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 technical support of Arbor DDoS is good."
"The stability is okay and we have not encountered problems with the solution."
"The solution provides good protection against volumetric DDoS attacks."
"Analytics and its attack mitigation capabilities are valuable features of the solution."
"The quality of the technical support provided by Arbor DDoS is premium."
"We can reduce the bandwidth to minimize the attack level. If we see more than 2.5 GBs we drop it directly."
"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."
"The product allows us to check real-time progress, including latency and network activities."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"The decryption is great."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"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."
"Auto mitigation is a feature provided when DDoS is observed on any of link/customer (configured under auto mitigation). It automatically starts mitigation with default filters. In default filter mode, there could be an impact on the customer’s link,"
"An improvement to Arbor DDoS would be to make evaluation licenses and virtual machines available."
"There is always room for improvement for any product or service. If we can bring in more agility when deploying services, that is definitely a scope which we can work towards. Nowadays, everything is being offered as a service model. It is not that we have to deploy the physical hardware, many things move up to the cloud, or even can be delivered in the VNS form in the customer's environment as well. So, in that space, if we can add more features to make it more seamless for customers to use and make it available through some marketplace, not only at the hyperscalers, but also for any on-prem deployment, that definitely would be a big plus."
"On the application layer, they could have a better distributed traffic flow. They could improve that a bit. For network data it is very effective, but the application layer can be improved."
"Arbor Pravail APS devices do not sync features or config the backup enough. This needs to be improved."
"The upgrade process is mildly complex requiring treatment of the custom embedded OS separately from the application. The correlation of the underling OS to the application version can be easily missed."
"Sometimes it blocks legitimate traffic. If a legitimate user is trying to access the server continuously, the product suspects that this is a DoS traffic file. That is a case where it needs to improve. It needs machine-learning."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"We would have preferred to have support when we first started"
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"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."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's pricing and technical support services need improvement."
"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 7th 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, Imperva DDoS, Corero and Akamai App and API Protector, 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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