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Porter-Ed_33126
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Aug 22, 2017

Security Features Comparison of F5 vs AWS and Azure Load Balancers + WAF

Hi Experts   I want to compile a list of security features of F5 and how these compete against AWS "ALB/ELB + WAF" and Azure "Load Balancer + WAF" capabilities ? Every solution have its own pros a...
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Pedro_Haoa
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Aug 22, 2017

Hi,

 

AWS/Azure offers good integration with other AWS/Azure services but the major benefits are limited to AWS/Azure clients.

 

BIG-IP ASM offers some of the following advantages (from the security perspective):

 

  1. PCI Compliance
  2. Carrier-Grade Hardware Platform (On-Premise Option)
  3. Advanced L7 DoS and DDoS detection including: HASH DoS, Slowloris, floods, Keep dead, XML bomb
  4. Web scraping prevention
  5. Advanced automated attack defense and bot detection
  6. Advanced protections against threats including: Web injections, data leakage, session hijacking, HPP attacks, buffer overflows, shellshock
  7. Geolocation blocking
  8. IP Intelligence (IP reputation) services
  9. SSL termination with re-encryption
  10. Security incident and violation correlation
  11. Client-side certification support
  12. Client authentication LDAP, RADIUS
  13. Database security integration (Oracle)
  14. Response checking
  15. Violation risk scoring
  16. Web service encryption and decryption
  17. Device-ID detection and finger printing
  18. Live signature updates
  19. WebSocket traffic filtering
  20. IP shunning (layer 3 blacklisting in HW) with BIG-IP AFM