We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability is okay and we have not encountered problems with the solution."
"It's very flexible and we can easily deploy it to our network. It's very user-friendly. We can do everything via the web interface and troubleshoot easily from the CLI. It's not complicated."
"Arbor DDoS's best feature is that we can put the certificates in, and it will look at layer seven and the encrypted traffic and do the required signaling."
"The auto-mitigation, that signaling feature, where it automatically raises an alarm that a line is under attack, is important. The upstream service provider will then do something to reduce the load on our internet lines. The fact that it's automated means I don't have to sit and always be looking at threats coming through. It does it almost automatically, without any intervention by me."
"There were huge attacks in October, around 62 attacks at 30 gigabits per second, at one of our banks. We used Arbor DDoS to mitigate these attacks, and it performed great."
"Reporting is quite good. There are several pages of reporting on DDoS attacks, and you can find all the details that you need."
"Our customers are very happy when we provide them with the interface... They can check how many attacks they have faced and how many attacks have been blocked."
"It provides packet capture and we can block or whitelist whichever IPs we need to. Whatever traffic we want to block - and we get IPs from internal teams and from national teams - we block at the Arbor level only, because if it gets to the firewall then firewall bandwidth will be taken."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"The protection is very useful."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."
"The look and feel of the management console is a little old, excessively simple. If you compare it with other solutions, the look and feel of the console is like you're using technology from five or six years ago. It doesn't show all the technology that is actually behind it. It looks like an older solution, even though it is not."
"The following areas need improvement: opening and tracking support tickets, online support resources, software upgrades/updates and replacement media, and event management guidelines."
"An improvement would be to provide information on how pricing is done on different customer levels."
"There is definitely room for improvement in third-party intelligence and integrations."
"The solution's shortcomings are related to its documentation, so it's an area that needs to improve."
"For troubleshooting problems, it's not so intuitive. It's not straightforward. This is the core of their kernel, so they need to improve it a little bit... In F5 I have full control of everything."
"An improvement to Arbor DDoS would be to make evaluation licenses and virtual machines available."
"I think the diversity of protection is extremely limited. It must be expanded in future upgrades and versions."
"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"F5 BIG-IP AFM can improve the reporting interface in relation to advanced troubleshooting depending on CLI. They should have enhanced troubleshooting with the use of GUI."
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"The product is expensive."
"The solution doesn't really meet our requirements for an edge firewall."
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Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Corero, Imperva DDoS and F5 Silverline Managed Services, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro. See our Arbor DDoS vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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