We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and F5 Shape Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."We use it not only for DDoS detection and protection, but we also use it for traffic analysis and capacity planning as well. We've also been able to extend the use of it to other security measures within our company, the front-line defense, not only for DDoS, but for any kind of scanning malware that may be picked up. It's also used for outbound attacks, which has helped us mitigate those and lower our bandwidth costs..."
"Analytics and its attack mitigation capabilities are valuable features of the solution."
"It's just one dashboard with mitigation. You decide which mitigation you want and at what threshold to do this or that. Its operation is pretty simple. It's easy."
"The solution provides good protection against volumetric DDoS attacks."
"The solution is flexible, easy to implement and has an efficient technical support team."
"The technical support of Arbor DDoS is good."
"The most valuable feature is mitigation, which can blackhole the IP."
"The artificial intelligence feature is most appreciated. This solution can lower the throughput and clear the traffic, which is something really important for us. It also provides good protection. It is user-friendly, and its integration has also been really fast. We have many critical applications, and it was easy to integrate Arbor DDoS with our website, mobile application, and web banking."
"F5 Shape Security's most valuable feature is performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of configuration."
"The product could have end-to-end platform visibility."
"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."
"The solution's IT support needs improvement."
"Arbor Pravail APS devices do not sync features or config the backup enough. This needs to be improved."
"There is definitely room for improvement in third-party intelligence and integrations."
"With Arbor DDoS, its integration issues with other technologies or other vendors' technologies is an area of concern that could be improved."
"The regional support here in African could improve, such as marketing and account managers."
"The tool's price is high."
"I want the solution's custom exclusion rules to be more granular."
Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while F5 Shape Security is ranked 7th in Fraud Detection and Prevention with 2 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while F5 Shape Security is rated 8.6. 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 Shape Security writes "Easy to configure and blocks bot attacks for web users". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Corero, Imperva DDoS and A10 Thunder TPS, whereas F5 Shape Security is most compared with Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare, HUMAN BotGuard for Applications, Imperva DDoS and Akamai App and API Protector.
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