We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Feature-wise, they are always cutting edge and up-to-date. Many features aren't available via competitors. There's always a lot of enhanced critical features that just aren't available through anyone else, or, if they are, are too lightweight."
"F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"The initial setup was was easy to install."
"There are a lot of good features."
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"With F5 Advanced WAF, it was protection for online publications and for our customers that caused us to choose the platform."
"This is a solution that does what it's supposed to do at the price point."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) improves the resilience and quality of the application itself, the speed and the user experience for the application. The data that the users need from the application is actually acquired faster. So, it provides faster data acquisition."
"ASM for WAF."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"We are fond of the load balancing feature for DNS and servers."
"Where we are finding the AWS version helpful is when we are trying to scale up new environments. AWS Marketplace helps here a lot."
"Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is it helps our delivery team to make policies and rules for application."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve resource usage, it is CPU intensive. Additionally, adding automated remediation would be a benefit. For example, an easy button alerts us of the events that are occurring, and what we want to do at the time. An automated approach where somebody could be alerted very quickly. Instead of going and reconfiguring everything, an automated approach is what I'm looking at."
"They could provide better pricing."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"The delay times on firmware patches and software updates could be better and improved."
"F5 Advanced needs to improve its bot protection. The solution needs to have machine learning to learn the behavior of the customer to recognize the human versus the bot. This is a difficult feature to explain to our customers. I would like documentation about the bot feature to make it easier for the customer to understand."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"Based on my experience using F5 and by only taking into consideration the last seven years, I have found that the reporting mechanism is bad."
"Implementing whitepapers with a lot more applications could easily be added."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"Technical support could be improved."
"I would like them to expand load balancing, being able to go across multiple regions to on-premise and into the cloud. This could use improvement, as it is sometimes a little cumbersome."
"They need to improve the interface and some of the functionalities."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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