# F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Reviews **Vendor:** F5 **Category:** [Web Application Firewalls (WAF)](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-application-firewall-waf) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About F5 Distributed Cloud WAF F5's Silverline Managed Services is a SaaS solution delivering DDoS protection, managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, and managed Shape Fraud and Anti-bot solutions. Silverline services include 24x7 access to F5's Security Operations Center (SOC). F5's expert security professionals use F5 products with state-of-the-art security tools to ensure the best protection possible. As an add-on to Silverline DDoS or WAF services, Silverline Threat Intelligence integrates dynamic lists of threatening IP addresses to give context for policy decisions. ## F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Reviews ### 1. Best tool for stopping OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavan sreevatsav A. | Cyber Security Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** - Among all the web applications firewalls it is the best to stop the most critical attacks. - The configuration is very complicated, however, it will help to configure with more options. - The vendor support is so good. The quick and immediate resolution. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** - The configuration is complicated. Need to have a strong understanding of the different configurational settings. - More no. of false-positive alerts. However, it depends on how the network administrator configures. **Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud WAF:** - I have a strong recommendation for organizations looking for WAF services. I think it is one of the best tools to secure web traffic. Nevertheless, organizations should have a better administrator to handle this. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Observed more false-positive alerts with default configurations. Vendors should fine-tune some configurations. ### 2. F5 stands for seamless services and performance **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav J. | Cloud Network and Security Senior Analyst , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** We use it over cloud and when it comes to cloud everything looks easy and seamless. Sliverline is best to reduce attacks over L7 Security they provide. Easy to setup a d upgrade. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** There always a new things to learn or improve. Log dashboard is something i would suggest where F5 should work on as it play very crucial part in operations to analyze or troubleshoot. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to manage L7 security on cloud to solve DDOS. We also use WAF tool which helps to solve malicious traffic from internet ### 3. best tool to secure your digital asset **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Opentech H. | Chief Executive Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** one window to manage all your SOC operations **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** at first its complicated to understand. so you have to understand many other services **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** i didnt give a shot for production products but will definetly try ### 4. I recommend it but you have to make sure no data shared with any entity **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Silverline does a good job providing standardized and robust protection of legacy apps that may not have been developed with the most up-to-date attack vectors in mind, with a simple implementation, great support, and a good dashboard to monitor incidents, **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** there have been multiple false-positives that have affected end users. **Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud WAF:** It is easy and useful **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** uses artificial intelligence to accurately determine in real-time if an application request is from a human or a bot ### 5. Silverline WAF **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhruv K. | Security Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** get real time data to protect apps which is very helpful **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Doesn't helps in layer 3 or 4 along with IPS to supress attacks through different ports **Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud WAF:** Its one of the best WAF TOOL which i have come across recently which solves the problem of malicious traffic entering web server quite to some extent **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in stoping external malicious traffic to bypass the web server. Helps a lot in stopping HTTPS related malicious traffic. ### 6. Silverline WAF comes with flexibility and controls to protect our environemnt **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viraj P. | Associate Lead - Application Security Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Easy integration with Big-IP load balancer **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Mainly the GUI needs to be improved when comparing to other solutions. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitor and log the audit/management/access events, apply static and dynamic policy to web servers providing service to external via the internet. ### 7. Intuitive and User Friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit G. | Assistant Manager Presales - Cybersecurity, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Simple onboarding process and multiple option to protect against diffrent attack vector. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** There is nothing you can dislike when you are using cloud based solution. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Securing my critical web facing application. Bot protection. Signatures updates not required at all. No dependency to maintain high availability and underlying hardware or os. ### 8. Fully managed firewalls **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Easy setup, top-notch protection and support. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Multiple extended outages on F5 side caused by the platform not being highly available. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitor and log the access events , apply static and dynamic policy to webservers providing service to external via internet. ### 9. Silver line as name suggested **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** It helps reduce surface attacks on Cloud with its support for L7 security **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Nothing like dislike but can expand to catching honeypot **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** L7 security on cloud to solve DDos intelligently. ### 10. I work as security analyst. My job is to monitor the logs and alert the stakeholders **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** The simplicity of the dashboard. Easy to monitor and check the alerts **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud WAF?** Sometimes it becomes complex while searching for logs **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud WAF solving and how is that benefiting you?** To check real time attacks on web applications ## F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Discussions - [What is the best way which i can use the tool with almost all functionality and at a moderate cost](https://www.g2.com/discussions/51393-what-is-the-best-way-which-i-can-use-the-tool-with-almost-all-functionality-and-at-a-moderate-cost) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View F5 Distributed Cloud WAF pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/f5-distributed-cloud-waf/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-30+17%3A21%3A30+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4e251f63-e49b-40b9-a4b8-4481dd1f26da&secure%5Btoken%5D=aefb97814801e58957b89db41f0251f596341c529d7ad7be8fc5dd70859dd35e&format=llm_user) ## F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Features **Administration** - Content Delivery - Dashboard & Reporting - Alerting **Analysis** - Logging and Reporting - Issue Tracking - Security Monitoring **Risk Analysis** - Blacklist and Whitelist - Vulnerability Assessment - Security Auditing **Controls** - Application-Layer Controls - Traffic Controls - Network Controls **Threat Protection** - Firewall - DDoS Protection - Malware Detection - Malware Removal **Functionality** - API / Integrations - Extensibility - Bot Traffic **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization ## Top F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Alternatives - [HAProxy](https://www.g2.com/products/haproxy/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (893 reviews) - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (578 reviews) - [Imperva App Protect](https://www.g2.com/products/imperva-app-protect/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (79 reviews)