F5 Advanced WAF vs Indusface AppTrana comparison

"It protects and mitigates damage in the network."

"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."

"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."

"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."

"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."

"This solution inspects your traffic and based on that, automatically create distinct qualities for you, so you can add this to the policy already created. That's what I like most."

"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."

"With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform."

"We use Indusface AppTrana as a firewall."

"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."

"The GUI interface can be confusing due to similar-looking tabs for policy building, traffic learning, and event logs."

"Its price should be better. It is expensive."

"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."

"I would say their graphical interface, the GUI. I don't like the GUI as much as before."

"More legacy protocols should be added to the solution."

"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."

"There should be more ability to rate limit certain scenarios. The majority of the time, it is either on or off. For certain types of use cases, there should be the ability to rate limit, not just enable or disable."

"The solution should add an enhanced dashboard to make it easy to navigate."

"As far as the pricing of F5 Advanced WAF I would rate it a four out of five depending on what features I am looking for. Imperva is more expensive."

"The way we deployed it, I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing."

"It is a little bit costly, but it has all the features that are required."

"F5 Advanced WAF technical support comes at a cost, and it's expensive."

"I think the price is very high."

"The pricing of F5 Advanced WAF is more expensive than other solutions like Radware and CD18, it is quite high."

"There is an annual subscription for this solution."

"The pricing for F5 Advanced WAF is comparable to a Rolls-Royce. Its price is a bit high when you compare it with other vendors. F5 Advanced WAF is a bit expensive. The customer was on a three-year plan and it was around $560,000."

"Indusface AppTrana is an affordable and cost-effective solution."