--- title: F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Reviews meta\_title: 'F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 15 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Network Security url: https://www.g2.com/categories/network-security --- # F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) but has limited features. Are you part of the F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is a high-performance, full-proxy network security solution designed to protect networks and data centers against incoming threats that enter the network. Built on F5’s industry-leading BIG-IP hardware and software platforms, BIG-IP AFM provides a scalable platform that delivers the flexible performance and control needed to mitigate aggressive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and protocol attacks before they overwhelm and degrade applications and infrastructure availability. Natively a part of F5 BIG-IP AFM, F5 intrusion prevention system (IPS) performs Layer 5-7 inspection of incoming traffic and protects protocol and infrastructure against security incidents and exploits. BIG-IP AFM’s IPS solution reviews traffic for adherence to protocol standards, matching against known attack signatures. For service providers, BIG-IP AFM IPS does even more, protecting the network edge and performing traffic inspection and protocol adherence for prevalent service provider protocols such as SS7, Diameter, HTTP/2, GTP, SCTP and SIP traffic coming into the network over UDP, TCP, and SCTP. * * * Seller [F5](https://www.g2.com/sellers/f5-f6451ada-8c47-43f5-b017-58663a045bc5) Discussions [F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) Community](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-big-ip-advanced-firewall-manager-afm/discuss) Overview by Chase Abbott Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SolarWinds Observability](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SolarWinds Observability") SolarWinds Observability 4.3/5(863) ](https://www.g2.com/products/solarwinds-worldwide-llc-solarwinds-observability/reviews) [ ![Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security)](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security)") Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard Network Security) 4.4/5(294) ](https://www.g2.com/products/check-point-cloud-firewall-formerly-cloudguard-network-security/reviews) [ ![Palo Alto Networks Panorama](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Palo Alto Networks Panorama") Palo Alto Networks Panorama 4.5/5(48) ](https://www.g2.com/products/palo-alto-networks-panorama/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-big-ip-advanced-firewall-manager-afm/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 15 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) SK Sumit K. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/7/2023 "F5 AFM is powerful and advanced software based firewall" 4/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? F5 advanced firewall is software based firewall solution to provide network security. It can provide real-time visibility in to network traffic and can block traffic real-time. It also has intrusion prevention which is advanced security feature. It can be deployed in a wide range of network environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? It is premium product but still having some performance related issues. Overall its a powerful device with great features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? It provides the advanced network security in large networks. Better GUI interface for quick setup and configuration. Really advanced firewall in industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![David L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David L.") DL David L. IT Systems Engineer Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/15/2021 "Great Product and has met all our needs!" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? It has integrated well with what we have and replaced some really old software. It has been a great experience and given us everything we needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? Nothing so far.. the only thing was we had to have some help on the setup due to it being a little complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? giving extra security to some of our internal websites Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/16/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Networking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Networking") UC Verified User in Computer Networking Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/20/2019 ""Firewall Manager for Data Center"" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? As i am working with ISP Company i need to deal with firewalls.F5 Advanced Firewall Manager are most effective network-level security for enterprises and service providers.Connect securely to VPN within quick time.Connection times are fast and reliable.Web properties and applications in balance and maintain high accessibility level." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? I think cost is little bit high as compare to other firewall manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM): Secure protection for data center and cloud,Highly recomended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? \*Connection times are fast and reliable. \*It provides full SSL visibility,as well as network-layer and session-layer security. \*Advanced Firewall Manager gives fast and secure access as well as it is high performance firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Deanna C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Deanna C.") DC Deanna C. Support Team Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/14/2019 "Protection within an APP" 5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? This worked perfectly when remoting in form home. The system ensured protection for both my computer and computer remoting into. The benefit of protecting the companies data, and business, requires thinking about app security first and they excelled. Working for the company 5 years, in a manager role, we never has any security issues using this app. Easy to get in touch with people in support when there are issues. This is also available in any cloud which is a huge benefit as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? There were times it was difficult to log in, not sure if it came from f5 or that company I was working for. The system was slow at times too. This is great for companies with impertinent information. I don't have to many dislikes regarding this app since it was a huge positive for the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM): I think you're doing a great job, the only feedback is to make it faster! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? This allowed us to work from home and provide service to our customers. Helped connect us to our customers! As our mission statement reflected as always on and this app allowed us to hit our mission statement. This also solves problems for people that need to work from home due to illness or any issues of the sort. There is also a ton of training and information on their website for more information regarding best practices, how to use, and environmental concerns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Translation and Localization](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Translation and Localization") IT Verified User in Translation and Localization Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/8/2019 "F5 AFM works but use F5 WAF instead" 2/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? Ddos protection simple and out of the box. The concept of protection out of the box was very attractive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? dDos protection broke our applications due to timeouts specified in our web application the two were not initially compatable. The URL filters were very hard to implement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM): Be careful use the auto-learning functions and stick to it. Do not go too deep into URL filters as that can cause large sweeping impacts. Be careful if something breaks your application it maybe hard to find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Provides protection to large scale attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/12/2019 "F5 has a lot of potential" 3/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? When running smoothly, F5 is awesome. I’m able to access all of the files needed for my business, which is a must have. Makes me feel like I’m in the office sometimes even though I work remotely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? F5 has a lot to offer but it could use some improvements. Although it has improved a lot, the constant disconnection hurts as I work remotely and rely on it. I have determined through multiple sources that it is not my ISP but, in fact, F5. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Definitely great because as soon as we login, we have access to all of the applications we need to do our job. Also great to have as a remote user. Without it, I cannot do my job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Public Relations and Communications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Public Relations and Communications") UP Verified User in Public Relations and Communications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/14/2019 "Got rid of the product" 2/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? The consistency of appearence; specifically- that when it shows up I can be alerted of potential threats on my computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? I dislike the quality of the browser when this pops up. I’d like to adjust it in my settings but I don’t know how to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? I’m not solving any business problems per say; it’s moreso if managing my computer and my files to make sure that everything is safe and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") UG Verified User in Government Administration Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/3/2019 "F5" 4/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? I like that if handles firewall, active directory, logging controls, SSH, DDos Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? They might not be flexible especially then we're talking about corner cases. We had very special problem to fix with them once. They came to our place, told us that the problem is peace of cake. Two years later the problem is till there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM): It's a no brainier for agencies and firms that take security seriously. You don't have to do a thing since F5 will handle it for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? We're small government agency. F5 helps us to keep our team small Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite LN Loc n. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/9/2018 "A power application to manage network, firewall " 4.5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? There are a lot of function which meet my expectation, like setup fire wall, do a load balancing, easy to config redirect website... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? The price is little higher. At this time I don't have any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM): For large business I would recomend they used F% big ip. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? We have a big webserver, dxt system, to managed it separately is very consume time so this tool help us to centralization, configure firewall for my client website... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") UH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/12/2019 "Fantastic protection for all PC’s" 3.5/5 What do you like best about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? Great protection. User friendly and easy to load. Really filters things out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)? It can be hard to load at times but then will pickup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) solving and how is that benefiting you? Fighting viruses and other problematic sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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