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We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and F5 Silverline Managed Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Q&A Highlights
Question: F5 vs. Imperva WAF?
Answer: Firstly, implementing WAF is an excellent decision. With application logic and date being at the core of the technology stack value, WAF is the most reasonable place to monitor application traffic and defend from hacker's attacks. I have recently published a blog post on the issues one needs to consider when selecting a WAF. In addition, here are some thoughts on the specific questions you are asking Both F5 and Imperva are excellent WAF offerings with long track records and both will likely do a good job detecting known OWASP 10 threats. That said, both F5 and iMPERVA are signature based WAF technologies. For zero-day threats for which no signatures exist, no protection is provided until someone creates a signature and is able to write a rule for protection. For more agile 0 day threat protection you may want to consider a machine-learning driven solution which creates application-specific security rules automatically. As far as administration is concerned, F5 natively integrates with the application delivery system (ADC) which makes deployment & routing administration easier. The other aspect of the administration is addressing false positivies that WAF generates to avoid interfering with normal application operations. Because of false positives, many of the iMPERVA and F5 customers deploy these solutions in non-blocking mode with the main goal of providing visibility. Deciding which detected incidents require action is what requires the bulk of administration by security experts with deep knowledge of web application code and web application security. On the subject of costs and benefits, a lot of the benefits of the traditional WAF systems are centered around compliance. These are often hard to quantify but are the cost of doing business. Other than that, costs of WAF, as with most security solution, come less from the cost of the licenses and more from the cost of administering the solution and putting in integrations with other systems to derive real benefits. Again, machine learning-based system can help here with an automated and continuous approach. Essentially such system performs the jobs of a Red Team and a Blue Team in AI. Overall, both iMPERVA and F5 are good solutions, but before making your final decision consider if you want to go with a signature-based WAF or deploy a machine-learning driven solution like Wallarm.
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Pros
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good.""We like the capability to combine the content switching with the intrusion prevention and adding the security roles, so we can expose certain sub-pieces outside without exposing everything.""The solution is very easy to use and easy to understand. It's quite an intuitive system.""The most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize.""We're able to do load balancing and global load balancing. When you marry those two products together, you can do a lot more. We're able to deliver our applications more securely and faster. It has improved our deliverability where we have more service across the shared data centers. We can intelligently reach all of those client connections across all of the servers and do it fairly quickly. It has helped improve our application delivery and performance.""The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure.""It is a scalable solution.""It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."

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"F5 technical support is really good.""The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture.""Most vendors fulfill the requirements for standard DDoS protection, but F5 Silverline Managed Services has a better understanding of defending web applications like HTTP and can mitigate more bot activity than any other vendor.""The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process.""The product’s UI is easy to understand.""Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do.""We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents.""The most important feature is that they have seven firewall protection, to protect our web servers."

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Cons
"The product is expensive.""The UI could be improved.""Technical support could be improved.""I'm not very sure about the security with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). We have our own private data center, but we are going to migrate our private data center into the Azure cloud environment. Security will then be a major concern when we migrate our own whole infrastructure to the public cloud.""F5 BIG-IP LTM can improve on the SSL loading which includes the authentication of certificates. Although, most of these issues have been solved there are still some issue that persists.""Needs to provide a visual interface to follow a customer's activity (from client to BIG-IP to SNAT IP to the chosen server, then back). Today, we are still performing packet captures.""A more intuitive interface would be helpful.""A more hybrid approach would be beneficial for users."

