F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Reviews & Insights

Score9 out of 10

136 Reviews and Ratings

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#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

60.0%

3 installations of 5

“Stronger and more responsive protection against evolving threats”

#2 most frequent

Information

40.0%

2 installations of 5

“Site security”

Overview

Synthesised from 28 reviews | Last Published April 23, 2026

This product overview assesses F5 Distributed Cloud WAF based on an analysis of 28 recent reviews spanning multiple dimensions, including areas for improvement, ROI, competitive alternatives, and complementary software. F5 Distributed Cloud WAF aims to provide robust web application firewall capabilities, protecting against evolving threats. Reviewers highlight its strengths in bolstering security posture, with 32% noting improved security as a key benefit. Some users also appreciate its ease of use and potential for WAF consolidation, with 7% citing these factors as positive impacts on total cost of ownership. However, the product faces challenges in usability, as 18% of reviewers found the dashboard complex and difficult to navigate, particularly for non-technical users. Furthermore, 14% of reviewers suggest enhancements to the AI and automation capabilities, specifically requesting more advanced AI detections and easier configuration. Alternatives considered by reviewers include other F5 products like F5 Distributed Cloud API Security and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) (11%), as well as competing WAF solutions like Imperva Application Firewall and Akamai App & API Protector (7%).

Pros

Strong protection against evolving threats
Improved security posture
Potential for WAF consolidation
Ease of setup

Cons

Complex dashboard and difficult navigation
Need for more advanced AI detections
Need for easier AI configuration
API protection and features require attention
Log access and reporting need improvement

What other products like F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) have you used or evaluated?

From 28 reviews | Last Published April 23, 2026

Summary

This analysis synthesizes 28 recent reviews that mention alternative products that reviewers have used or evaluated alongside F5 Distributed Cloud WAF. A small percentage of reviewers mentioned alternative or related products. Specifically, 11% (3 of 28) of reviewers mentioned other F5 products, including F5 Distributed Cloud API Security and F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM). Additionally, 7% (2 of 28) of reviewers cited other WAF products such as Imperva Application Firewall and Akamai App & API Protector.

Related topics

F5 Products Other WAF Products

Top Quotes

F5 Products

“F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)”

Other WAF Products

“Imperva Application Firewall”

What positive or negative impact (i.e. Return on Investment or ROI) has F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) had on your overall business objectives?

From 28 reviews | Last Published April 23, 2026

Summary

This report analyzes 28 recent reviews to assess the impact of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF on business objectives. A significant portion of reviewers, 32% (9 of 28), highlight improved security as a key benefit, citing stronger protection against evolving threats and an improved security posture. A smaller segment, 7% (2 of 28), specifically mentions improvements to security connections from remote locations. Further positive impacts include ease of use and total cost of ownership (TCO), each noted by 7% (2 of 28) of reviewers. These reviewers appreciate the ease of setup and the potential for WAF consolidation.

Top Quotes

Improved security

“Improved security”

Improved security connection

“It has major impact on the product and the customer stand point of view.”

TCO

“consolidation of WAF”

Besides F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall), what other software do you regularly use? How likely would you be to recommend it to a friend or colleague?

From 28 reviews | Last Published April 23, 2026

Summary

This analysis of 28 recent reviews examines what other software reviewers regularly use alongside F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall). Two tools emerged as related products: F5 BIG-IP and AWS WAF, each mentioned by 7% (2 of 28) of reviewers. These mentions indicate the potential for integration or comparison with F5 Distributed Cloud WAF within user environments.

Related topics

F5 BIG-IP AWS WAF

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F5 BIG-IP

“F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Linux Containers LXC, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine”

AWS WAF

“AWS Firewall Manager”

Please provide some detailed examples of areas where F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) has room for improvement.

From 28 reviews | Last Published April 23, 2026

Summary

This analysis of 28 recent reviews identifies areas where F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) could improve. A notable area for improvement, cited by 18% (5 of 28) of reviewers, is the usability and complexity of the dashboard, with reviewers finding it difficult to navigate and configure, especially for non-technical users. Another 14% (4 of 28) of reviewers suggest enhancements to the AI and automation capabilities, specifically requesting more advanced AI detections and easier configuration. API protection and features, along with log access and reporting, were each mentioned by 11% (3 of 28) of reviewers as areas needing attention. These reviews indicate a need for a more intuitive user interface, enhanced automation, and improved API security features.

