We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Fastly based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"The best solution for WAF."
"The most valuable feature is artificial intelligence and to get extra internal access."
"It is easy to obtain dashboard compliance because security policy views are included."
"This solution inspects your traffic and based on that, automatically create distinct qualities for you, so you can add this to the policy already created. That's what I like most."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its grand unity of the implementation, where you have the freedom to configure based on how it affects your use case or your organization. With the default setting of implicit deny, you can gradually start defining and deploying the tool to align with your environment, whether it is outdated, recent, or futuristic. This allows you to customize the solution to protect you from threat actors. You have the ability to define what the advanced threat act should do - whether it should alert, deny, or both - and it will deliver based on your configuration. Unlike other online solutions, F5 Advanced WAF provides flexibility to deliver to your unique environment the way you want."
"We can monitor IP locations, but we have constraints from each country. It has a replication feature. Licenses can be shared, taking turns with each license."
"iRules are quite appealing when it comes to F5."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"I would like to see additional controls."
"The accuracy of the automatic learning feature needs improvement."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"The solution should include protection against web page attacks like what is available in FortiWeb."
"Nevertheless, F5 products are generally considered to be hard to deploy."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Support is not that great."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Fastly is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 Silverline Managed Services, whereas Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and Imperva DDoS. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Fastly report.
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