We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Radware DefensePro based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"It is stable."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"The most valuable features of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) are the web gateway, load balancing, services, and applications available."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The protection is very useful."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"The product is very effective and performs well on devices."
"The dashboard is the best part, and there is also the ease of operations."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create signatures on-demand."
"Radware DefensePro's most valuable feature lies in its ability to mitigate non-traffic attacks."
"Radware DefensePro is one of the best solutions for on-premise protection."
"A flexible affordable solution for defense against DDos attacks."
"It has kept us up and operational on a day-to-day basis, without being interrupted by an attack from outside sources."
"All of our traffic has to pass through the appliance, so we can very quickly mitigate the attack. This is a very valuable feature. On top of that, it's not only volumetric attack protection that the solution offers, but also layer 7 attack protection as well."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"The product is expensive."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"I would like to see more focus on layer seven protection."
"As a service provider, we are expecting the multi-tenancy feature on the dashboard and reporting side. It will help share reports with customers in real-time. They can directly see them online. We are working with their team on API integration with our portal. We will be able to achieve that, but it will take some time."
"I would like to have more granular steps according to protected bandwidth, so the granularity should be better."
"It could incorporate more intelligence for reacting with web site visitors."
"This product would be improved if ongoing live monitoring with dashboards were added."
"There needs to be more reporting."
"Radware DefensePro requires a continuous learning process. Using this technology, we can improve our network. Based on the different attack mechanisms, we use Radware DefensePro to provide security for our clients' networks very effectively."
"The solution needs a bit more functionality. It would be good if DefensePro could have anti-bot functionalities in order to stop bots like web scrapers from getting onto our customers’ network."
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while Radware DefensePro is ranked 4th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 23 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Radware DefensePro is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware DefensePro writes "Regular signature update with good reporting and analytics". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS and AWS Shield, whereas Radware DefensePro is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS, Fortinet FortiDDoS and Indusface AppTrana. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Radware DefensePro report.
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