We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Prolexic 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."We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"CGNAT is one of its strong areas."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"The solution does not have hardware or maintenance requirements and is very easy to scale."
"The product is expensive."
"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."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises."
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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 Prolexic is ranked 14th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 4 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Prolexic is rated 7.8. 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 Prolexic writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas Prolexic is most compared with Akamai App and API Protector, Cloudflare DDoS, Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS and Lumen DDoS Mitigation.
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