# F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) Reviews **Vendor:** F5 **Category:** [Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-security-monitoring-and-analytics) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 44 ## About F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) 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 ## F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) Reviews ### 1. Works, but slight annoyances **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brad S. | Information Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** The application provides seamless integration between systems on campus and systems off campus, as well as integrating with the campus-wide firewall and authenthication. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** When a session ends, you can't just simply log back in. If you do, it'll almost certainly kick you back out. You have to remember to close a window, then reconnect. Annoying. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The largest problem is wholesale integration with systems, and then broad marketing to users in a large organization on actually using the product. CS tickets increased quite a bit for normal every day users. ### 2. With Threat Stack, its relatively easy to accelerate our compliance & streamline security audits **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shreya B. | Cloud Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2022 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** Threat Stack gives us comprehensive cloud security & compliance management through its event-based monitoring feature. We can conveniently monitor our host instances, containers & K8 deployments in its centralized observability platform. It also provisions compliance & security governance for every telemetry layer of our cloud environments. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** Threat Stack effectively provides an intrusion detection platform that effectively filters out false positives & allows us to focus on critical alerts. All alert noise can be suppressed by simply using its predefined rule sets, thereby reducing our time & effort. Hence with Threat Stack, we can quickly identify anomalous behaviors in our cloud infrastructure. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compared to other cloud security & compliance management platforms, Threat Stack is quick to process Mean-Time-To-Detect (MTTD) & Mean-Time-To-Know (MTTK) metrics. We evaluate our compliance audits from its compliance monitoring reports & opt for proactive risk reduction approaches. It also provides excellent remediation recommendations with rich cloud security insights & best practices to track suspicious activities & misconfigurations accurately. ### 3. F5 Cloud AIP **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2023 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** Helps in precise monitoring of resources within the cloud environment and provides relevant alerts in case a vulnerability is observed. Analytics and dashboard helps in identifying the risks. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** The User Interface can be enhanced. Shortcuts should be provided to reach a particular resource rather than clicking through the traditional way. Integration can be made easier. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quite helpful in operational and security related monitoring of cloud based resources. Investigating vulnerability related alerts helps in avoiding security risks and assists in its remediation. ### 4. Provides VPN Solutions **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2023 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** 1. I used this app to access VPN 2. Secure 3. I could access all my office related stuffs and it was fast too **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** There were frequent disconnections observed while using, but that is not a major con **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides faster and secure solution to access office contents. It is easy to use and no proper knowledge or learning is needed to use this application. I used this app as VPN. ### 5. Threatstack Oversight Delivers on Managed Threat Detection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2020 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** All of our production applications are hosted with AWS and Threatstack is a cloud native platform designed from the ground up to monitor threats in cloud environments. This includes not only your compute instances, but also the cloud management platform itself. It was fairly easy to deploy and since it is a SaaS we don't have to manage it. With their Oversight service, they act as our SecOps team, monitoring our environment, analyzing events, and escalating to our organization when necessary. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** 1. I wish they had better reporting capabilities in the tool itself. 2. I would like to see better integration for Windows workloads. 3. For compliance purposes, it would be nice if there was an option to store all events for 1 year in the tool itself. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides us with 24x7x365 monitoring of activity within our cloud environments. The Threatstack SOC analyzes all alerts and only escalates to us when there is a real issue. It also helps tremendously with our PCI requirements. ### 6. Working with Threat Stack has been fantastic. They are knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josh G. | Principle DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** Threat Stack's team makes me feel valued and is aways looking out for our needs. Threat Stack is more than just a Software as a Service; Service comes first and their team is always available to answer questions, provide advice and consultation on a broad range of security questions. Our account manager checks in with my team on a monthly basis to ensure that we're getting the best possible value from the service, see what Threat Stack can be doing better, and help me feel secure in the constantly changing world of DevSecOps. He has gone above and beyond to help us with external audits, requests from customers, ecurity policy writing and planning FedRAMP inititives. Threat Stack is open to suggestions and tracks every feature request I have on these calls; many have already been implemented, leading to increased ease of use and functionality for my team. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** I often wish some of my RFEs were handled in a more timely manner, but I recognize that between the Covid-19 pandemic and Threat Stack's recent product release of ThreatML, their engineering team has had higher priorities. I am very optomictic about the new ThreatMl product, but in it's initial version I feel there's a few shortcomings which prevent it from being immedietly useful to my team. These are minor issues, in general Threat Stack is a great partner for our needs and these areas for improvement do not detract from my experience as a satisfied customer. