We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and NGINX App Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most important feature of this solution is protection from attack."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"All the features that FortiGate contains are very suitable for our business. We work with other products in Fortinet, FortiWeb, FortiSandbox, FortiMail, and FortiCache. We use all UTM features like self-encryption, encryption, all UTM features."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"Other than the additional security with exploit protection, we have simpler certificate handling, as we can keep internal servers using internal certificates continuously distributed and updated by Active Directory Group Policy, while the public certificates become updated only in a single place, FortiWeb itself."
"The solution is stable."
"Also, if you serve files or you accept files with your server, Fortiweb has built-in antivirus. The Fortinet product family also provides good IP intelligence (botnet C&C, etc.)."
"Both the internal firewall management and the cloud can be managed by a single console."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is the reverse proxy."
"I tested specific features and evaluated the solution against the Web Application Firewall. I conducted research to test different detection percentages. I did not use it directly for protection but for evaluation purposes."
"It is a very good tool for load balancing."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup was simple and took three to four days."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"NGINX App Protect's best features are auto-learning, which creates a profile of applications that are deployed, bot protection, and force protection, which lets you configure your brute force policy and alert for and prevent brute force attacks."
"Another area for improvement is logging. When troubleshooting, the logs sometimes take a while to update. We've had people report that some things aren't logged if they're successful. It's a bit hit-and-miss. For example, sometimes people access one of our services, and it's successful, but we don't see that in the logs."
"The solution could improve by being able to handle different use cases."
"Their support needs improvement."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"I would like to see the Application Delivery Control (ADC) and Web Application Firewall (WAF) combined in one device."
"The integration with other products should be improved."
"The product's scalability could be better."
"The dashboards are not that configurable. Application-specific dashboards can be improved. If we have 50 applications, there should be something to see what's happening with these 50 applications. There could be a graph or a consolidated alert page where all alerts are inbuilt. They have other products that I can use, but this feature should be built into FortiWeb."
"Its technical support could be better."
"NGINX App Protect would be improved with integration with Shape and F5 WAF, which would make it easy for users to manage all their web application security with a single solution."
"Setting policies and parameters through the UI should be more automated because the process is manual, where we can only edit one rule at a time."
"Currently, the policies have to be handled manually, and you have to create from scratch, which can be a bit time-consuming, in a large environment."
"The setup of NGINX App Protect is complex. The full process took one week to complete. Additionally, we had to change the network infrastructure platform which took one month."
"The product's user interface is an area with shortcomings as it can be quite confusing for users, making it an area where improvements are required."
"The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."
"Right now, the tool doesn't provide an option revolving around update feeds, specifically the signature update option in the UI."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 20 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Noname Security. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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