For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

Iselator_38937's avatar
Iselator_38937
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Feb 19, 2014

F5 ASM WAF vs. Akamai Kona WAF

Hi I would like to understand the pros/cons between F5 WAF (ASM) and the Akamai Kona Cloud based WAF solution. Is anybody aware of a battlesheet, feature comparison, technical document comparing thes...
ASM Advanced WAF
deployment
design
management
security
Mui_64918's avatar
Mui_64918
Icon for Cirrus rankCirrus
Feb 19, 2014

My 2 cents would be if you are good with giving keys to the kingdom to Akamai Cloud then that might be a better option from a DDOS and capacity perspective. If you are conservative in security and capacity/DDOS is not a major factor then ASM would be a better option. Giving away keys how ever secure is a challenge from my perspective thought it has advantages. We can increase capacity with Viprions at a fraction of cost to Akamai but not to the level that Cloud can provide.