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Threat Stack allows us to ensure that activity on our Enterprise servers is authorized, that software patches are up to date, and that server are compliant with our Security policies. Threat Stack enables us to be compliant with the heavy regulatory requirements within our field and allows us to undergo customer audits with cofidence. Threat Stack has allowed us to harden our servers, ensuring that all management connections are authorized and that no rogue agents have compromised our engineer's workstations or credentials. ### 7. Great experience, easy to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolás E. | Cloud Engineering Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** I like you can apply a set of rules already predefined for SOC2 **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** After the tool is reporting a vulnerability, if I fix it just right after, I need to wait until the other day to see the fix reflected on the report, so I do not like that I can not trigger a scan on demand. I'll like to have a Jira integration, so when the tool is reporting a vulnerability can also filla ticket to track it, reporting is good but for goind beyond the line it will be good to report the vulnerability and also create a ticket like an action item for the team **Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP):** The product is great, the setup is super straight forward, and the set of rules you can apply will make your life easy; we were using it for classic ec2 instances, but after moving to k8s we lose some features, the tracking for ssh is not so good as we had in classic ec2 implementation **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** IDS and FIM for being SOC2 compliance ### 8. Amazing Cloud Security Monitoring / Compliance Platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian P. | Site Reliability Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** There are a lot of things to like about the entire platform. After getting familiar with the dashboard, it was very insightful to take a glance and have a brief overview of your cloud. The Threat Stack Oversight service was beneficial for us as our team wasn't very big. We got time back to work on other important initiatives and don't have to worry about low level alerts. They helped with detecting and triaging high-severity issues and investigate alerts on our behalf. Overall I would definitely recommend this to other people using Threat Stack. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** The learning curve was a bit steep. We had a few training sessions with one of their engineers that helped us tuned alerts and reduce noise. While the dashboard is good for quick glances, digging deeper requires a bit more effort. I find myself having to switch between the AWS console, ThreatStack, and other tools to get a better understanding of what is happening. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a way to audit out AWS environments. Threat Stack helped us help do security monitoring and compliance. The oversight service also helped us find security issues that we had in our environment that we probably wouldn't have found out about otherwise. ### 9. Great customer service and experience with Threat Stack! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael S. | Director of Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** We are running a security-mindful business with a small engineering team. Threat Stack has been an excellent addition to our layers of protection. We can all sleep better knowing that automated alerts are watching out for us. **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** The product comes with a vast number of alert options out of the box. It's a bit overwhelming at first. But after spending some time configuring things (with great support from Threat Stack!), we are now comfortable that only actionable alerts remain. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Threat Stack to monitor our servers for intrusions and suspicious modifications. That's one less thing to worry about with a small engineering team that can focus on delivering customer-focused features instead. ### 10. Fantastic product and quality services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonni L. | Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2021 **What do you like best about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** The monitoring and incident management services. They are proffesional, clear, and efficient **What do you dislike about F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP)?** The work it takes to adapt the product to your needs during onboarding **Recommendations to others considering F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP):** If you are looking for a great partner to address the incoming threats to your organization, Threatstack is a great choice. **What problems is F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use threatstack for threat monitoring and response. It is a critical tool in our incident management toolbox for not just responding to an incident but making sure we are the first to know. ## F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) Discussions - [Is ThreatStack an ids?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-threatstack-an-ids) - [What does a Cspm do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-a-cspm-do) - [Is Threat stack a SIEM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-threat-stack-a-siem) - [What does Threat Stack do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-threat-stack-do) ## F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) Features **Management** - Dashboards and Reports - Administration Console **Administration** - Security Auditing - Configuration Management **Security** - Compliance Monitoring - Anomoly Detection - Cloud Gap Analytics **Activity Monitoring** - API Monitoring - Activity Monitoring **Configuration** - Configuration Monitoring - Unified Policy Management - API / Integrations **Cloud Visibility** - Cloud Gap Analytics **Operations** - Logging and Reporting - API / Integrations **Monitoring** - Continuous Image Assurance - Behavior Monitoring - Observability **Compliance** - Sensitive Data Compliance **Security** - Compliance Monitoring - Risk Analysis - Reporting **Security** - Security Auditing **Security Controls ** - Anomaly Detection - Security Auditing - Cloud Gap Analytics **Protection** - Dynamic Image Scanning - Runtime Protection - Workload Protection - Network Segmentation **Administration** - Auditing **Administration** - Security Automation - Security Integration - Multicloud Visibility **Vulnerability Management** - Threat Hunting - Vulnerability Scanning - Vulnerability Intelligence - Risk-Prioritization **Identity** - User Analytics **Agentic AI - Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection (AIP) Alternatives - [FortiCNAPP](https://www.g2.com/products/forticnapp/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (383 reviews) - [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (772 reviews) - [Orca Security](https://www.g2.com/products/orca-security/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (235 reviews)