We performed a comparison between Azure Web Application Firewall and F5 Silverline Managed Services 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."We have found the most valuable features to be the web application, minimal skills required for management, control through policies, and automation."
"It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products."
"Azure WAF is extremely stable."
"It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"The integration it has with GitHub is great."
"It has been a stable product in my experience."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The product’s UI is easy to understand."
"Most vendors fulfill the requirements for standard DDoS protection, but F5 Silverline Managed Services has a better understanding of defending web applications like HTTP and can mitigate more bot activity than any other vendor."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance."
"F5 technical support is really good."
"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"In Brazil, we have some problems with the phone service that affect our connection with the cloud. However, it isn't common."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
"The management can be improved."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"From a reporting perspective, they could do more there."
"I just hope the price can be cheaper."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."
"We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough."
"You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell."
"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better."
"The product could be improved on the global load and the integration with the other solution like Cisco and Dell. As a representor of the operation, we prefer to have one platform which can accommodate all type of integration. We are also looking for more improvements in the security policy configuration."
"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by adding features that Palo Alto has."
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Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 14th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 9 reviews while F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 20th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews. Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Front Door, Azure Firewall and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. See our Azure Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services report.
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