We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Radware Alteon 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."Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"My favorite feature of F5 is the ability to play around with the ciphers. I also like the ability to have an immediate display of the support IDs when a real blockage occurs. The protection offered is great."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the easy identification of events and customization. We can pinpoint our settings."
"One of the most valuable features is the Local Traffic Manager."
"It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"The support experience is better than average."
"F5 Advanced WAF has very good stability and scalability. Its initial setup was straightforward."
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
"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."
"This solution can be made more user-friendly."
"You have to buy another module with an extra license, to have the authentication feature."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"I would like the solution to display and help visualize the reference map more easily. I would also like to better understand where queries come from and know which users are consulting the application, along with which app."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
"I would like to see future enhancements in security, specifically in threat protection."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 54 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Citrix Web App and API Protection, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, A10 Networks Thunder ADC, HAProxy and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Radware Alteon report.
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