We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Wallarm NG WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."It is the perfect solution when you have high workloads in your IT environment."
"The tech support we got from F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager directly was pretty good."
"It helps us recognize sessions from certain IPs that are authorized to manage the application. This is a function we haven't found anywhere else."
"We plan to create packages of services from which it will be possible to build comprehensive tailor-made solutions."
"The most valuable features are the WAF and the big IP."
"The capability is at a seven or eight out of ten."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
"The one gap I saw was that pure LBN integration is a little tricky. The insertion of F5 in LBN is a little tricky. They need to work on something, on products by which they can insert F5 in any sort of cloud environment."
"The ASM administration is quite complex. The topic itself is pretty complex, so it is not easy to provide a nice, clean interface. There are a lot of references and dependencies in-between the different subareas."
"Fixing bugs."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would expect more integration with different platforms and more integration with the backend systems. Additionally, in the next release, I would like a more secure version."
"An expensive solution for the minimal features we use."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"The solution could improve the ease of use, the management could be simplified. Other solutions are easier to use."
"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 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Wallarm NG WAF is ranked 34th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Wallarm NG WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". 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 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Wallarm NG WAF is most compared with Salt Security, Noname Security, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare.
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