We performed a comparison between Corero 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 is an agnostic and transparent inline platform, which means that the maximum visibility of the symmetric and asymmetric traffic is available, even allowing bidirectional detection of the attack."
"The DDoS protection features are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Corero is its ability to handle smaller attacks in terms of the amount of volume and time. You can handle almost 100 perfect of the attacks locally."
"It is a good solution. Its vendor support is the most valuable. It is simple and works well if you have Juniper MX routers."
"This is a hybrid solution."
"SmartWall devices occupy only one-fourth of the width of a rack unit, making them very easy to install."
"It is stable."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"The decryption is great."
"The protection is very useful."
"CGNAT is one of its strong areas."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"It could use support in Spanish."
"Juniper is known in our country, but it is not very popular. There is also not enough information about Corero. Our enterprise and financial sectors don't know about this solution. They need to provide more information and do more marketing for this solution in our country."
"The product must provide more Layer 7 capabilities."
"Lacks international presence."
"The approach taken by Corero is to partner with other organizations in order to address volumetric attacks that cannot be handled by the hardware installed in the infrastructure. Corero does not have a solution for these attacks, so they are looking for partners to help them manage them. This approach is supplemented by local hardware, but the main focus is on the partnerships. It would be beneficial to have a more complete solution."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"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 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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Corero is ranked 18th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 5 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Corero is rated 8.4, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Corero writes "Effect local attack handling, intuitive interface, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Corero is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Radware DefensePro, Radware Cloud DDoS Protection Service and Lumen DDoS Mitigation, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro. See our Corero vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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