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"The navigation is difficult to use.""The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better.""F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price.""The product could be improved on the global load and the integration with the other solution like Cisco and Dell. As a representor of the operation, we prefer to have one platform which can accommodate all type of integration. We are also looking for more improvements in the security policy configuration.""You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell.""There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution.""The price is high in comparison to other products.""There is a lot of room for improvement with their tech support. I am not sure F5 Silverline Managed Services can be classified as having tech support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Though functionality is high, its cost can be considered slightly higher than its competitors​."
  • "The licensing pricing seems relatively easy enough to get your head around. I would advise anyone to ensure that you have a conversation with an F5 consultant before purchasing, as you would with most products."
  • "Take a look at the modules that you are going to use. Look into the best bundles for them."
  • "The only area that has room for improvement would be pricing, so its competitors do not have a say."
  • "If your IT budget is good, go for it."
  • "This product is costly from a licensing perspective considering its competitors."
  • "Check other vendors like Cisco, Citrix or A10 Networks. There are plenty in the market with which you can achieve same thing."
  • "Great product for the money. But they can get really expensive, so get what meets your needs."
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  • "F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works based on your bandwidth. They look at the clean bandwidth and do the pricing. 20% of a total pipe would be a clean bandwidth. The list price or a non-negotiated price for F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall would be around $2,200 per application per year for everything that you need. When you get into an enterprise kind of a setup, they negotiate this to the last bit. I would easily take 20% on that, which would be the cost, but it should cover all your Advance WAF features, bot protection, tech campaign, etc. It is built as a package and gives you most of the capability. You don't get the mobile SDK, which is an additional license. Mobile SDK is required only if you're buying or if you have a mobile application, and you are going to instrument F5 or Imperva into your mobile appliance. This anyways would be an additional module. It doesn't come within the WAF, but it is a WAF feature."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better, they are not very flexible. The price of the solution is based on the requirements of the enterprise."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be reduced."
  • "The product’s pricing is reasonable."
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    Answers from the Community
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    Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri - PeerSpot reviewerSyed Ubaid Ali Jafri (Habib Bank Limited)
    Real User

    In order to achieve the core objective of a WAF (Web Application Firewall) definitely you are focusing on the External Facing application, for external facing application IMPERVA INCAPSULA has a high ratio of payload collector which identify and capture the payload entered by the malicious user without tempering the original content of a Payload. Once the paylaod has been captured, you can easily block the content appeared in the payload and this can be done automatically as well. Another good feature of this WAF is even if a malicious user is using NAT environment or Proxy based environment it will show the A.S (autonomous System) of the last region and also in some cases reveals the NAT IP Address from where the payload is actually captured.

    it_user464574 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user464574 (System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees)
    Consultant

    Hi,

    Follow below.
    1. F5 has a protection to L7, but dont work as a sand-box.2. F5 has a nice GUI with many options to understand whats happen in real-time3. F5 isn't cheap but is cheaper than Imperva.
     Att,
    Fernando Camargo

    it_user558699 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user558699 (Network Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees)
    Vendor

    Hi!

    I don’t know anything about Imperva WAFs, but I can tell you that F5 makes security a high priority, and they respond quickly to threats with either recommendations on things to change or updates. Plus, F5’s products are very intuitive and have GUIs that make administration a breeze, as well as a large support community and KB to consult for command line stuff or more complicated administration via the GUI. F5 products do cost a lot, though, and I would say that’s the main drawback.

    Regards,

    ​​​​​Ethan McGuire

    it_user694383 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user694383 (SVP, Technical Operations at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees)
    Vendor

    You'll need to weigh your specific requirements and ideally POC both solutions. In our case, after having used both F5 and Imperva WAF solutions we found Imperva to be a more comprehensive fit for our needs.

    One of the primary issues with the F5 ASM solution was the performance implications on the load balancers for which it was enabled. If you have the option and budget, I'd suggest a review of Silverline vs. Incapsula to reduce the maintenance and administration overhead. This would have removed the performance issue from the equation for us.

    it_user186927 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user186927 (Director of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees)
    Real User

    Hi There;

    Yes I can help !

    That's a really good question as the answer is always 'it depends'.

    There's really no obvious vendor answer between Imperva and F5 - more pros and cons that you need to match to your use case checklist so I can throw out a fairly standard scouting report of the two and hopefully you'll spot which one more suits your WAF needs.

    Ps The first question I'd ask as a precursor is 'why do you need a specific WAF ?

    Many UTM / NGFW vendors (eg the Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint best of breed quartet) roll WAF as a standard service / feature and it's usually 'good enough'.

    Presuming you already have firewalls and a subset of their UTM sheet turned on - eg IPS, IDS, VPN,.....simply turn on WAF as the quickest and cheapest route to done.

    Second question is if starting from scratch why not look more at future state SDN solution like say Big Switch that offers a more flexible security policy workflow orchestration and automation approach to WAF and other services in your data scrubbing food chain.

