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."The stability is okay and we have not encountered problems with the solution."
"The solution is flexible, easy to implement and has an efficient technical support team."
"It has an easy-to-understand GUI...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Companies that live from their presence on the internet will get a very high return on investment from Arbor."
"Arbor has a global ranking in reliability and credibility. They are very unique and can respond to a very wide scope of threats from their global deployment."
"The product allows us to check real-time progress, including latency and network activities."
"The stateless device format means that the box is very strong for preventing DDoS attacks."
"With real-time packet capture features, you can easily and quickly response."
"F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager's most valuable feature is load balance. It is readily available and uncomplicated."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"It excels in preventing downtime and maintaining application performance, which is crucial for our clients' security and operational continuity."
"The decryption is great."
"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."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"There is some room for AI to take place."
"The implementation should be made easier."
"The solution's shortcomings are related to its documentation, so it's an area that needs to improve."
"The solution's IT support needs improvement."
"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."
"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,"
"The product could have end-to-end platform visibility."
"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."
"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."
"This would be absolutely the best network security solution if the price were not so high."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"The product is expensive."
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
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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 Palo Alto Networks WildFire, 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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