F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Opinnate

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is a high-performance, full-proxy network security solution designed to protect networks and data centers against incoming threats that enter the network. Built on F5’s industry-leading BIG-IP hardware and software platforms, BIG-IP AFM provides a scalable platform that delivers the flexible performance and control needed to mitigate aggressive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and protocol attacks before they overwhelm and degrade applications and infrastructure availability.

Opinnate is an NSPM platform for firewall policy governance - analyzing real usage, optimizing policies, and automating changes. It enables least-privilege and segmentation readiness by continuously removing unused access and policy risk. Opinnate reduces policy sprawl by combining deep rule/object usage analytics, policy hygiene and optimization actions, and workflow-driven automation - so teams continuously improve security posture while cutting manual effort.