    Back to F5 vs Imperva

    F5 Pros
    Cadillac - feature rich
    - highly programable, flexible
    - central APM suite extends to WAF
    - good for complex rules/policy
    - load balancing kingpin

    F5 Cons
    Overkill. - complicated to set up/maintain
    - high priced/skilled PS work
    - takes over your ecosystem and doesn't integrate well with others
    - expensive

    Imperva Pros
    Integrated Knitting - plays well in sandbox
    - good enough features for price
    - easier / cheaper

    Imperva Cons - service play vs product
    - more about ps team than polished product
    - unclear product roadmap, corporate longevity (ie buy out target)
    - lots of custom code, scripts to maintain in knitting

    There you go - it's a case of premium beer vs brew your own so depending on whether you are Fortune 500 or SME - budget vs on hand security design talent - that's dictates your direction on vendor vs any sort of Gartner MQ comparison....(IMHO)

    And please see questions 1 and 2....I see WAF as not existing in a couple of years - either absorbed as a commodity by UTM space or greatly improved by SDN space

    Karl

    it_user685098 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user685098 (Head of Business Development at Loadbalancer.org)
    Vendor

    Imperva are a market leading WAF vendor, whilst F5 are a market leading load balancer (ADC) vendor. That said, the F5 WAF is awesome, and will offer all the security functionality you're ever likely to need. My advice would be to do some homework on price, as both options will provide an intuitive interface and offer excellent threat response times.

    it_user444444 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user444444 (Works)
    Vendor

    We really have experience in WAF solutions, but our main Partner is Akamai KSD(Kona Site Defender) and in our opinion is the more completed solution in these market

    About F5 and Imperva solution I can’t answer those questions.

    Regards

    Ricardo Zovaro

    it_user527007 - PeerSpot reviewerit_user527007 (Business Development Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees)
    Real User

    The answers are not so simply because seems to be.
    In very draft – for the moment I’ ll be back in details later – my answers :

    1) Security  Both are very good solutions, with a huge amount of successful cases. The “response” is something that we can discuss it. We have cases with the one is better than the other and reverse. If you discussing about the response when you are opening a ticket for example, our experience says F5.
    2) Depends on what experience the engineer has. I mean is not a crystal clear to say one or the other. The ways that F5 works is by far more powerful than IMPERVA.
    3) Well, if we would have this discussion 2 years before the answer would be IMPERVA. BUT F5 made a great job these two years, with a huge investment regarding the Cloud and also the functionality. The disadvantage is scaling license of F5 because the F5 upgrades the FQDNs in 5. On the other side IMPERVA upgrades in 1. Another disadvantage is that F5 has no less than 50 MBps license (regarding the SilverLine solution), when IMPERVA starts from 1MBps

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    1. F5 ASM - Web Application Firewall Solution

    F5® BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM) is a web application firewall (WAF), deployed in more data centers than any enterprise WAF on the market. With advanced firewall capabilities, it secures applications against layer 7 distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, malicious bot traffic, and application vulnerabilities where other WAFs fail. Built on F5’s industry-leading Application Delivery Controller with the F5 TMOS® operating system, BIG-IP ASM delivers flexible and comprehensive protections wherever apps reside and without compromising performance—all on a platform that consolidates application protection and access management.

    BIG-IP ASM is uniquely offered as an appliance, virtual edition, and as a managed service, providing automated WAF services that meet complex deployment and management requirements while protecting your apps with great precision. It is the most effective solution for guarding modern web applications and data from existing and emerging threats, and maintaining compliance with key regulatory mandates.

    Key Benefits

    F5 BIG-IP® Application Security Manager™ (ASM) is an advanced web application firewall that protects critical applications and their data by defending against application-specific attacks that bypass conventional firewalls.

    BIG-IP ASM is a flexible web application firewall that secures web applications in traditional, virtual, and private cloud environments. It provides unmatched web application and website protection, helps secure deployed applications against unknown vulnerabilities, and enables compliance for key regulatory mandates—all on a platform that consolidates application delivery with data center firewall capabilities, and network and application access control.

