We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and F5 Shape 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 product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"It is stable."
"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."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"The protection is very useful."
"The decryption is great."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"F5 Shape Security's most valuable feature is performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of configuration."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"The product is expensive."
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"We would have preferred to have support when we first started"
"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."
"I want the solution's custom exclusion rules to be more granular."
"The tool's price is high."
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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 F5 Shape Security is ranked 7th in Fraud Detection and Prevention with 2 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while F5 Shape Security is rated 8.6. 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 F5 Shape Security writes "Easy to configure and blocks bot attacks for web users". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas F5 Shape Security is most compared with Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare, Akamai App and API Protector, HUMAN BotGuard for Applications and F5 Silverline Managed Services.
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