G2 Vendor Directory

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

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricPolicy Manager

by FireMon

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)

by F5

Overall rating4.43.9
Review count4115
Ease of use8.98.6
Ease of setup8.57.6
Quality of support8.88.7
Meets requirements9.29.0
NPS60.52631613.333333
Small Business34.1%13.3%
Mid-Market26.8%33.3%
Enterprise39.0%53.3%
Total page views728197
Total LLM citations1,416349

Policy Manager

FireMon Policy Manager is a comprehensive firewall policy management platform that helps organizations quickly adapt to change, manage risk, and achieve continuous compliance. By standardizing and consolidating firewall, cloud security group, and other network policy device rulesets into a single management console, Policy Manager gives network teams visibility and management over even the most complex hybrid networks with ease.

Pros

  • Solutions
  • Integrations
  • Easy Access
  • Ease of Use
  • Notifications
  • Features

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)

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.

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