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We performed a comparison between F5 Silverline Managed Services and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The most valuable feature is flexibility.""The initial setup is very straightforward.""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 product’s UI is easy to understand.""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 valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides.""The initial setup is straightforward."

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"The interface is user-friendly.""The setup was straightforward.""The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."

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"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price.""F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by adding features that Palo Alto has.""In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing.""I just hope the price can be cheaper.""You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell.""The price is high in comparison to other products.""There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution.""We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough."

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"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java.""Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints.""I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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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    Also Known As
    F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, F5 Silverline DDoS Protection
    Symantec WAF, Blue Coat Protecting Web Applications
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    Overview

    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.

    The Symantec Web Application Firewall (WAF) enables you to secure and accelerate your web applications.

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    City Bank, Ricacorp Properties, Miele, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office
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    Non Tech Company22%
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    March 2024
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    F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 35th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Imperva DDoS and WAPPLES.

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