We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Virsec Security Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon, Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the security features and the protection."
"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 best solution for WAF."
"The most valuable features of the F5 Advanced WAF are the enhanced ASM and the performance. Additionally, the usability and effectiveness are very good."
"I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."
"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the balancer and you can change policies very easily."
"The most valuable feature is that it is secure."
"We use the solution for Zero-day protection."
"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"It should be a little bit easy to deploy in terms of the overall deployment session. One of our customers is a bit unhappy about the reporting options. Currently, it automatically deletes event logs after some limit if a customer doesn't have any external Syslog server. It is a problem for those customers who want to review event logs after a week or so because they won't get proper reports or event logs. They should increase the duration to at least a month or two for storing the data on the device. F5 is not a leader in Gartner Quadrant, which affects us when we go and pitch this solution. Customers normally go and take a look at such annual reports, and because F5 is currently not there as a leader, the customers ask about it even though we are saying it is good in all things. F5 is not known for something totally different or unique. They were a major player in ADP, and they are just rebranding themselves into security. They should improve or increase their marketing as a security company now. They have already started to do that, but they should do it more so that when it comes to security, customers can easily remember F5. At the moment, if we say F5, load balancing comes to mind. With rebranding and marketing, all customers should get the idea that F5 is now mainly focusing on the security part of it, and it is a security company instead of load balancing. This is the first solution that should come to a customer's mind for a web application firewall."
"The reporting could be clearer and embedded to include our movement data."
"Most customers encounter stability issues with the product's Big-IP logs."
"There is a gap in report management."
"The solution is tedious. It takes a lot of discrete settings so one needs to get detailed and granular when they use the solution. It takes you a whole lot of energy and concentration to configure. It needs to be much more straight-forward, like other web solutions."
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"The tool's dashboard needs to load since it is not responsive and takes time to load."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews while Virsec Security Platform is ranked 25th in CWPP (Cloud Workload Protection Platforms) with 1 review. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Virsec Security Platform is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Virsec Security Platform writes "Helps with Zero-day protection ". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, AWS WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Virsec Security Platform is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, CrowdStrike Falcon and Trend Vision One- Cloud Security.
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