    Deliver comprehensive security
    BIG IP ASM blocks web application attacks in minutes, to help protect against a broad spectrum of threats, including the latest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and SQL injection attacks. It also helps secure interactive web applications that use the latest coding, such as AJAX widgets and JSON payloads. Advanced vulnerability assessment integrations can scan web applications and BIG-IP ASM patches vulnerabilities in minutes to help protect against web threats. BIG-IP ASM stops hackers and attacks from any location and ensures that legitimate users can access applications.

    Achieve compliance cost-effectively
    Advanced, built-in security protection a demote auditing help your organization comply with industry security standards, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, Basel II, and SOX, in a cost-effective way—without requiring multiple appliances, application changes, or rewrites. Detailed PCI reporting determines if PCI DSS compliance is being met and it guides administrators through the necessary steps to become compliant.

    Get out-of-the-box protection
    Equipped with a set of pre-built and certified application security policies, BIG IP ASM gives you out-of-the box protection for common applications such as Microsoft Outlook Web Access, Lotus Domino Mail Server, Oracle E-Business Financials, and Microsoft Office SharePoint. A rapid deployment policy secures any internal or third-party application.

    Improve performance
    Unlike many other security solutions, with BIG IP ASM you don’t have to choose between security and performance. The F5 TMOS® architecture provides significant performance advantages, including SSL offload, caching, compression, TCP optimization, and more. BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ integration enables protection from DDoS and other network attacks, and delivers data center firewall capabilities. And because BIG IP ASM works on the same platform with other BIG IP® modules, you can benefit from centralized, secure access control and even greater performance improvements.

    BIG-IP ASM Features and Specifications

    The volume and sophistication of attacks makes keeping up-to-date on security threat types and protection measures a challenge for application administrators and security teams. With industry-leading capabilities, predefined signatures, and superior flexibility, BIG-IP ASM delivers advanced, cost-effective security for the latest interactive Web 2.0 applications.

    BIG-IP ASM secures any parameter from client-side manipulation and validates login parameters and application flow to prevent forceful browsing and logical flaws. It also allows organizations to effectively guard against existing and emerging Layer 7 application attacks—preventing costly data breaches, thwarting DDoS attacks, and maintaining compliance. BIG-IP ASM is the first leading WAF that supports the transition from AJAX/HTTP to Web Sockets for greater efficiencies and less overhead with bi-directional streaming data. BIG-IP ASM uniquely provides visibility into Web Socket traffic—enabling companies to transition to protecting chat sessions and streaming information feeds (such as stock tickers) from data exposure, tampering, and theft. Users benefit from an extensive database of signatures, dynamic signature updates, DAST integration, and the flexibility of F5 IRules® scripting for customization and extensibility.

    Organizations rely on BIG-IP ASM to protect the world’s most visited web applications wherever they reside, with the highest level of security and without compromising performance. BIG-IP ASM enables organizations to detect and mitigate layer 7 threats including web scraping, web injection, brute force, CSRF, JSON web threats, DoS-heavy URLs, and zero-day attacks—providing early warnings, while mitigating threats per policy. It automatically defends against multiple, simultaneous, volumetric application-layer threats including stealthy, low-bandwidth DDoS attacks. BIG-IP ASM also prevents execution of fraudulent transactions, stops in-browser session hijacking, and reports regular and repeated attacks from IPs.

    Using automatic learning capabilities, dynamic profiling, unique anomaly detection methods, and risk-based policies, BIG-IP ASM can impose needed protections to prevent even the most sophisticated attacks from ever reaching servers.

    WAF Security

    L7 DoS and DDoS detection including: HASH DoS, Slowloris, floods, Keep dead, XML bomb

    Yes

    Web scraping prevention

    Yes

    OWASP Top 10 prevention

    Yes

    Automated attack defense and bot detection

    Yes

    Advanced protections against threats including: Web injections, data leakage, session hijacking, HPP attacks, buffer overflows, shellshock

