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)."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."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"It protects and mitigates damage in the network."
"The web application firewall itself is most valuable. It provides positive security and negative security. In negative security, it blocks a task such as cross-site scripting, code injection, etc. In positive security, it lets you specify and enforce things, such as the parameters allowed in username and password fields and the number of characters allowed in a field."
"The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need."
"The initial setup was was easy to install."
"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."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
"The solution is tedious. It takes a lot of discrete settings so one needs to get detailed and granular when they use the solution. It takes you a whole lot of energy and concentration to configure. It needs to be much more straight-forward, like other web solutions."
"The solution should include protection against web page attacks like what is available in FortiWeb."
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"They could provide better pricing."
"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 34th 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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