We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) 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."We also use it by serving our customers' cloud signaling services with on-premise APS devices."
"Arbor DDoS is easy to use, provides effective blocking of DDoS attacks, and can be used for DNS, web, and main servers. Additionally, this solution is far easier to operate than others solutions, such as Fortinet DDoS."
"Predefined filters/techniques to easily stop the attacks and start mitigation."
"Arbor DDoS offers security features that automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks."
"It has an easy-to-understand GUI...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I like all the features together as a whole."
"The solution is flexible, easy to implement and has an efficient technical support team."
"We use it not only for DDoS detection and protection, but we also use it for traffic analysis and capacity planning as well. We've also been able to extend the use of it to other security measures within our company, the front-line defense, not only for DDoS, but for any kind of scanning malware that may be picked up. It's also used for outbound attacks, which has helped us mitigate those and lower our bandwidth costs..."
"The protection is very useful."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"The setup and functionality are fairly straightforward."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is all of my workers enjoy using it."
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"The most valuable features of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) are the web gateway, load balancing, services, and applications available."
"It is stable."
"For troubleshooting problems, it's not so intuitive. It's not straightforward. This is the core of their kernel, so they need to improve it a little bit... In F5 I have full control of everything."
"Auto mitigation is a feature provided when DDoS is observed on any of link/customer (configured under auto mitigation). It automatically starts mitigation with default filters. In default filter mode, there could be an impact on the customer’s link,"
"Implementation could be better."
"On the application layer, they could have a better distributed traffic flow. They could improve that a bit. For network data it is very effective, but the application layer can be improved."
"An improvement to Arbor DDoS would be to make evaluation licenses and virtual machines available."
"The implementation should be made easier."
"They should improve the reporting section and make it a little bit more detailed. I would like to have much better and more detailed reports."
"If we want to see live traffic, we can see do so. But once an attack that lasts for five minutes is done, the data is no longer there. It would be an improvement if we could see recent traffic in the dashboard. We can check and download live traffic, but a past attack, with all the details, such as why it happened and how to mitigate and prevent such future attacks, would be helpful to see."
"The solution doesn't really meet our requirements for an edge firewall."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"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 would have preferred to have support when we first started"
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Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 8th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Corero, Imperva DDoS and F5 Silverline Managed Services, whereas F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro. See our Arbor DDoS vs. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) report.
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