We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Radware DefensePro based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"The protection is very useful."
"Technologically simple and effective."
"All of our traffic has to pass through the appliance, so we can very quickly mitigate the attack. This is a very valuable feature. On top of that, it's not only volumetric attack protection that the solution offers, but also layer 7 attack protection as well."
"The product integrates well with Cisco."
"The product is very effective and performs well on devices."
"This solution is extremely scalable and has the highest level throughput (100G) which complies with Telco deployment."
"The important features include automated protection and defense against many attacks, it's important that our networks are protected in the Radware cloud."
"Radware DefensePro is one of the best solutions for on-premise protection."
"A valuable feature is the speed of signature updates."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"I would like to have more granular steps according to protected bandwidth, so the granularity should be better."
"It could incorporate more intelligence for reacting with web site visitors."
"I would like to see more focus on layer seven protection."
"It would be ideal if they could expand protocol support to cover emerging communication standards and ensure comprehensive protection against diverse attack vectors."
"I would like to see better implementation of a zero-day attack implementation strategy with self-mitigation."
"This product would be improved if ongoing live monitoring with dashboards were added."
"The dashboard could be updated."
"They should add artificial intelligence to the platform. It is currently missing the machine learning piece."
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while Radware DefensePro is ranked 5th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Radware DefensePro is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware DefensePro writes "Regular signature update with good reporting and analytics". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS and AWS Shield, whereas Radware DefensePro is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS, Fortinet FortiDDoS and Azure DDoS Protection. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Radware DefensePro report.
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