F5 Silverline Managed Services Other Solutions Considered

BK
Co-Founder and CTO at Cyber-CP Ltd

There are a lot of gray areas in WAF. If you take a look at the top ten WAF solutions, most of the WAFs in the market, or at least the advanced ones, do it right because the WAF technology is evolved.

If you look at bot protection, it is probably not everyone's game. I've seen Imperva doing it really well. If I masquerade a browser, for example, if I masquerade a Chrome browser by changing the agent files and make it look like Firefox, and then if I send a request to my F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall (or Imperva firewall), I would want to see if it identifies the real browser behind it. I've seen F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall (and Imperva) handling most of such cases well, but other WAF products in the market fail.

If you look at Imperva, their strength primarily is on the DDoS capability. In the volumetric attack part, Imperva scores or has at least a record of doing better than F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. Imperva is also in the public domain, so they have mitigated larger attacks than F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, but this is not something you can test in the lab. You wait for the doomsday, and then you do your actual test.

Overall, if you say F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall as a product, I would vote it over Imperva. It may be because I'm more inclined to work on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. I found working with it easier than Imperva.

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FA
Manager at a comms service provider

Before choosing F5 Silverline, we evaluated Cisco. We looked at Cisco because we have a partnership with them from R5 and Cisco.

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