Top Quotes

Dashboard usability/complexity

“The main challange is it's dashboard complexity as it becomes very difficult for non-technical person to understand and search for critical functionalities without tapping complex settings”

AI/Automation improvements

“I think mainly the latest feature with AI and other things, I think maybe they need to add more AI detections and other things into the product.”

API protection/features

“API detection”

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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Reviews

145 Reviews

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Review

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have our main web application where we offer our products and service offers.

Pros

Protect again cross site scripting
Brute force attacks
Code modification

Cons

Automation
Zero day attacks

Likelihood to Recommend

In front of critical business application

Verified User

Director in Product Management (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helped me protect information from my DBs and it helped me extract information about the use of my DBs.
An attack was stopped very well and they couldn't steal information.

Me ayudó a cuidar información de mis DB y me ayuda a sacar información del uso de mis DB un ataque lo detuvo muy bien y no pudieron robar información

Pros

Usage reports
Suspicious analysis
Bad configurations
Reportes de uso
Análisis sospechosos
Malas configuraciones

Cons

Risk analysis
Recommendations
Automatic reports
Análisis de riesgo
Recomendaciones
Reportes automáticos

Likelihood to Recommend

Because I can share experiences that helped me in an information theft attack, no matter what type of DB or site you have, you give it to protect your sites and it starts acting immediately, taking care of the availability of the sites and makes it so that clients see it all the time without the risk of it being taken down.

Porque puedo dar experiencias de que me ayudó en un ataque de robo de información sin importa que tipo de DB o site tienes le das que te proteja tus sitios y empieza a actuar inmediatamente cuídando la disponibilidad de los sitios y hace que los clientes la vean todo el tiempo sin riesgo a que la vayan a tumbar

This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

30 years of experience

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 16, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, our clients' requirements are focused on improving security and customer experience. To achieve this, it is necessary to have technologies like those of F5 Distributed Cloud, providing all the experience of its cutting-edge technologies that allow us to deliver quality and secure applications and services that the business requires.

Actualmente los requerimientos de nuestros clientes estan enfocados en mejorar la seguridad y la experiencing de sus clientes , para esto es necesario disponer de technologies como las de F5 distributed Cloud., aportando toda esa experiencia de sus technologies de vanguardia que permiten entregar aplicaciones y servicios de calidad y seguridad que require el negocio.

This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.

Pros

Deploying Fast and Secure Applications
Despliegue de Aplicaciones rapidas y seguras

Cons

More user-friendly control panel
El panel de control mas amigable

Likelihood to Recommend

Fernando Garcia

Dir.Comercial in Information Technology at Veriopoint HN (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Amazing

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use to protect my app against to cyberattackers to deny or stole my organization data.

Pros

Web application protection
L7 DDos
Owasp compliance
Granular policies
geographic protection

Cons

APi protection to applications environment
Protect injections codes
Make aplication ever available

Likelihood to Recommend

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF make us protection to on-line application multi-cloud and multi-data centers on premise.

Verified User

Administrator in Corporate (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

USO WAF (I use WAF)

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Uso WAF de F5 para proteccion de portales en AWS, con esto mitigamos ataques de del OWASP, El On-boarding es muy rapido e intuitivo.

I use F5 Distributed Cloud WAF to protect my AWS portals. This mitigates OWASP attacks. Onboarding is very fast and intuitive.

Pros

Proteccion de DDos
DDos Protecction
Balanceo
Balancing
Monitoreo
Monitoring

Cons

Un modo aprendizaje o auditoria de la pagina a proteger
A learning or audit mode of the page to be protected

Likelihood to Recommend

En cualquier escenario de portables Web

In any Web portable scenario

Verified User

Manager (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

thanks

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Estamos comenzando a pasar algunos servicios de nuestra organización por f5 XC, no tenemos mucha experiencia pero si es un producto al cual le queremos sacar el maximo provecho. De momento la funcionalidad que nos permite es utilizar El waf de f5 que es mas robusto que El de azure, y uno de los sitios que estamos pasando por xc esta hosteado en azure.

We're starting to migrate some of our organization's services to F5 XC. We don't have much experience, but it's a product we want to get the most out of. Currently, the functionality it allows us to use is the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, which is more robust than the Azure one. One of the sites we're migrating to XC is hosted on Azure.

