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Joe_Brandon
Altostratus
AltostratusF5 AFM as Main Network Firewall
Hi Everyone, I am asking this question because i want to migrate lots of firewalls and have very nice experience with BIG-IQ management center. I have an odd question about AFM. is there any chance...
Hi Joe,
AFM is a data center firewall, not a perimetral firewall, and in other architectures, it can be used as a DDOS for L3 and L4 protection, Thinking in AFM as a perimetral or UTM is probably a wrong approach.
The current Advanced Firewalls has a lot of features that AFM does not as:
Visibility into the application activity at a user level.
User-based Analysis, Reporting, and Forensics.
Malware and Virus Protection.
Cloud packet analysis.
Visibility into your applications, web traffic, threats, and data patterns.And many more that AFM as a perimetral firewall doesn´t have, in my point of view is not the most sophisticated and secure.
Regards.
Sebastián.
Hi Joe,
AFM is a data center firewall, not a perimetral firewall, and in other architectures, it can be used as a DDOS for L3 and L4 protection, Thinking in AFM as a perimetral or UTM is probably a wrong approach.
The current Advanced Firewalls has a lot of features that AFM does not as:
Visibility into the application activity at a user level.
User-based Analysis, Reporting, and Forensics.
Malware and Virus Protection.
Cloud packet analysis.
Visibility into your applications, web traffic, threats, and data patterns.
And many more that AFM as a perimetral firewall doesn´t have, in my point of view is not the most sophisticated and secure.
Regards.
Sebastián.