We performed a comparison between Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and F5 Advanced WAF 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."The integration of Cloudflare with Cloud Suite is its most valuable feature."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"It protects web applications efficiently."
"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."
"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."
"It is configurable via API."
"The product has improved our security posture by blocking bad actors."
"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its grand unity of the implementation, where you have the freedom to configure based on how it affects your use case or your organization. With the default setting of implicit deny, you can gradually start defining and deploying the tool to align with your environment, whether it is outdated, recent, or futuristic. This allows you to customize the solution to protect you from threat actors. You have the ability to define what the advanced threat act should do - whether it should alert, deny, or both - and it will deliver based on your configuration. Unlike other online solutions, F5 Advanced WAF provides flexibility to deliver to your unique environment the way you want."
"I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."
"The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need."
"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."
"There is no need to worry about updating signatures because WAF will automatically update the signatures for you."
"The solution uses AI to protect against botnet attacks."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"F5 Advanced WAF secures our connectivity and combines both the main functions of WAF (balancing and web application security)."
"Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well. They have documentation for everything you're looking for, but they lack a single piece of documentation to tie everything together. As a new user or beginner, it took us a little bit of time to figure out how to put all these things in place."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."
"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."
"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."
"Its stability could be better."
"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."
"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."
"The blocked logs are difficult to read at times."
"The interface is old-looking, it's not modern, which is why it's not always comfortable to use."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."
"They could provide better pricing."
"Scalability could be improved."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"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."
"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."
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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews while F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Radware Alteon, whereas 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). See our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. F5 Advanced WAF report.
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