We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) 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 quality of the technical support provided by Arbor DDoS is premium."
"Our customers are very happy when we provide them with the interface... They can check how many attacks they have faced and how many attacks have been blocked."
"We can reduce the bandwidth to minimize the attack level. If we see more than 2.5 GBs we drop it directly."
"We use it not only for DDoS detection and protection, but we also use it for traffic analysis and capacity planning as well. We've also been able to extend the use of it to other security measures within our company, the front-line defense, not only for DDoS, but for any kind of scanning malware that may be picked up. It's also used for outbound attacks, which has helped us mitigate those and lower our bandwidth costs..."
"Arbor DDoS offers security features that automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks."
"Its scalability is big. It is for large deployments of big organizations and service providers."
"It's just one dashboard with mitigation. You decide which mitigation you want and at what threshold to do this or that. Its operation is pretty simple. It's easy."
"I like all the features together as a whole."
"It is stable."
"The protection is very useful."
"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IP's."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"I think the diversity of protection is extremely limited. It must be expanded in future upgrades and versions."
"On the main page there are alerts that we are unable to clear, even though the issue has been resolved."
"The solution's IT support needs improvement."
"An improvement would be to provide information on how pricing is done on different customer levels."
"Sometimes it blocks legitimate traffic. If a legitimate user is trying to access the server continuously, the product suspects that this is a DoS traffic file. That is a case where it needs to improve. It needs machine-learning."
"There is always room for improvement for any product or service. If we can bring in more agility when deploying services, that is definitely a scope which we can work towards. Nowadays, everything is being offered as a service model. It is not that we have to deploy the physical hardware, many things move up to the cloud, or even can be delivered in the VNS form in the customer's environment as well. So, in that space, if we can add more features to make it more seamless for customers to use and make it available through some marketplace, not only at the hyperscalers, but also for any on-prem deployment, that definitely would be a big plus."
"We need a SaaS model for the solution."
"The solution needs to enhance its features to compete with other tools."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."
"The solution doesn't really meet our requirements for an edge firewall."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
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Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Corero, Imperva DDoS and Palo Alto Networks WildFire, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro. See our Arbor DDoS vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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