We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Radware DefensePro 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."I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"It is stable."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The protection is very useful."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."
"The decryption is great."
"The important features include automated protection and defense against many attacks, it's important that our networks are protected in the Radware cloud."
"The pricing is reasonable. It's not overly expensive."
"It has kept us up and operational on a day-to-day basis, without being interrupted by an attack from outside sources."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create signatures on-demand."
"As a service provider, we use the SecOps dashboard feature. That's where we check the time of attacks to see if an attack is happening at the moment or if it has already happened... It is very dynamic and helps us know when an attack occurred, how long it lasted, and what type of attack it was."
"With the secure signature feature, the Radware DefensePro is a big assistance. It is a big help to our customers to improve their productivity and performance. The prompt response from the Radware team is definitely increasing in the new era."
"Its functionality is very good."
"The DDoS protection that the solution provides is its most valuable feature."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"It doesn't compare to next generation firewalls"
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"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."
"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."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"The solution doesn't really meet our requirements for an edge firewall."
"I had some trouble in the registration account prior to deployment, but it was fixed. They were not very fast or responsive, however. It took about one week to resolve the issue."
"The dashboard could be updated."
"I would like to have more granular steps according to protected bandwidth, so the granularity should be better."
"They need to increase the limit of devices that we can manage."
"Radware DefensePro requires a continuous learning process. Using this technology, we can improve our network. Based on the different attack mechanisms, we use Radware DefensePro to provide security for our clients' networks very effectively."
"This solution may not cover all of the requirements in situations for which I am unfamiliar, and there is always room for improvement."
"I would like to see more graphics within the dashboard. Right now, you are required to buy tools in order to have graphical representation for your monitoring."
"They should add artificial intelligence to the platform. It is currently missing the machine learning piece."
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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 Radware DefensePro is ranked 5th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Radware DefensePro is rated 8.2. 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 Radware DefensePro writes "Regular signature update with good reporting and analytics". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS and AWS Shield, whereas Radware DefensePro is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS, Fortinet FortiDDoS and Azure DDoS Protection. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Radware DefensePro report.
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