We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."F5 Advanced WAF secures our connectivity and combines both the main functions of WAF (balancing and web application security)."
"F5's user-friendly interface and seamless integration stand out as the most valuable features for us."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its ability to have a pool of resources that can distribute your traffic, and that is a plus for me. My company tried to look into a competitor, Imperva, but it was lacking that capability, so F5 Advanced WAF outperforms Imperva."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"It's flexible and powerful, and the users can input their own rules to the system."
"It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"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."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"The product is quite flexible."
"I have Big-IP change and control manager, which give me the roll back option. Therefore, I can view the last things which happened on the device."
"The solution is very easy to use and easy to understand. It's quite an intuitive system."
"BIG-IP LTM's most valuable feature is that it allows you to seamlessly add more servers without impacting your application's configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the F5 LTM (Local Traffic Manager). This is the part of the product most organisations will be using most. It provides the core functionality to be able to load balance services and the means and the intelligence to be able to load balance based on advanced logic, e.g., TCL scripting."
"In my team, we work in a very agile environment and the solutions from BIG-IP, including BIG-IP WAF, suit us well when developing and serving our applications."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is IP Intelligence."
"I have found F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) to be stable."
"Scalability could be improved."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive."
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"The user interface (UI) seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial."
"The deployment side is quite complex."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
"The reporting could be clearer and embedded to include our movement data."
"The price for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is very high. This aspect could be improved."
"It's a very expensive solution."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"The pricing model has caused some frustration. My clients implemented the solution and later wanted to upgrade the features but the pricing structure was complicated. There are other solutions with better pricing models."
"We would like to have integration into encryption and PKI integration with SafeNet. That is probably the key component in using External PKIs, letting people bring their PKIs with them."
"They need to improve the interface and some of the functionalities."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"BIG-IP LTM's sandboxing integration could be improved."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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