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)."F5 technical support is excellent. They are experts who always provide the right solution, and they understand the problem. Their response and resolution times are good."
"In terms of F5 Advanced WAF's most valuable features, I would definitely say its stability. F5 is one the most stable products. Either as the load balancer or the web application firewall, it is very stable."
"The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need."
"It is also quite intuitive and user-friendly. They have several webinars that are actually like labs. You can use these webinars to learn about how to use all features of the product."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"The initial setup was was easy to install."
"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
"It should be a little bit easy to deploy in terms of the overall deployment session. One of our customers is a bit unhappy about the reporting options. Currently, it automatically deletes event logs after some limit if a customer doesn't have any external Syslog server. It is a problem for those customers who want to review event logs after a week or so because they won't get proper reports or event logs. They should increase the duration to at least a month or two for storing the data on the device. F5 is not a leader in Gartner Quadrant, which affects us when we go and pitch this solution. Customers normally go and take a look at such annual reports, and because F5 is currently not there as a leader, the customers ask about it even though we are saying it is good in all things. F5 is not known for something totally different or unique. They were a major player in ADP, and they are just rebranding themselves into security. They should improve or increase their marketing as a security company now. They have already started to do that, but they should do it more so that when it comes to security, customers can easily remember F5. At the moment, if we say F5, load balancing comes to mind. With rebranding and marketing, all customers should get the idea that F5 is now mainly focusing on the security part of it, and it is a security company instead of load balancing. This is the first solution that should come to a customer's mind for a web application firewall."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"There should be more ability to rate limit certain scenarios. The majority of the time, it is either on or off. For certain types of use cases, there should be the ability to rate limit, not just enable or disable."
"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."
"They should work on the virtualization of NGINX."
"This solution can be made more user-friendly."
"I would like to see a better interface and better documentation compatibility with other products. It's more complicated with OWASP."
"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 33rd 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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