Pathlock vs. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pathlock
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Pathlock provides a single platform to unify access governance, automate audit and compliance processes, and fortify application security. Pathlock helps complex organizations in the world to confidently handle the security and compliance requirements in their core ERP and beyond.N/A
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense (formerly Shape Defense, acquired January 2020) provides security to protect a website from bots, fake users, and unauthorized transactions, preventing large scale fraud and eroded user experiences. Companies get visibility, detection and mitigation outcomes to reduce fraud and cloud hosting, bandwidth and compute costs, improve user experiences, and optimize their business based on real human traffic.N/A
Pricing
PathlockF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
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Enterprise
Custom Quote
per year
Offerings
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PathlockF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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User Ratings
PathlockF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(19 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(19 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(11 ratings)
User Testimonials
PathlockF5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense
Likelihood to Recommend
PathLock
It is a very good software for securing your enterprise software. It helps you keep the access secure. It integrates over 100 applications. It monitors all user activity permissions and data security control all over our applications from one panel. PathLock can automate all user access reviews and can identify all sensitive data access to produce complaint reporting for SOX, CCPA, GDPR, and many more regulations. There is a high degree of automation in the software.
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F5
I'd strongly recommend it, but with a few caveats depending on how mature the team is with behavioral based security tools. One of our fintech clients was getting hit with low volume, widely spread login attempts, below our rate limiting thresholds. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense was able to flag abnormal input timings, inconsistent device fingerprinting and high entropy in field population behavior. You can only imagine the wave of downstream account lockouts this saved the client. On the other end we had a client with a real time trading platform using Graphql over websockets. F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense wasn't able to tap into that stream natively. we had to reverse engineer a proxy layer to inspect events. It worked but it was clunky and not officially supported
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Pros
PathLock
  • Access Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Policy Management Software
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F5
  • Quickly helps mitigate the retooling and newer advanced bot attacks
  • Excellent customer service from our f5 bot Defense team/partners
  • Easy to do Traffic Analysis/False Positive reviews with their dashboard of data
  • Our F5 Security/Solutions Architect and TAM is always there for us whenever we need them
  • First class service by the F5 Distributed Cloud Bot DefenseSOC, the Tactics Team, the F5 Testing person that helps us, the mobile SDK experts, the Client-Side Signals experts and F5 management
  • Industry best Threat Briefings
  • Not only is F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense great at stopping the advanced bot attacks, they also have protection against any tampering or replay attacks.
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Cons
PathLock
  • Experience some issues with certain devices.
  • Should be marketed more for more visibility and awareness
  • Should integrate more and more applications
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F5
  • On a technical side, we've had a lot of deployment issues. This is not a one-sprint solution.
  • We ran into undocumented failure modes and had to rely on L2 and L3 customer support, delaying troubleshooting significantly [in our experience].
  • Accurate log ingestion is a larger challenge than one would want in a security tool.
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Likelihood to Renew
PathLock
No answers on this topic
F5
We are more likely than not, to renew it. It saved us from a really huge data breach 4 months ago. It has earned its shower so far
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Support Rating
PathLock
No answers on this topic
F5
Official support can sometimes take time to reach the right people. However, once you are in contact with the appropriate experts, the support is excellent, as F5 staff are true specialists. On the other hand, we always receive prompt assistance from our local sales team, who typically help us connect with the right people quickly.
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Implementation Rating
PathLock
No answers on this topic
F5
Implementation of Distributed Cloud is accomplished a few different ways, it would pay to meet with the F5 team and map out your implementation prior to acquisition to make sure you Infrastructure and Operations teams are aligned to the approach and requirements.
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Alternatives Considered
PathLock
Not used any software apart from PathLock in this category
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F5
Clodflare bot management was our other obvious option for us. We tested it on a staging version of our RFQ platform. It was great for broad traffic filtering but had a hard time with nuanced differences between real subcontractors and low volume bots mimickingt human input whereas that's where F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense thrived
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Return on Investment
PathLock
  • Access to all applications and their user access permissions and data security controls through a single panel.
  • Automates Compliant Reports for regulations like SOX, Single Software does multitasking.
  • Value for money, Positive ROI.
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F5
  • Prior to F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, we were averaging 12k plus credential stuffing attempts weekly across client portals That number fell down to less than a thousand in just 4 weeks
  • Over 90 percent of scraping and unauthorized price harvesting blocked
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Application Access GovernanceScreenshot of Automating Risk AnalysisScreenshot of Centralize Identity and Access GovernanceScreenshot of Access Control