We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Neustar UltraDDoS 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."It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IP's."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"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 is stable."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"This product excells in every aspect from installation and the interface to providing superior network security."
"In the DDoS it's difficult to validate what is a genuine request from an end user. We've started being able to do that with the logistics that they have set up. With the protection that they have provided, they are able to identify what is valid and what is not valid. We see that a person who is getting DDoS Neustar service is able to block that particular user. However, while they are doing that it doesn't affect other customers on the server."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"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."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"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."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"We would have preferred to have support when we first started"
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"I would like to see a dashboard that shows you the data that is transferred from which end. It's where people start looking at abuse management. People keep questioning when the mitigation is on what service it is and how many GBs are passing through. An end user dashboard that will help you identify all of these questions and that can be visible in your entire organization is something that would make sense."
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while Neustar UltraDDoS is ranked 29th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Neustar UltraDDoS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Neustar UltraDDoS writes "Identifies a request that comes up multiple times, block holds that particular IP, and lets the genuine traffic pass through". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas Neustar UltraDDoS is most compared with Arbor DDoS and Cloudflare.
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