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."F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"Provides good protection from attacks."
"I like them because I like the security solution. They get extra marks compared to other solutions or competitors. There are more features than any other product I can think of. They're always monitoring, and the security features offer more than other, lesser products."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"The most valuable feature is artificial intelligence and to get extra internal access."
"iRules are quite appealing when it comes to F5."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its stability. During the time that I have been using it, it has not undergone a service failure... And with the integrated application protection, we have not suffered from attacks anymore."
"his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application."
"Radware has been characterized by being extremely robust. This gives us the confidence to offer our users a continuous service."
"The most valuable feature is the load-balancing reverse proxy."
"The product offers high availability."
"The integrated application protection provided by Alteon is very good. It really helps to avoid false positives in some cases. It provides important granularity to avoid a situation in which security or cybersecurity scenarios escape us."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"The Sandbox integration feature could be improved."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the reporting. It's a bit difficult to populate, them. If you're not so familiar with the functions, such as where to find the logs and other settings."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"The solution should include protection against web page attacks like what is available in FortiWeb."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"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."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 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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