    Yes

    Geolocation blocking

    Yes

    IP intelligence reputation services

    Yes - with F5 Intelligence Services

    SSL termination with re-encryption

    Yes

    Security incident and violation correlation

    Yes

    Client-side certification support

    Yes

    Client authentication

    LDAP, RADIUS

    Database security

    Yes – with Oracle Database Firewall

    Response checking

    Yes

    Violation risk scoring

    Yes

    Web service encryption and decryption

    Yes – and with signature validation

    Device-ID detection and finger printing

    Yes

    Live signature updates

    Yes

    WebSocket traffic filtering

    Yes
    Integrated XML Firewall Yes
    ICAP Support for SMTP and SOAP Yes
    PCI Reporting Yes
    Data Guard and Cloaking Yes
    CSRF Protection Yes

    HTTP protocol security
    – Header name with no header value: Specifies that the system checks requests for valueless header names, which are considered illegal.
    – Several Content-Length headers: Specifies that the system examines each request to see whether it has more than one content-length header, which is considered illegal.
    – Chunked request with Content-Length header: Specifies that the system examines chunked requests for a content-length header, which should not be permitted.
    – Null in request headers: Specifies that the system inspects request headers to see whether they contain a Null character, which is not allowed.
    – Content length should be a positive number: Specifies that the system examines requests to see whether their content length value is greater than zero.
    – Bad HTTP version: Specifies that the system inspects requests to see whether they request information from a client using a legal HTTP protocol version number (0.9 or higher).
    – Host header contains IP address: Specifies that the system verifies that the request’s host header value is not an IP address.
    – Unparsable request content: Specifies that the system examines requests for content that the system cannot parse, which is not permitted.
    – Bad host header value: Specifies that the system inspects requests to see whether they contain a non RFC compliant header value.
    – Check maximum number of headers: Specifies, when checked (enabled), that the system compares the number of headers in the requests against the maximum number you specify.
    – Request Checks: Examine lengths (URL, Query strings, Requests, Posts etc), allowed methods (get, put, post etc), disallowed files types, mandatory headers.

    CSRF Protection
    Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks work by forcing the user to run unwanted actions on a website in which the user is currently authenticated.
    For example, an attacker may iframe code into a web object that forces the user to request a specific URL without the user's knowledge.
    When you enable the CSRF Protection feature in the security policy, the BIG-IP ASM system differentiates between legal requests and forged requests by generating and storing a unique session token in the BIG-IP ASM cookie. The BIG-IP ASM system then verifies the ingress requests, and attempts to match the HTTP parameter value with the BIG-IP ASM cookie value in the request.

    Web Scraping
    Web scraping is a technique for extracting information from web sites that often uses automated programs, or bots (short for web robots), opening many sessions, or initiating many transactions. You can configure Application Security Manager™ (ASM) to detect and prevent various web scraping activities on the web sites that it is protecting.

    Data Guard
    In some web applications, a response may contain sensitive user information, such as credit card numbers or social security numbers (U.S. only). The Data Guard feature can prevent responses from exposing sensitive information by masking the data (this is also known as response scrubbing).
    Note: When you mask the data, the system replaces the sensitive data with asterisks (****). F5 Networks recommends that you enable this setting especially when the security policy enforcement mode is transparent. Otherwise, when the system returns a response, sensitive data could be exposed to the client.
    Using Data Guard, you can configure custom patterns using PCRE regular expressions to protect other forms of sensitive information, and indicate exception patterns not to consider sensitive. You can also specify which URLs you want the system to examine for sensitive data.
    The system can examine the content of responses for specific types of files that you do not want to be returned to users, such as ELF binary files or Microsoft Word documents. File content checking causes the system to examine responses for the file content types you select, and to block sensitive file content (depending on the blocking modes), but it does not mask the sensitive file content.

    Reporting and Analytics

    Customizable charts and reports

    Yes

    Security overview report
    Yes – drill down capabilities to granular details

    Combined network and application attack report

    Yes – with combined BIG-IP AFM and BIG-IP ASM deployment

    WAF health monitoring

    Yes

    Compliance support

    PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOX, Basel II

    Automatic policy sync between WAF devices

    Yes

    Layer 7 DDoS Protection

    – Proactive Bot Defense during attacks (this feature requires JavaScript support from the browsers): defense against bot attacks by detecting and stopping them before the attacks start to grow, by performing the following:
    • The system sends a client-side JavaScript challenge to the browser.
    • If the challenge is met, the system adds a cookie to the second request. This cookie is active until the session ends, and the system does not add any more cookies to further requests during that session.
    • The system drops requests sent by browsers that do not answer the system’s initial JavaScript challenge, assuming they are bots that do not support JavaScript.

