F5 Silverline Managed Services Reviews

We are using this product for a major airline whose traffic is routed via F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. All B2C sites are behind F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. The data part is basically to Akamai for CDNs and to F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall for WAF capability. The resources are hosted on AWS or Azure. For parameters, we have another F5 AWAS module, which intercepts the traffic once it is inside the cloud parameters, and then the data goes to the backend application pool. Every B2C traffic gets inspected on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. Every HTTP profile is inspected on the Advanced WAF module, which is again F5 on-premises.

We are also deploying this solution for another client in the Middle East. We're basically deploying the architecture. We have F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall and the Check Point firewall as the next-generation firewalls. All HTTP traffic is via F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, and it is routed back to the Check Point firewall for IPS and malware inspection because F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does not do that. Non-HTTP profiles go via the Check Point firewall.

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.

I use F5 Silverline Managed Services for application delivery and security. I have extensive experience with products like LTM (application delivery controller), GTM (global traffic load balancing), ASM, and APM. These products enable me to distribute back-end server traffic, customize and control HTTP headers, and provide security measures like health checks and DNS security.

F5 Silverline offers load balancing, flexibility, and reliability. It allows for centralized management of certificates, protecting applications from top ten attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. It is effective at mitigating DDoS attacks where a profile can be created and applied to virtual servers.

Our primary use case for this solution is DDoS and firewall protection. 

F5 Silverline Managed Services's most valuable feature is 24/7 organic mitigation. The service consists of real people mitigating attacks in real time. When a real person is mitigating an attack, you will get the best possible defense.

We primarily use the solution for config or application security policies on web application firewalls. It's to protect applications that are internet-facing. There's port protection as well. 

The initial setup is very straightforward. 

The security and protection on offer are pretty good. 

We use the solution for protection from Layer 3, Layer 4, and Layer 7 DDoS attacks and for web application firewalls.

The product’s UI is easy to understand.

We use it for thing application deployment for our application, which is known as CBN. Most of the traffic is put to Silverline.

We only use for Web Application Firewall (WAF). We only did one.

F5 Silverline Managed Services is used to protect applications from SQL injection attacks and to prevent any cross-access scripting and vulnerabilities.

The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides.

Our primary use case of F5 is for a WAF. I used to use F5 to do some double load balancing. And now, for my current use case, we primarily use the F5 Silverline as an application firewall to protect our web servers. 

The most important feature is that they have L7-firewall protection, to protect our web servers.