F5 Named a Strong Performer in the Forrester Wave™: Bot Management Software, Q3 2024 Report

Forrester calls out F5 for its "standout mobile app protection; it is the only vendor whose mobile SDK can extend into a mobile application shielding tool." F5 believes this is important for organizations because mobile security and bot mitigation need to go hand in hand; both require the integration of a mobile SDK and both depend heavily on sophisticated code obfuscation to prevent reverse engineering and signal collection tampering, either of which would dramatically compromise effectiveness. In combining these capabilities, F5 defends mobile applications against two distinct attack vectors: bot attacks against the application's API endpoints and malware attacks against the app as it runs on mobile devices.

Forrester remarks further that F5 "stands out for privacy, allowing customers to specify the region to help drive data retention policies." F5 believes that its privacy capabilities are critical to enterprises because of compliance requirements and their respect for customer privacy concerns, and so F5 will continue to make privacy a priority.