We performed a comparison between Cloudflare Web Application Firewall 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 solution protects our application, which runs on the HTTP protocol, from DDoS attacks."
"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."
"It is a SaaS solution unlike much of the competition."
"It protects web applications efficiently."
"Someone with a basic understanding of networking and security will be able to implement the firewall's basic features within 15 minutes."
"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."
"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 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 I can establish different services from the firewall."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is the reverse proxy."
"It's very easy to deploy."
"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."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The reporting could be more granular."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should include port forwarding features."
"If they add logs history within the Cloudflare offering, that would be a great benefit."
"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."
"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."
"A key challenge arises when dealing with numerous integrations with HVAC systems. Depending on the specifics, there might be some configuration mismatches, which necessitate specific support."
"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should improve visibility for a customer."
"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
"NGINX App Protect could improve security."
"The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."
"It's challenging if you need to go for a high throughput."
"They could provide a better user interface."
"Areas for improvement would be if NGINX could scan for vulnerabilities and learn and update the signatures of DoS attacks."
"The price of NGINX App Protect could improve."
"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."
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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 20 reviews. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Radware Cloud WAF Service, whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, F5 Advanced WAF and Noname Security. See our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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