We performed a comparison between Citrix Web App and API Protection 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."We have good customer support."
"The advantage of Citrix Web App and API Protection is just its graphic user interface for beginners. The solution is nothing special, but we have to use it for the corporation. Another advantage of Citrix Web App and API Protection is that we have our copy to test things and get the know-how of it."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"The stability is good. If there is a problem, the load will be shifted to other sites automatically, which has been a good experience for us."
"I like the solution's simplicity compared to Citrix's on-prem solutions."
"When our primary link goes down I can still get to my Cisco devices and the NetScaler devices on-prem because of the SDN solution. If the internet connection at one of the branches goes down, we can still route them, they still get internet based on the SDN solution through one of the other sites. They can carry on working."
"Citrix Web App API Protection allows you to enable a blocking mode"
"The web application firewall which protects our services on the internet, and then of course services like our ability to provide high availability for the services we are offering are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the balancer and you can change policies very easily."
"The solution isn't too expensive. The license allows you to license what you need and leave out what you don't need."
"F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."
"The support experience is better than average."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"There are a lot of good features."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution's pricing is a big concern and should be improved."
"An area for improvement in Citrix Web App and API Protection is for it to give real-time notifications and alerts. It would be practical if the solution warns you if there's an attack or if the load or traffic volume increases or decreases. An additional feature I'd like to see in Citrix Web App and API Protection is a prediction or artificial intelligence on what is happening, for example, attacks."
"The user interface could be more friendly. Some wizards and other documentation for administrators, as well as some use cases, helps us to understand the solution."
"The reporting is not so good. They don't have an application to connect the logs."
"The product could be improved by making it easier to use and easier to implement."
"I am not an expert in this solution, but simplicity and user-friendly interfaces are crucial for me. I would appreciate advice from Citrix, particularly in the form of an interactive guide for API protection. It would be helpful if they could provide specific points and recommendations for cybersecurity, indicating areas that need attention or improvement. I find such interactive guidance valuable."
"The configuration for its web application firewall is complicated."
"Security could be improved because then I can get rid of my Cisco firewalls. If they improve the security then I could run my security, my proxy, my firewalling and my SDN solution on one device instead of having to have multiple devices."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the reporting. It's a bit difficult to populate, them. If you're not so familiar with the functions, such as where to find the logs and other settings."
"One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy."
"You have to buy another module with an extra license, to have the authentication feature."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"The reporting could be clearer and embedded to include our movement data."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
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Citrix Web App and API Protection is ranked 20th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 10 reviews while F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews. Citrix Web App and API Protection is rated 8.0, while F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Citrix Web App and API Protection writes "Has a good graphic user interface for beginners, but lacks real-time notifications, alerts, and artificial intelligence". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". Citrix Web App and API Protection is most compared with Azure Front Door, Fortinet FortiWeb, AWS WAF, Akamai App and API Protector and Imperva DDoS, whereas F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Cloudflare. See our Citrix Web App and API Protection vs. F5 Advanced WAF report.
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