We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF 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 solution is an enterprise-class firewall that provides both load-balancing and security."
"It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are SSL uploading, signature, and anomaly detection. It is overall a high-quality solution."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the balancer and you can change policies very easily."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"It's a fairly easy-to-use and user-friendly tool. My administrators and team also like its ability to customize the rules per the requirements."
"The web application firewall itself is most valuable. It provides positive security and negative security. In negative security, it blocks a task such as cross-site scripting, code injection, etc. In positive security, it lets you specify and enforce things, such as the parameters allowed in username and password fields and the number of characters allowed in a field."
"I definitely recommend this solution because of the time you save on analysis."
"It's very easy to deploy."
"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 policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"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."
"We were looking for a product that is capable of complete automation and a container based solution. It's working."
"The initial setup was simple and took three to four days."
"The most valuable feature is that I can establish different services from the firewall."
"It is a stable solution."
"Its price should be better. It is expensive."
"The deployment side is quite complex."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
"The reporting could be clearer and embedded to include our movement data."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the precision of the scanning. There are many false positives. They should improve their threat database."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"The BIG-IQ is supposed to centralize the management for all of the boxes but it's not very effective."
"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."
"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 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."
"Right now, the tool doesn't provide an option revolving around update feeds, specifically the signature update option in the UI."
"The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
"The solution needs to be improved in the e-commerce portal."
"Its technical support could be better."
"The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 20 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Azure Web Application Firewall, whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Noname Security. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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