other security tools. Its most valuable features include DDoS and DNS attack protection, SSL uploading, anomaly detection, and the ability to input custom rules.

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F5 Advanced WAF is the #2 ranked solution in top Web Application Firewalls. PeerSpot users give F5 Advanced WAF an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 65 most recent F5 Advanced WAF reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.4. F5 Advanced WAF is most commonly compared to Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks: F5 Advanced WAF vs Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. F5 Advanced WAF is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 63% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 15% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Ahmed Moamen

Senior Security Solutions Architect at Orange

F5 offers a versatile solution that can be integrated with APM in cases where integration with an external IDB is needed. It is useful for authentication backup if the on-prem directory service is unavailable. Additionally, its WAF functionality is valuable for protecting applications from attacks. It is a versatile and strong solution that's easy to understand and deploy.

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Phani Sundar Mandarapu

Enterprise Architect at Collins Aerospace

It's a valuable tool to protect web servers exposed to the external network. With numerous web applications running on Apache or IIS servers, the F5 Advanced WAF's threat detection capabilities protect the network before traffic reaches those servers. It's a fairly easy-to-use and user-friendly tool. My administrators and team also like its ability to customize the rules per the requirements.

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Richard Polyak

Sr. Architect at NBC Universal

Generally, F5 Advanced WAF initial setup is straightforward. However, our environment was more complex and it took us a little more time to customize the solution to where we needed it to be. Additionally, the customization didn't rectify everything. We had to do customization to a certain event to prevent attacks that it wasn't catching, but that might not necessarily be the solutions' fault. It could be more of our setup than the solution's fault and not being able to run the latest version or the newer version could be more of a limitation on our ability to put it in the right place. The whole implementation to have the solution run at the level we wanted it to take approximately five months. Our company's environment is one that we can't put a canned solution in front of. Our environment, cannot have a canned solution that might fit everybody else because of how customized this environment is. It does need a lot of tuning to meet our environment's requirements. I rate the initial setup of F5 Advanced WAF a three out of five.

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F5 Advanced WAF mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of F5 Advanced WAF in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category stands at 11.9%, up from 10.6% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Web Application Firewall (WAF)	Dec 18, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 18, 2024	Download
Comparison	F5 Advanced WAF vs AWS WAF	Dec 18, 2024	Download
Comparison	F5 Advanced WAF vs Microsoft Azure Application Gateway	Dec 18, 2024	Download
Comparison	F5 Advanced WAF vs Fortinet FortiWeb	Dec 18, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks	4.2	2.5%	98%	108 interviews Add to research
Microsoft Azure Application Gateway	3.6	10.2%	78%	46 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its extensive set of capabilities for application protection, including DDoS prevention, and its ability to work with Pentesters and external scanners to observe user activity and eliminate false positives."
"WAF functionality is valuable for protecting applications from attacks."
"The product is used to secure web applications and has the ability to use API templates and bot protection features, such as blocking requests or presenting CAPTCHA pages to end users."

Room for Improvement

"It's a powerful tool yet can be complex for new users."
"The DDoS capabilities should be enhanced."
"Users would like to have an additional IP intelligence license to handle this within WAF itself without needing to engage with the SOC team."

Pricing

"It is a little bit costly, but it has all the features that are required."
"I would rate the pricing as seven out of ten"
"I rate F5 Advanced WAF's pricing a three out of ten."

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Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

15%

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F5 Advanced WAF has helped organizations to expose more services to the public while providing an extra layer of protection, preventing revenue loss, and securing connectivity.