We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and StackPath WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."We can monitor IP locations, but we have constraints from each country. It has a replication feature. Licenses can be shared, taking turns with each license."
"It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"Provides good protection from attacks."
"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."
"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its ability to have a pool of resources that can distribute your traffic, and that is a plus for me. My company tried to look into a competitor, Imperva, but it was lacking that capability, so F5 Advanced WAF outperforms Imperva."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"It's a fairly easy-to-use and user-friendly tool. My administrators and team also like its ability to customize the rules per the requirements."
"The product’s most valuable is WAF. The authentication feature helps us protect WordPress sites."
"There should be more ability to rate limit certain scenarios. The majority of the time, it is either on or off. For certain types of use cases, there should be the ability to rate limit, not just enable or disable."
"There is a gap in report management."
"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."
"They could provide better pricing."
"The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."
"The overall price of F5 Advanced WAF could improve."
"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."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"The product’s performance for caching feature needs improvement."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while StackPath WAF is ranked 27th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 1 review. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while StackPath WAF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StackPath WAF writes "Stable product with an easy setup process ". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas StackPath WAF is most compared with AWS WAF and Sucuri.
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