F5 Silverline Managed Services pros and cons

Vendor: F5

3.8 out of 5

14 reviews
100% willing to recommend

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Pros & Cons summary

F5 Silverline Managed Services offers configuration excellence and robust seven-layer firewall protection, enhancing web security. Businesses appreciate its managed service flexibility, requiring only DNS routing. Despite benchmark performance against threats, improvement is needed in security policy configuration and global load management. The high price, fewer PoPs, demand for advanced AI integration, bot detection features, and cloud support affect competitiveness with solutions like Akamai and Palo Alto.

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PROS

Configuration and ease of setup are key valuable features, enhancing the management of logs and incidents for multiple businesses.

F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall offers seven layers of firewall protection to secure web servers, with flexibility as a managed service requiring only DNS routing.

The service simplifies the consolidation of multiple WAFs into one control point, making policy application easy with F5 AWAF systems.

F5 Silverline efficiently performs like an advanced on-premises WAF and has a superior understanding of HTTP application defense and bot activity mitigation.

The cloud-native functionality and protection provided by F5 Silverline Managed Services deliver a benchmark performance and offer a distributed architecture.

CONS

F5 Silverline Managed Services could improve global load handling and integration with other solutions like Cisco and Dell.

There is a need for more improvements in security policy configuration, and users require Linux knowledge to use the shell.

The price is high compared to other products, and there is a need to offer better value.

Current support for cloud protection is lacking, and F5 Silverline Managed Services should introduce more Points of Presence (PoPs).

There is significant room for improvement with tech support and a desire for increased use of AI.

F5 Silverline Managed Services Pros review quotes

Balagopal Kaimal

Co-Founder and CTO at Cyber-CP Ltd

Sep 17, 2020

Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do.