We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS 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."This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"Provides Anti-DDoS protection, as well as other protections like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and antiscanner. These types of protection are valuable to the business due to the daily attacks on our portals, and that often cannot be seen without a tool like this."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"I like the user-friendly interface."
"Gives us the ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action."
"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."
"WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall."
"NGINX App Protect is stable."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its open source."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the OWASP certification. Additionally, the tool's ability to enforce strong passwords and OTP within minutes is impressive. With its analytics and recommendations, it is a very good solution."
"The initial setup was simple and took three to four days."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"The most valuable feature is that there is a link in the system that will help to analyze the security of an application when something abnormal is found."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"Imperva always needs to adjust to new versions of cyber attacks, it needs to be faster, improve the resiliency of the software of the solution."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
"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."
"Its technical support could be better."
"The solution needs to be improved in the e-commerce portal."
"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."
"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."
"NGINX App Protect could improve security."
"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."
Imperva DDoS is ranked 19th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 20 reviews. Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our Imperva DDoS vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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