Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

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Iselator_38937
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Nov 21, 2012

F5 ASM WAF vs. Akamai Kona Cloud based WAF

We plan to sell our customer an F5 ASM WAF solution (added to the traffic manager). The customer asked us why they should invest into an inhouse deployment when they could get WAF from Akamais cloud ...
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Nov 21, 2012

Hi Steve

 

Akamai says they have a solution to protect the origin IP and configure some rules on your firewalls/routers to route back/deny direct access from the internet to the origin IPs

 

Costs could be also fix as they have a model where they just charge for one DDoS apparently on a monthly basis and everything in addition is covered in the monthly fee

 

Akamai promises a 100 % availability of their environment with 130000 servers around the globe.

 

But all those things rather relate to the DDoS feature than to the WAF features I'm looking for. I would seek some good comparison of technical features between Akamai and F5 WAF. There is a comparison model WAFEC that could provide a basis for comparion but the latest version is from 2006 and there is no actual information in the model, just the framework.

 

Regards

 

André