Security has protected global apps and APIs and connects multi-cloud workloads securely
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for F5 Distributed Cloud Services is to protect web applications and APIs from attacks.
A specific example of how I use F5 Distributed Cloud Services to protect my web applications or APIs is that it uses F5 XC WAF to block bot-driven card testing attacks.
My main use case for F5 Distributed Cloud Services helps with those types of attacks by connecting workloads across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises, creating a secure global network fabric.
What is most valuable?
The best features F5 Distributed Cloud Services offers are global application delivery, multi-cloud networking, and DDoS protection.
The global application ready value of F5 Distributed Cloud Services helps us accelerate content delivery globally.
F5 Distributed Cloud Services has positively impacted my organization by providing secure access to all our internal applications, protecting our employee, partner, or contractor's access to the application, accelerating content delivery globally, and connecting workloads across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises to create a secure global network fabric.
What needs improvement?
F5 Distributed Cloud Services can be improved because the cost can be high, especially for premium platform pricing, which may exceed smaller companies that are working on tight budgets, and there is vendor lock-in.
F5 Distributed Cloud Services requires time to master the configuration of policies, networking, and security, making it time-consuming to learn.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using F5 Distributed Cloud Services for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
F5 Distributed Cloud Services is very stable, with no downtime.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
F5 Distributed Cloud Services is very scalable and grows with our organization's needs.
How are customer service and support?
F5 Distributed Cloud Services customer support is amazing, with a very dedicated and professional team. I would rate F5 Distributed Cloud Services customer support an eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I previously used a different solution before switching to F5 Distributed Cloud Services.
Before switching to F5 Distributed Cloud Services, we were using Cloudflare, but we migrated to F5 XC because it was simpler, more cost-effective, and an easy-to-deploy solution.
What was our ROI?
Since using F5 Distributed Cloud Services, we have seen a return on investment with a reduction in infrastructure cost by eliminating on-premises WAF appliances and increased security, avoiding breach costs, along with better performance leading to revenue growth.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for F5 Distributed Cloud Services is that everything is good and great.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing F5 Distributed Cloud Services, I evaluated other options, including Akamai Kona Site Defender.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using F5 Distributed Cloud Services is that it is a good platform that will protect all your clients, employees, and provide protection from any threats while also improving your company revenue growth.
F5 Distributed Cloud Services is a good tool and highly recommendable.
I found this interview to be great and have no suggestions for changes. I would rate this review an eight out of ten.
Protects web applications with comprehensive security features
What is our primary use case?
There are two main use cases for Distributed Call Services: DDoS or Distributed attacks protection and WAF web application security or firewall.
What is most valuable?
All features are valuable. In a multi-cloud or distributed cloud, there are many protection possibilities from data to web application or API protection, including bot mitigation. This is a comprehensive package for web application security. The main benefit is Web App Security, offering a complete security package from DDoS to web application firewall, API protection, and bot mitigation.
What needs improvement?
It's a long way to be perfect, of course, as with all solutions. The main issue is integration with other parts or products of F5, like on-premise WAF. There are some problems, mainly from the perspective of implementation and customer expectations, which sometimes differ from reality.
For how long have I used the solution?
I worked for an F5 partner, not as a customer. We used the Services line for DDoS protection. It was the main use case for Silver Line for about one and a half years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
There are compliance issues, mainly if a customer wants something that isn't possible, yet not with the functionality.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I have had no problem with scalability yet, so it's good.
How are customer service and support?
From my point of view, support is responsible and okay.
How would you rate customer service and support?
How was the initial setup?
Distributed code is easy to set up. If rated on a scale from one to ten, where ten means very easy, I would probably rate it a nine.
What other advice do I have?
For those who want to use Azure Cloud Services, consider implementing it. It's pretty good. From my point of view, it's easy to set up and offers strong functionalities.
The overall product rating is nine out of ten.
F5 Shape Bot
What do you like best about the product?
The F5 Shape Bot Defense is straightforward to use. You need to put it on your head, and it will do its job.
What do you dislike about the product?
My biggest complaint is that the bot is not always accurate when shooting the ball. Sometimes it will hit the ball too high or too low, and it doesn't always make contact with the ball.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
F5 Shape Security provides a bot defense solution that is helping to protect my online presence from bot attacks. This benefits me by helping to keep my online presence safe and secure from potential bot attacks.
Brilliant ! No wonder they are leaders in their space
What do you like best about the product?
From a biz perspective, dramatically reduces risk of online automated attacks, breaches of web and mobile apps
What do you dislike about the product?
Not easy to see, always gauge the efficacy of the solution. Not clear exactly what the AI algorithms are looking for
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
reduced hassles (friction) for returning genuine users of our systems
Protect vital web, mobile apps from fraud, breach and importantly abuse
Good security practices
What do you like best about the product?
They stay up to date on security issues and give that feedback.
What do you dislike about the product?
the complexity of the tools,from there the rest I see everything fine
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Remote administration of equipment, security with users, and that helps optimize time
Strong Cloud Security Platform
What do you like best about the product?
First of all, it is working entirely on a cloud platform and doesn't need a physical server. It has many platforms ready for engagement. Always keeps being updated for newer threats.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not so easy to set up for first time use. You will need a bunch of time or get support from F5 team. Also it's pricing is little bit higher than other compepitors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using F5 for our cloud security. Also we are planning to use it on our cloud platforms and solutions, too.
One of most used hardware loadbalancer
What do you like best about the product?
This f5 shape security helped us in avoiding frauds in our banking applications especially for scraping and unauthorised login
What do you dislike about the product?
I could see no issues or drWbacks with this
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I could able to automate the unauthorized loggin and eliminate the certain ip address requests coming to our web servers
F5 AI Protection
What do you like best about the product?
Application inspects the data traffic from end user to application which gives end to end traffic security using cloud based analytics on top of load balancers which is in demand in the world of IoT.
What do you dislike about the product?
At times it adds up latency at times as F5 Shape security is hosted on cloud and goes through different components of Shape system to determine the fraudulent request.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
F5 Shape security has been opted by clients to secure their applications from frequent malicious automation which traditional means of IP rate limit and CAPTHA fails. Overall it's excellent solution for security.
Solid network security software
What do you like best about the product?
Simple security authentication. Straightforward to login with.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the authentication can be messed up alongside other VPN software.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's a good VPN tool which simplifies authentication in to our network.
Security on point!
What do you like best about the product?
When it comes to infrastructure, security is of utmost necessity. Login plays a huge role. When it comes to login traffic, shape serves a heavy number of account and protects a lot of money in the process.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing much to dislike, I have used SAFE of shape personally and can vouch for the role that it plays in security aspect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
F5 shape solves the problem with login in infrastructure as well as in applications, helps protect users against fradulent attacks.
