We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Radware Alteon 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 solution is stable."
"Good technology for mitigating different application attacks, e.g. DDoS, DNS, and layer seven attacks."
"We can monitor IP locations, but we have constraints from each country. It has a replication feature. Licenses can be shared, taking turns with each license."
"F5 technical support is excellent. They are experts who always provide the right solution, and they understand the problem. Their response and resolution times are good."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the easy identification of events and customization. We can pinpoint our settings."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"One of the most valuable features is the Local Traffic Manager."
"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."
"his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"The most valuable aspect is the ability to customize the types of load-balancing scenarios needed for customized applications. Some of the load balancers on the market today are strictly out-of-hand load balancers for SSL or HTTP. Radware Alteon is most useful for customizing in-house applications based on ports and protocols."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"The device blocks threats and allows legitimate users to work correctly."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"The user interface (UI) seems a bit outdated. Making it more user-friendly would be beneficial."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"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."
"I would say their graphical interface, the GUI. I don't like the GUI as much as before."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"The solution could be more robust."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Radware Alteon 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Citrix Web App and API Protection, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, HAProxy and NGINX Plus. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Radware Alteon report.
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