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Companies that want to improve security with a web application firewall

About F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF

Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) protect your apps with behavioral analytics, proactive bot defense, and application-layer encryption of sensitive data. Use the ROI Estimator from F5 and Forrester to find out how Advanced WAF can improve your security posture and save you money. The F5 F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF provides a powerful set of security features that will keep your Web Applications safe from attack. Many WAFs offer a basic level of protection from attack at the higher layers of the OSI stack, but the F5 Advanced WAF takes things even further and offers some serious security features like Anti Bot Mobile SDK, Credential Stuffing threat feeds, Proactive Bot Defense, and Datasafe to name a few. Protect your apps, APIs, and data against the most prevalent attacks such as zero-day vulnerabilities, app-layer DoS attacks, threat campaigns, application takeover, and bots.

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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 4.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5
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F5
Founded: 1996
United States
www.f5.com/products/big-ip-services/advanced-waf

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F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF Product Features

Web Application Firewalls (WAF)

Automated Attack Detection
Zero-Day Attack Prevention
Alerts / Notifications
Dashboard
Reporting / Analytics
Managed Rules
Access Control / Permissions
DDoS Protection
Secure App Delivery
Automate and Orchestrate Security
Virtual Patching
Server Cloaking
IP Reputation Checking
OWASP Protection

F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF Verified User Reviews

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  • Harish Kumar B.
    Senior Technical Engineer
    Used the software for: 2+ Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User, Administrator
    Company Size: 5,000 - 9,999
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    Ease
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    "A Comprehensive Solution for Web Application Security"

    Posted 2024-11-21

    Pros: WAF provides comprehensive protection against the top 10 OWASP attacks.
    It adapts to evolving threats with the traffic learning patterns and suggests the best practices.
    It provides security for the HTTP/HTTPS traffic, which helps in identifying and mitigating the attacks that bypass the traditional network firewalls.
    It has built bot-defense mechanisms that detect and block the malicious bots.
    F5 WAF can do SSL offload, which increases the application's performance.

    Cons: The pricing is slightly higher when it comes to procuring the licenses for smaller organizations.
    It takes a lot of time to enforce the application to block, which involves tuning the policies as per the application requirement.
    There will be some delay in providing the security signatures and rules, This delay can expose the application in some instances.

    Overall: This is essential for enterprises that need comprehensive security for web applications. This tool provides strong protection against the wide range of attacks that will cause your applications. But consider that the smaller organizations have the cost factor to procure it. Also, need to check the complexity before implementing this for an infrastructure.

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