We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Radware Bot Manager 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."Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"We like is how they integrate nicely with the Oracle PeopleSoft application."
"Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"It is a stable product from a stable company. Recently, they have been more focused on security as well."
"The solution is very easy to use and easy to understand. It's quite an intuitive system."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is a stable and reliable solution."
"it has TCP LAN and WAN optimization features. It has has caching."
"We have multiple solutions we can deploy through the F5."
"I like how Bot Manager automatically detects when a suspicious user attempts to download content from your website."
"It's very good at categorizing the different types of bots, whether they're malicious or good. Bot is a very generic term. It could be good, it could be bad. Quite a lot of legitimate businesses are using bot-type services to just scrape the internet for information."
"The solution provides a rating of the sophistication of the bot attack."
"Bot Manager is an excellent tool for analyzing traffic to detect suspicious patterns. It uses artificial intelligence to identify malicious behavior."
"Bot Manager's behavioral modeling and intelligence help us distinguish between harmless and malicious bots."
"The most valuable feature is the bot management itself and the way it has stopped bots from scraping our site, with its AI mechanism. Its ability to detect and mitigate bots is really good."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will be a challenge for us."
"Its price can be better. It is a bit expensive."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"In terms of native integrations, there is a lot of instability. Also, integration is not robust with F5."
"Bugs are the part of program and they are fixed with every release, as with any vendor."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"The price for F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is very high. This aspect could be improved."
"Radware Bot Manager is a little costly but not too expensive. It's in the middle."
"Bot Manager is doing its job, but I think the behavioral modeling could be improved by adding fingerprinting and automation. Remediation should be automated so that it doesn't require any intervention by the user."
"It would be good to have more integrations. It's very hard to get data in and out of their portal. It doesn't have any integrations with any of our tools, such as our SIEM tool. It only depends on emails. Having that tied into the warehouse, SIEM, and maybe our on-call tools would be very helpful because it would just give us a holistic picture of everything."
"I would like more ability to configure custom rules. Currently, I need to open a ticket with support to request a specific rule that isn't available in the console. In some cases, I don't have visibility into the logs or they are too complicated to analyze."
"It would be beneficial to have a link from the WAF to the Bot Manager portal available so we do not have to log in again."
"We're missing links to their modules for installation and configuration. They have most of them available already, but there were situations for mobile applications that, when they released a new version, were not stable. We had to ask them to send a link by email, and that could be made accessible in the portal."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Radware Bot Manager is ranked 3rd in Bot Management with 8 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Radware Bot Manager is rated 9.2. 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 Radware Bot Manager writes "Categorizes different types of bots very well and is very effective at detecting and mitigating bots in real time". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Radware Bot Manager is most compared with Fastly, F5 Shape Security, AWS WAF, Akamai Bot Manager and Cloudflare. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Radware Bot Manager report.
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