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."The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are SSL uploading, signature, and anomaly detection. It is overall a high-quality solution."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the balancer and you can change policies very easily."
"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."
"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"This solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"The initial setup was was easy to install."
"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."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"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."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"The administrator's user interface and some of the settings can sometimes be very complicated to understand."
"One area for improvement in the product is its SSO integration, which posed challenges and required significant effort to resolve."
"There is a learning curve that extends the time of implementation."
"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."
"You have to buy another module with an extra license, to have the authentication feature."
"The solution could improve by having an independent capture module. It has a built feature that you can deploy the capture on your published website. However, it's not very user-friendly. When you compare this feature to Google Capture or other enterprise captures, they are very simple. It needs a good connection to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. When you implement this feature in the data center, you may suffer some complications with connecting to the F5 Advanced WAF sandbox. This should be improved in the future."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"People who want to work with the device have to be pro in Linux"
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"The interface implementation can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"A feature that I would like to see included in the next version might be a better analysis when working with crypt issues. Right now, it is very manual; you load it into Alteon and it runs. It would be interesting to see a more dynamic process."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 26 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 21 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 "Cost-effective, reduces downtime, and allows third-party SSL integration". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, AWS WAF 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 Barracuda Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Radware Alteon report.
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