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What is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) is built on proven F5 technology to proactively detect and mitigate bots, secure credentials and sensitive data, and defend against application denial-of-service (DoS). Advanced WAF is offered as an appliance, virtual edition, and as a managed service—providing automated WAF services that meet complex deployment and management requirements while protecting your apps with great precision. It is the most effective solution for guarding modern applications and data from existing and emerging threats while maintaining compliance with key regulatory mandates. Advanced WAF redefines application security to address the most prevalent threats organizations face today: •Web attacks that steal credentials and gain unauthorized access across user accounts. •Application layer attacks that evade static security based on reputation and manual signatures. •New attack surfaces and threats due to the rapid adoption of APIs. •OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities

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A comprehensive web application firewall (WAF) that protects apps and data from known and unknown threats, defends against bots that bypass standard protections, and virtually patches app vulnerabilities.

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F5 is a multi-cloud application services and security company committed to bringing a better digital world to life. F5 partners with the world’s largest, most advanced organizations to optimize and secure every app and API anywhere, including on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. F5 enables organizations to provide exceptional, secure digital experiences for their customers and continuously stay ahead of threats. For more information, go to f5.com.

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"Industry leading solution for WAF"
F5 Application Security Firewall is a robust solution. You can enable WAF on the F5 Load Balancer with one click with a license. F5 presents to the...
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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

SSL offloading and and deep content filter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Vendor support some time annoying and also local support issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF):

I fully recommend this product for application security as continue get update with latest signature. Also stabilty of product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Almost all features for a WAF solutions are available with F5 AWAF solution.easy deployment and configuration through cli and gui. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

It provides the application security to the next level. Server-side security is ok, but application security is also of equal importance and it provides it. It is also very stable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

It is not very much user-friendly and cab be more intuitive for better reach of the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in application security and load balancing capabilities. Which befits the application availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Stability, support and scalability capabilities makes it more productive and seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Licensing policy is little bit tough after changing the perpetual license to per CPU costs, and ofcourse the tutorial of configurations that is not available anywhere except you have done the f5 certificates. Also at initial level anyone need expertise and as you spend time it gets easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Protecting the web applications in very secured manner for eg pro active bot defense, ip intelligence to block traffic from geo locations, and protect from all the top ten OWASP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

A single appliance has all the features which require a webserver service, WAF, Server load balancer, GSLB

It has iRule feature, where I can script my custom requirements where it does not support by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

For the advance reporting stuff, need to procure an additional system call BIG-IQ, which is not coming out of the box with BIG-IP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have deployed many Advance WAF solutions. it is ready grate. Server load balancing and WAF requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Advanced rules, policies and many more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Nothing to dislike. All are advance and hence very more policies is there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF):

One must can use for best security purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

For infra security purpose, to make all web application securely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Instant alerts , monitoring aspects and suggestions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nothing much costing as compared to other providers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Yes I will Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ddos attacks , identify the request based on region Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Regular updates for attack signature's ,protection against owasp top10 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Tmos commond line utility, false positive, traffic learning suggestion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF):

It has the ability to protect most of the internet vulnerabilities. It improves the organization standard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We don't need separate load balancer if we have f5 awaf . It prevent most of the internet facing vulnerability s Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

It is great to use both as a load balancer and web application firewall on a single screen. WAF is really advanced and powerful. I really like micro service feature, bot defense, dos protection features and they are awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

interface needs to be further improved, complexity removed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

All open applications are run on F5 with both load balancing and web application firewall features. We block against attacks with WAF. WAF has really been improved day by day and is now in great condition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

It has mitigation for OWASP TOP TEN vulnerabilities and easy to use GUI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Nothing sort , I dont have any dislike to mention on this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

it is good in stopping web based attack as well DDOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Granularity in configuration for asm policies making this product unique Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)?

Required skilled one to maintain the product at customer side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Securing application

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