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F5 Shape Security vs IdentityMind comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 12, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

F5 Shape Security
Ranking in Fraud Detection and Prevention
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Bot Management (2nd)
IdentityMind
Ranking in Fraud Detection and Prevention
56th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Fraud Detection and Prevention category, the mindshare of F5 Shape Security is 1.6%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IdentityMind is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Fraud Detection and Prevention
 

Featured Reviews

Nikolay Dimitrov - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to configure and blocks bot attacks for web users
The solution is deployed on the F5 cloud. The solution's real-time analytics help you see what has been blocked. It helps to see whether the attack category was an automation attack or a fake browser. F5 Shape Security has a normal dashboard. We are doing F5 Shape Security migrations for 30 customers. F5 Shape Security uses Javascript. For a lot of competitors, the Javascript can be reverse-engineered by attackers to bypass the protection. F5 Shape Security has machine learning authentication of the Java script. If you had hacked it, the encryption would have been changed. It's really hard for attackers to reverse engineer the F5 Shape Security JavaScript. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
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Great third-party integrations, very stable and easy to set up
Some of the language around rules and integration can certainly be improved. Account creation rules and account creation flows were very helpful to me and very easy to understand, however, the management of transactions on the platform is not very good. The integration between the management of transactions and the management of account creation is quite low. I would love it if they could combine the two and make it a little bit more robust. Mostly the challenge that I faced is some of the limiting rules or some of the fraud-related checks or preventive measures that we were taking, if we could take that on the account creation side, the transaction side, it would not carry over. We would have to redo the same thing there. The number of rooms on the transaction side was fewer. What I want is deeper and better integration between a transaction and an actual account that's been created today. Let's say that I opened the details for the transaction to figure out something about it. The transaction is coming from a different geography. I want to know what's going on with it. If I could do that, I would ideally like to know who is doing the transaction without separately having to go and find this account through email search or whatever. Linkage between the two is pretty low and rules as well are not very integrated between the two. In terms of AML and transaction management use cases, they do aggregate transactions. For example, let's say over a period of one month I do five transactions. Their backend system knows how many transactions I've done, yet they don't expose that to me on the user's side. I cannot see that and report it. I have to do a calculation. If I'm the user, as in I'm the company that's using it, I have to run calculations on my side to figure out how much transaction has gone through.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of configuration."
"F5 Shape Security's most valuable feature is performance."
"They have a very wide variety of rules that allow you to integrate well."
"The automated checks are excellent."
 

Cons

"I want the solution's custom exclusion rules to be more granular."
"The tool's price is high."
"The UI at first felt like it wasn't the easiest interface to interact with."
"Some of the language around rules and integration can certainly be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is moderately priced."
"The SaaS model that we pay is what I know the cost for, and it's reasonable. It's about just under $1,000 or something per month. There is a certain number of users that you get free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
32%
Healthcare Company
10%
Retailer
8%
Computer Software Company
6%
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Company Size

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Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What makes automation distinct as an attack vector?
An aspect that sets automation apart as an attack vector is its ability to mimic legitimate user behavior and evade traditional security measures. Automated attacks can simulate human-like interact...
How does F5 Shape Security’s system work? What are its components?
One key component is the Shape Defense Engine. It sends telemetry to the Shape AI Cloud, a highly secure data system where machine learning algorithms analyze the data to detect patterns of automat...
Can F5 Shape Security protect both our web and mobile applications? Are there any specific features for mobile app protection?
F5 Shape Security can protect web apps as well. It’s a bit complicated, but goes something like this: The platform employs a JavaScript-based collection of client signals to gather data on user beh...
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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Shape Security
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Sample Customers

Wells Fargo, Loblaw, JetBlue, Zoosk
Veem, Mercari, Fundbx, Binance, Huobi, Mezu, Montual
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