We performed a comparison between Check Point DDoS Protector 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."It uses several layers of security."
"Check Point detects and automatically mitigates attacks, which helps our organization protect our infrastructure."
"Check Point DDoS Protector is a product that uses machine learning and behavior analysis."
"The is a really low level of the false-positive alerts (when the clean traffic is marked as DDoS) due to some advanced techniques used by Check Point under the hood."
"From my experience, the best part of this solution is behavioral DDoS protection. The DDoS Protector can monitor the traffic, and based on the behavior, it can decide which traffic is malicious and which traffic is regular. It works dynamically, and it's a very good solution."
"As our business continues to grow, we can grow this product simultaneously."
"This product uses auto-learning and behavioral analysis to establish baselines for legitimate traffic, and automatically detects and blocks traffic behavior that does not conform."
"It can be deployed as a hardware appliance, virtual appliance, or as a cloud service."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"The most valuable features of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) are the web gateway, load balancing, services, and applications available."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The decryption is great."
"CGNAT is one of its strong areas."
"The mitigation part could be improved."
"It does not provide the capability to upload data for blacklisting/whitelisting in bulk."
"The public documentation is a detail that must be improved in order to have greater implementations with the best practices in this case of the Check Point manufacturer."
"It is an expensive tool for some companies."
"Monitoring and reporting are the things that can be introduced in the future."
"Check Point should develop a DDoS solution because they don't have one and we need to use another solution, in our case, Imperva. This is a problem because we need to have two firewalls. We would like to only have one solution because it would improve the management, we would have fewer incidents, and we wouldn't need to talk to more than one person for support."
"For a long time, there was no software version of R80.10 available for the Check Point DDoS Protector software appliances, and we had to stay on the quite outdated R77.30 version."
"The solution should greatly improve its interface."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"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."
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"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 BIG-IP AFM can improve the reporting interface in relation to advanced troubleshooting depending on CLI. They should have enhanced troubleshooting with the use of GUI."
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Check Point DDoS Protector is ranked 12th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 11 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Check Point DDoS Protector is rated 8.0, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point DDoS Protector writes "Good support and effective against SSL attacks, but the dashboard is complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Check Point DDoS Protector is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare and Fortinet FortiDDoS, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro. See our Check Point DDoS Protector vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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