F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Valuable Features

RP
Sr. Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

The solution's performance and granularity are very good. 

The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward. 

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Nabil Magdy - PeerSpot reviewer
IT security Engineering manager at Banque du Caire

The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration.

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RP
Sr. Architect at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Its performance and ease of use are valuable.

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Buyer's Guide
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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Michael GEgziabher - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Bank of Abyssinia

The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality.

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William Gonzalez - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Comercial at Ngeek Consulting "Suigeneris Tech"

The most valuable features of Advanced Firewall Manager are its effectiveness in protecting applications from DDoS attacks, ensuring service availability, and safeguarding against infrastructure and application-level threats. It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity.

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JM
Head: Cyber and Information Research Centre at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

The most valuable features of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) are the web gateway, load balancing, services, and applications available.

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Nazmul Huda - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer, Senior Executive Vice President at Midland Bank Plc

The platform has a valuable WAF feature.

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Ritesh-Bakhru - PeerSpot reviewer
Major Account Manager at Check Point Software

CGNAT is one of its strong areas. 

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Oleksii Pavlyk - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of the direction of ensuring the security of digital systems, electronic databases and networks at Ukreximbank

We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall).

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John Bayangos - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The security is quite good. It allows us to block certain addresses. 

It is stable. 

Support is quite helpful.

We have witnessed an ROI. 

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DejanBlagojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at Exclusive-networks

The protection is very useful. 

The solution is stable. 

Once you understand the logic, it's straightforward to set up. 

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OB
Executive of the Telecommunications Area at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it.

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HA
Senior Presales Consultant at Innovative Solutions

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated. 

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DG
IT Service Delivery Manager at Consys.it

The most valuable feature is that you can implement it in a positive or negative model. Most customers implement the protection with a negative model because implementing with a positive model is not simple. We need help from the development team.

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Md. Al Imran Chowdhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Analyst at Link3 Technologies

The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF.

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JH
Computer & Network Security Professional at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic, to see the increase in web traffic.

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SC
Contracted IP Development Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees

The DDoS is the solution's most valuable feature.

The support that the product offers is good. 

When you buy an F5 as an appliance, you are buying licenses as well. If you buy both LTM and AFM licenses, you can protect your servers in a one-off solution. You don't have to buy another firewall to protect your servers. It makes security really easy.

The decryption is great.

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it_user989274 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Datasure Solutions

I would have to say that F5 excels in all aspects of network protection. There are five modules and I have yet to use them all. I use the LTM that's Local Traffic Manager, then I've worked with APM or Access Policy Manager, and I've worked with AFM which is Advanced Firewall Manager.

 If I were a CPO of an organization, I would just get F5 in my infrastructure to perform all the network security activities. I could just do that if I have the budget rather than bringing in separate solutions like Barracuda from one vendor and then bringing one other solution from another vendor. This is a unified solution that is already integrated and optimizes performance.

F5 will do load balancing, security, act as the firewall and F5 excels in executing all of them. How it gets deployed depends on the customer and on what particular features the customers want. From a deployment perspective, F5 is excellent in all of them.

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RB
Founder / Senior Security Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great.

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JA
Technology Consultant / Cloud Security Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IPs.

F5 has many advantages.

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Buyer's Guide
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM). Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.