    – Bot Signatures: Allow requests from legitimate (benign) bots and malicious bots to bypass the proactive bot defense and give them visibility in the reports.

    – TPS-based DoS Detection. Configures the detection of DoS attacks based on high volume of incoming traffic.

    – Stress-based DoS Detection. The system automatically detects an increase in server stress and mitigate DoS attacks causing it.

    – Client Side Integrity: Τhe system determines whether the client is a legal browser or an illegal script by sending a JavaScript challenge to each new session request from the detected IP address, and waiting for a response. (Legal browsers are able to respond, while illegal scripts cannot.) Client Side Integrity can be enabled in several attack types whenever TPS is suspiciously increased.

    – Behavioral protection: Enables the system to automatically detect Layer 7 DoS attacks using behavioral data, characterize the offending traffic, and automatically mitigate the offending traffic.

    – Heavy URLs protection: This feature allows protecting Heavy URLs during DoS attacks. Heavy URLs are a small number of site URLs that might consume considerable server resources per request, even with a low TPS count. Heavy URLs respond with low latency most of the time, but may easily reach high latency under specific conditions. Heavy URLs are not necessarily heavy all the time, but are potentially heavy, especially during DoS attacks.

    – Brute Force Protection: The system considers it to be an attack if either the detection interval exceeds the history interval by a relative amount specified on this screen, or the failed logon rate reaches a specific number specified on this screen

    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The support from F5 BIG-IP LTM is good.
    Top Answer:There are a few licensing options available for F5 BIG-IP LTM. You can have a perpetual license which is a lifetime license. You then only need to renew the support, if you choose to open a ticket… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing must be more flexible. We get billed for firewalls based on the usage. It will be helpful if the solution provides such flexibility.
    Top Answer:For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you have to look for other ADC's like F5, Imperva, Radware, Fortinet, etc. 
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    Also Known As
    F5 BIG-IP, BIG-IP LTM, F5 ASM, Viprion, F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition , Crescendo Networks Application Delivery Controller, BIG IP
    F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, F5 Silverline DDoS Protection
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    Overview

    F5 BIG-IP LTM optimizes the speed and reliability of your apps via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on app and server and connection management conditions, and TCP and content offloading, BIG-IP LTM dramatically improves application and infrastructure responsiveness. BIG-IP LTM's architecture includes protocol awareness to control traffic for the most important applications. BIG-IP LTM tracks the dynamic performance levels of servers and delivers SSL performance and visibility for inbound and outbound traffic, to protect the user experience by encrypting everything from the client to the server.

    BIG-IP LTM provides enterprise-class Application Delivery Controller (ADC). You get granular layer 7 control, SSL offloading and acceleration capabilities, and advanced scaling technologies that deliver performance and reliability on-demand. The highly optimized TCP/IP stack combines TCP/IP techniques and improvements in the latest RFCs with extensions to minimize the effect of congestion and packet loss and recovery. Independent testing tools and customer experiences show LTM's TCP stack delivers up to a 2x performance gain for users and a 4x increase in bandwidth efficiency.

    F5's Silverline Managed Services is a SaaS solution delivering DDoS protection, managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, and managed Shape Security Fraud and Anti-bot solutions.

    Silverline services include 24x7 access to F5's Security Operations Center (SOC). F5's expert security professionals use F5 products with state-of-the-art security tools to ensure the best protection possible. As an add-on to Silverline DDoS or WAF services, Silverline Threat Intelligence integrates dynamic lists of threatening IP addresses to give context for policy decisions.

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    Riken, TransUnion, Tepco Systems Administration, Daejeon University, G&T Bank, Danamon, CyberAgent Inc.
    City Bank, Ricacorp Properties, Miele, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office
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    Buyer's Guide
    F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services
    September 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services and other solutions. Updated: September 2020.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and F5 Advanced WAF. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. F5 Silverline Managed Services report.

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