F5 Advanced WAF vs Fastly comparison

"The product has a valuable security control functionality."

"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."

"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."

"Cloudflare is cheaper compared to Azure WAF, which I have considered before."

"Someone with a basic understanding of networking and security will be able to implement the firewall's basic features within 15 minutes."

"It protects web applications efficiently."

"It is a SaaS solution unlike much of the competition."

"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."

"The solution uses AI to protect against botnet attacks."

"There is no need to worry about updating signatures because WAF will automatically update the signatures for you."

"It provides web application security and reduces bot attacks."

"The product has valuable features for load balancing, monitoring tools, and HPXpress services."

"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its grand unity of the implementation, where you have the freedom to configure based on how it affects your use case or your organization. With the default setting of implicit deny, you can gradually start defining and deploying the tool to align with your environment, whether it is outdated, recent, or futuristic. This allows you to customize the solution to protect you from threat actors. You have the ability to define what the advanced threat act should do - whether it should alert, deny, or both - and it will deliver based on your configuration. Unlike other online solutions, F5 Advanced WAF provides flexibility to deliver to your unique environment the way you want."

"F5 Advanced WAF offers features not available in other products."

"Web attack signatures are very important for detecting web attacks."

"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."

"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."

"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."

"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."

"Fastly provides CDN, WAF, image optimization, and IP restriction."

"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."

"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."

"Fastly combines both the CDN side and the Signal Sciences next-generation WAF, which is closely integrated with the CDN, allowing us to use both products seamlessly."

"The product's initial setup phase is straightforward."

"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."

"We have noticed some latency when the call goes through the firewall. That could be improved."

"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."

"We don't even use Cloudflare Bot Management because it's too expensive; you need to pay per request, and it's much cheaper to get one or two additional machines."

"Its stability could be better."

"The reporting could be more granular."

"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."

"A key challenge arises when dealing with numerous integrations with HVAC systems. Depending on the specifics, there might be some configuration mismatches, which necessitate specific support."

"The product could be more user-friendly, particularly the user interface for administrators."

"F5 Advanced needs to improve its bot protection. The solution needs to have machine learning to learn the behavior of the customer to recognize the human versus the bot. This is a difficult feature to explain to our customers. I would like documentation about the bot feature to make it easier for the customer to understand."

"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."

"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."

"People who want to work with the device have to be pro in Linux"

"It should be a little bit easy to deploy in terms of the overall deployment session. One of our customers is a bit unhappy about the reporting options. Currently, it automatically deletes event logs after some limit if a customer doesn't have any external Syslog server. It is a problem for those customers who want to review event logs after a week or so because they won't get proper reports or event logs. They should increase the duration to at least a month or two for storing the data on the device. F5 is not a leader in Gartner Quadrant, which affects us when we go and pitch this solution. Customers normally go and take a look at such annual reports, and because F5 is currently not there as a leader, the customers ask about it even though we are saying it is good in all things. F5 is not known for something totally different or unique. They were a major player in ADP, and they are just rebranding themselves into security. They should improve or increase their marketing as a security company now. They have already started to do that, but they should do it more so that when it comes to security, customers can easily remember F5. At the moment, if we say F5, load balancing comes to mind. With rebranding and marketing, all customers should get the idea that F5 is now mainly focusing on the security part of it, and it is a security company instead of load balancing. This is the first solution that should come to a customer's mind for a web application firewall."

"They should work on the virtualization of NGINX."

"There are opportunities for improvement in updating the user interface to a more modern look."

"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."

"We are not getting quick responses from Fastly technical support engineers. Sometimes they depend on their D3 developers."

"Support is not that great."

"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."

"What I don't like about Fastly is that they charge a heavy price."

"The solution's pricing could be better."

"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."

"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."

"It starts at $20 and can easily go up to $200 monthly"

"The pricing model is very straightforward compared to the competition. You just pay per month for the product and usage."

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

"The solution is expensive."

"We pay $210 per month for CloudFlare WAF."

"It is not too pricey."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."

"I don't have any issue with the pricing of this solution."

"I would rate the pricing as seven out of ten"

"Its price is fair. We have done a couple of deals where they were able to give some kind of discount to the customers. The price was initially high for the customers, but after a couple of negotiations, it came within their budget. They were happy with that."

"Pricing for this solution is higher than average."

"I think the price is very high."

"It is expensive. Its price should be better. Its licensing is on a yearly basis. Its licensing is also based on the model. There are no additional costs."

"I rate F5 Advanced WAF's pricing a three out of ten."

"The price of the solution is reasonable when compared with other products, such as FortiWeb. I am very satisfied with the price."

"It is an expensive solution."

"In my opinion, Fastly is priced competitively."

"Fastly is less expensive than one of its competitors."

"I've generally found Fastly to be very competitive in pricing, especially around Compute@Edge."

"The pricing has been very competitive."

"The solution is cheaper than other products in the market."

"You need to pay a premium price for the tool."