We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Wallarm NG WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."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."
"It can scale."
"Good dashboard and reporting."
"The solution is stable."
"The valuable features vary from customers to customers. Some customers are okay with the basic features of the WAF, and some customers use advanced WAF with a few other features."
"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."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the balancer and you can change policies very easily."
"It protects and mitigates damage in the network."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"This solution can be made more user-friendly."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve resource usage, it is CPU intensive. Additionally, adding automated remediation would be a benefit. For example, an easy button alerts us of the events that are occurring, and what we want to do at the time. An automated approach where somebody could be alerted very quickly. Instead of going and reconfiguring everything, an automated approach is what I'm looking at."
"The BNS module needs improvement."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"The biggest problem for us was the stability and speed using the first version of Wallarm. Now, it is fine."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Wallarm NG WAF is ranked 34th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Wallarm NG WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wallarm NG WAF writes "Active threat detection and adaptive rules are the most valuable for us". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Wallarm NG WAF is most compared with Salt Security, Noname Security, AWS WAF, Cloudflare and 42Crunch API Security Platform.
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