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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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hoolio
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Nov 21, 2012
Hi André,

 

 

I'd talk with your F5 or partner SE to get a comparative list of features.

 

 

One major issue I see customers balk at with outsourcing app security is that they generally need to provide their SSL keys to a third party. Most security focused companies aren't willing to risk having their keys in an unknown environment.

 

 

Aaron