We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Radware DefensePro based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"It is stable."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"The decryption is great."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The product is very effective and performs well on devices."
"The DDoS protection that the solution provides is its most valuable feature."
"A flexible affordable solution for defense against DDos attacks."
"It has kept us up and operational on a day-to-day basis, without being interrupted by an attack from outside sources."
"The dashboard is the best part, and there is also the ease of operations."
"Radware DefensePro is one of the best solutions for on-premise protection."
"With the secure signature feature, the Radware DefensePro is a big assistance. It is a big help to our customers to improve their productivity and performance. The prompt response from the Radware team is definitely increasing in the new era."
"It offers valuable insights into ongoing and past attacks, aiding in post-incident analysis and continuous improvement of our cybersecurity strategy."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's pricing and technical support services need improvement."
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"We would like to have seven-layer functionality."
"The dashboard could be updated."
"As a service provider, we are expecting the multi-tenancy feature on the dashboard and reporting side. It will help share reports with customers in real-time. They can directly see them online. We are working with their team on API integration with our portal. We will be able to achieve that, but it will take some time."
"Right now, we have DefensePro 6. The only complaint I have is that SSL inspection, when activated, consumes a lot of resources on the machine. We are currently reviewing a possible change to DefensePro X, the new version, which has a separate module with its processors."
"I had some trouble in the registration account prior to deployment, but it was fixed. They were not very fast or responsive, however. It took about one week to resolve the issue."
"I would like to have more granular steps according to protected bandwidth, so the granularity should be better."
"This product would be improved if ongoing live monitoring with dashboards were added."
"I would like to see more focus on layer seven protection."
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while Radware DefensePro is ranked 5th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 23 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Radware DefensePro is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware DefensePro writes "Regular signature update with good reporting and analytics". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS and AWS Shield, whereas Radware DefensePro is most compared with Arbor DDoS, Cloudflare, Imperva DDoS, Fortinet FortiDDoS and Azure DDoS Protection. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Radware DefensePro report.
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