Pros

facilidad de implementacion
ease of implementation
proteccion owasp top 10
Owasp Top 10 Protection
proteccion contra amenazas avanzadas
protection against advanced threats
proteccion contra bots maliciosos
protection against malicious bots

Cons

ofrecer mas facilidad para buscar los logs de waf con El support id
Provide easier access to WAF (Web Application Firewall) logs with the support ID

Likelihood to Recommend

por la facilidad de implementación y El integration con muticloud.

For the ease of implementation and integration with multi-cloud

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

F5 A Great Ally

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Distributed Cloud Services es un aliado estrategico para el posicionamiento de nuestros productos de manera global y agregando una capa de seguridad robusta que permite exponer servicios a la Internet y bloquear amenazas dentro de Las capas de Aplicacion y Delivery.

F% Distributed Cloud Services (WAF) is a strategic ally for positioning our products globally, adding a robust security layer that allows services to be exposed to the Internet and blocks threats within the Application and Delivery layers.

Pros

Redireccionamiento de puertos HTTP a HTTPS forzando connexion Segura de nuestros clientes.
Redirecting HTTP ports to HTTPS, forcing secure connections for our clients.
Manejo de mensajes de Aplicacion para correcto rastreo de las transactions.
Handling application messages for correct transaction tracking.
Gestion de firmas de amenazas de WAF de forma transparente
Managing WAF threat signatures transparently

Cons

Generar dashboards personalizados sobre amenazas
Generate custom threat dashboards
Adicionar Boton de export para El discovery de API Security
Add Export Button for API Security Discovery

Likelihood to Recommend

Es adecuado para proteger portales de amenazas en capa aplicativa y que carecen de seguridad en la capa de transporte, no es recomendable en servicios que tienen mechanismos internos de seguridad entre endpoint y server.

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is suitable for protecting portals from application-layer threats that lack transport-layer security. It is not recommended for services that have internal security mechanisms between the endpoint and the server.

Verified User

Administrator in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

12 years of experience

F5 WAF: A Robust and Efficient Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Es una excelente solución, protege de ataques malicioso y de más incidente cibernéticos de los principales portales web, estamos analizando la viabilidad de contratarla para aumentar la seguridad de sistemas de información académicos como la website, plataforma académica, aula virtual, entre otras. Próximamente, agendemos una prueba de concepto PoC.

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is an excellent solution; it protects major web portals from malicious attacks and further cyber incidents. We're analyzing the feasibility of using it to increase the security of academic information systems such as our website, academic platform, virtual classroom, and others. We'll schedule a proof-of-concept (PoC) soon.

Pros

Detección de DoS
Detection of DoS
Bloqueo de ataque de fuerza fruta
Blocking fruit force attack
Protección ante inyección de código
Code injection protection

Cons

Protección ante botnets
Protection against botnets
Anti DoS
Bloque de inyección de código a base de datos
Database code injection block

Likelihood to Recommend

Es una excelente solución muy robusta y eficiente, trabajo garantizado en su equipo de soporte y asesoria, es calidad a pesar de su precio un poco elevado.

It is an excellent, very robust and efficient solution, guaranteed work by its support and advisory team, it is quality despite its slightly high price.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

F5 WAF

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 14, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

En este momento estamos interesados en revisar la solución, tenemos bastante expectativas al respecto. Creemos que con la solución podemos resolver muchas de las necesidades de seguridad que tenemos a nivel de aplicaciones. Ahora con la Inteligencia Artificial lograste simplificar y aumentar el alcance de trabajo, para nosotros ya es un objetivo estratégico.

We're currently interested in reviewing the solution; we have high expectations for it. We believe the solution can address many of our application security needs. Now, with Artificial Intelligence, you've managed to simplify and expand the scope of work; for us, that's already a strategic objective.

Pros

ERP
Aplicaciones de negocio
Business Applications
Accesibilidad
Accessibility

Cons

Cloud
Balanceo
Balancing
Protección de dominios
Domain Protection

Likelihood to Recommend

Protección de dominios

Domain Protection

Farley Bonfante Diaz

Cloud Architecture and IT Services Coordinator in Engineering at Mutualser EPS (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 11, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

F5 Distributed Cloud WAF being the crucial component in application security, F5 offers a wide range of attack protection with it's distributed Cloud WAF with real-time protection updates and attack protection.