We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector 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."Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"The dashboard is the most interesting feature of the Akamai portal where you can have a detailed analysis of all the attacks that are happening. You can drill down an issue and see exactly what is happening, who are the bad guys attacking your website, and how Akamai is protecting the website. That is the most valuable feature."
"The product has a good UI."
"The solution can scale extremely well."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"The stability of the product is very impressive since it handles 60,000 to 70,000 requests or transactions per second."
"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."
"WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall."
"It is a very good tool for load balancing."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"NGINX App Protect is stable."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"It has the best documentation features."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"It's fine for a simple tool, but as I recall, if you encounter a lot of bots, scrapers, and other things, you'll need this tool bot and this other thing they offer called Bot Manager."
"The product should provide a secure NTP."
"A lot of piracy happens in India and other countries. If there is a product for protection from piracy, it would be great. For example, there are multiple hackers that hack your event, and there are some channels that pirate and publish the event on some other website. We protect our streaming through DRM and different technologies. We are also protecting the website, but hacking is still happening. If they can work on protecting from piracy, it would be great."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"Akamai App and API Protector is very new to me, so I do not have any insights on improvement areas for the product. However, when we ask for some help, it can take some time. We understand that the job is done by professionals, but if that time can be reduced, it would be great."
"The custom rules must be improved."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
"The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."
"I encountered issues with NGINX App Protect while trying to upgrade custom rules."
"The integration of NGINX App Protect could improve."
"It's challenging if you need to go for a high throughput."
"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."
"Its technical support could be better."
"They could provide a better user interface."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 20 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, 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 Akamai App and API Protector vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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