We performed a comparison between F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) and F5 Shape Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."Most competitor's environments will have their appliance do a hard stop. This means they weigh traffic from real customers and that affects the overall business experience. F5, on the other hand, uses contextual information to be able to specify what is malicious traffic and what is real traffic. That comes from its pool of intelligence, and from its threat intelligence team."
"The user interface was recently changed in one of the latest versions, but we find it to be very good. The change was an improvement."
"F5 Shape Security's most valuable feature is performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of configuration."
"We've seen the rise of smaller entities, and their requirements grow by the day. Having the ability to give them appliances that fit their needs in terms of that small or medium-sized segment and the pricing they can handle would be something that's great to see."
"The solution needs better stability when it's utilized with virtual solutions."
"The tool's price is high."
"I want the solution's custom exclusion rules to be more granular."
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F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection while F5 Shape Security is ranked 7th in Fraud Detection and Prevention with 2 reviews. F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) is rated 8.0, while F5 Shape Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) writes "Excellent DDoS protection with responsive technical support and a straightforward setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 Shape Security writes "Easy to configure and blocks bot attacks for web users". F5 DDoS Hybrid Defender (EOL) is most compared with , whereas F5 Shape Security is most compared with Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare, Akamai App and API Protector, HUMAN BotGuard for Applications and F5 Silverline Managed Services.
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