Prisma Cloud is praised for its competitive pricing, ease of deployment, comprehensive security capabilities, and top-notch customer service. On the other hand, F5 Advanced WAF receives mixed opinions on pricing, setup cost, and licensing, but is valued for its robust security features, customizable policies, and responsive customer support.
The summary above is based on 138 interviews we conducted recently with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and F5 Advanced WAF users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Provides good protection from attacks."
"Very easy to implement and works well."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the easy identification of events and customization. We can pinpoint our settings."
"It's a fairly easy-to-use and user-friendly tool. My administrators and team also like its ability to customize the rules per the requirements."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"The best solution for WAF."
"I like them because I like the security solution. They get extra marks compared to other solutions or competitors. There are more features than any other product I can think of. They're always monitoring, and the security features offer more than other, lesser products."
"The two most valuable features are container security and the capability to discover workloads."
"You can also integrate with Amazon Managed Services. You can also get a snapshot in time, whether that's over a 24-hour period, seven days, or a month, to determine what the estate might look like at a certain point in time and generate reports from that for vulnerability management forums."
"The runtime mechanism on the solution is very useful. It's got very good network mapping between containers. If you have more than one container, you can create a content data link between them."
"Visibility is a key feature. Integration with other technologies across the board, whether they are Palo Alto technologies, Windows technologies, or cloud technologies, is probably the biggest thing."
"The solution will streamline and minimize manual efforts."
"The most valuable feature is the continuous cloud compliance monitoring and alerting."
"The initial setup is seamless."
"The most valuable features are vulnerability monitoring, serverless access, container runtime features, and Defender."
"The deployment side is quite complex."
"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."
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."
"There is a learning curve that extends the time of implementation."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the reporting. It's a bit difficult to populate, them. If you're not so familiar with the functions, such as where to find the logs and other settings."
"The reporting could be clearer and embedded to include our movement data."
"The Sandbox integration feature could be improved."
"They need to make the settings more flexible to fit our internal policies about data. We didn't want developers to see some data, but we wanted them to have access to the console because it was going to help them... It was a pain to have to set up the access to some languages and some data."
"The access controls for our bank roles were not granular enough. We needed specific people to do particular actions, and we often had to give some people way too much access for them to be able to do what they needed in Prisma. They couldn't do their jobs if they didn't have that level of access, so other people had to do that part for them. It would help to have more granular role-based access controls."
"I would like to see the inclusion of automated counter-attack, although this is probably illegal."
"It would be nice Prisma Cloud merged its modules for CSPM and infrastructure as code. It would simplify the pricing and make it easier for customers to evaluate the solution because there are different modules, and you need to add it to your subscription separately."
"There are hundreds of built-in policies for AWS and Azure, but GCP and Oracle are not covered as much as AWS. There is a lot of work to do on that part. There is, obviously, a tiny bit of favoritism towards AWS because it has the most market share."
"Prisma Cloud lags behind in terms of security automation capabilities."
"I have some challenges customizing and personalizing some of the capabilities in the CSPM in terms of new policies and services. We have to reconfigure and rebuild the CSPM."
"The regional cost of Prisma Cloud in South Africa is high and could be improved."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks writes "The dashboard is very user-friendly and can be used to generate custom RQL based on user requirements". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Azure Front Door, whereas Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Aqua Cloud Security Platform, AWS Security Hub and Qualys VMDR. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks report.
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