F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) Reviews & Product Details

Distributed Cloud AIP, formerly known as Threat Stack, is the leader in cloud security and compliance for application infrastructures, helping companies securely leverage the business benefits of the cloud with proactive risk identification and high-efficacy threat detection across cloud workloads. Distributed Cloud AIP’s application infrastructure protection helps organizations improve operational efficiency by delivering full stack security observability across the cloud management console, host, container, orchestration, managed containers, and serverless layers. Distributed Cloud AIP helps organizations efficiently detect known risks at scale and quickly uncover anomalies throughout the environment. Distributed Cloud AIP helps organizations stay secure through comprehensive security monitoring with a combination of industry-leading telemetry collection, a robust ruleset for known threats, and ThreatML for vulnerability and anomaly detection. Security Services Customers also have the option of leveraging our human expertise with Distributed Cloud AIP Insights and Managed Security Services, our in-house Security Operations Center (SOC) that provides 24/7/365 monitoring of your cloud environment. Through both options, Distributed Cloud AIP aims to deliver visibility and response capabilities across the full stack, allowing organizations to leverage the benefits of modern computing environments, securely. Coupled with other F5 Distributed Cloud Services, customers get application and infrastructure protection. Because applications and APIs are only as secure as the infrastructure they run on. To learn more, visit https://www.f5.com/cloud/products/app-infrastructure-protection

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Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

All-in-One

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Risa Nishimoto

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

14 months

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User Insights

Average based on 44 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

2 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

Typical contract price

$0k - $0k

Per Year

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/9/2020

"Great visibility out of the box"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

It's very easy to deploy. We had difficulties finding an agent that is low overhead and can run in containers and ThreatStack agent runs on our Container-based OS perfectly and provides excellent visibility into Audit events in the system. The rules are categorized into areas to help with Compliance (SOC2, ISO27k, HIPAA, PCI) and there's Configuration Audit option available. ThreatStack SOC oversight helps to filter out the noise and escalate actionable events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

It takes time to tweak the alert rules and suppress noisy false positives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/7/2020

"ThreatStack - HIDS Solution"

3.5/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

The way we can write rules and suppressions. Fits to custom needs. The default rule set helps in customizing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Could do better with UI to improve the usability of the tool specially with investigation of alerts and events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP):

Definitely easy to setup and use if you are administering it. It can get little tricky while investigations on events initially but once you get used to it, you should be fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using ThreatStack as a Host based IDS solution for our compliance environment(PCI). We can tune the monitoring rules as per our needs and grant exceptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/13/2020

"Helpful and Comprehensive, but Sometimes Confusing"

3/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Account managers are highly responsive and security analysts will provide comprehensive analysis of security alerts on request. The Oversight program does remove significant burden from our ops team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Actually configuring alerts, suppressions and view logs on your own is confusing and not very developer friendly. This issue is avoided if you sign up for one of their managed plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP):

Be prepared to use their managed plan. Managed things yourself is hard because they have poor documentation and the interface is not developer friendly or intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allowed our company to continue scaling without investing in a security team at this time. Helps us meet compliance requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Levi H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/14/2020

"Low Maintenance - High Impact - Sleep easy"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Having an actual person looking into our issues and reaching out to us (normally at the same time we are already looking into it) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

have had some issues in the past with their older agent causing issues on our linux boxes (resolved now) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anton Z.

IT Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/13/2020

"Threat Stack came a long way"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Ease of deployment and amofgdfg unt/quality of data being returned by TS agent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Dashboards is a weak point, while collecting a lot of data, it is not easy to visualize that data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP):

Good product, request a demo to ensure reporting and dashboarding meet your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?

IDS - we use TS to gain insight and visibility into our system and systems network elements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/13/2020

"Excellent choice for AWS security"

5/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Threat Stack monitors our security 24/7 freeing our staff to focus on their core competencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Threat Stack's vulnerability information relies on software version numbers. This provides an inaccurate assessment for most Linux systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitoring our security logs in AWS, providing system-level security monitoring, monitoring our AWS configuration for security issues. Threat Stack puts all the info in one place and makes it much easier to interpret the massive stream of data. The customizable rules also allow us to create event alerts for just about anything that happens in our cloud infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/16/2020

"Solid platform for aws threat detection, lacking features for other clouds"

3.5/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Their services team is amazing and really make working with the entire platform a joy. They are like an extension of our DevSecOps team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

The biggest issue we have is that they are primarily built around AWS workloads. We have workloads that run in all three clouds and there isn't feature parity between clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP):

Seriously consider leveraging the ThreatStack services in addition to their software, their service team is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use ThreatStack as a solution for a lot of our SOC2 controls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Derek G.

VP Systems Architecture

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/1/2020

"Great visibility into the system events happening in our servers' OS"

4.5/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

All syscalls are collected to be audited and alerted upon. Very easy to setup, simply install agents on your server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

Suppresion rules are not super flexible to effectively get rid of false positive alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/14/2020

"A Reassuring Watchful Eye"

4/5

What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

The platform is always there monitoring our configuration and events without much overhead, alerting us to crucial items quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?

The interface can sometimes be a little overwhelming in places Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP):

Using Threatstack will help ensure you're capturing the cloud events that matter and also give you the reassurance that if someone makes a mistake with a config it will be flagged up quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're able to identify events that matter and easily escalate them to the right team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.