We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Oracle Dyn Web Application 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."The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"The protection is very useful."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IP's."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"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."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"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."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's pricing and technical support services need improvement."
"The solution should have a Data Mask for the next release. It would be helpful for banking institutions as they would be able to hide the server number of the ATM machine in the CPU."
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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 Oracle Dyn Web Application Security is ranked 38th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Oracle Dyn Web Application Security is rated 9.0. 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 Oracle Dyn Web Application Security writes "Very secure with an easy initial setup and pretty stable". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas Oracle Dyn Web Application Security is most compared with .
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