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."The solution easily identifies, delays, or allows business traffic."
"We are getting security for each and every API."
"I like that the charges are all based on usage and labor costs. For the time that we spend onboarding almost 252020 FQDN, Akamai charges us only for the traffic usage, but it's only charging us for the labor costs for onboarding."
"All the solution's features are very good."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable."
"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."
"I can attest to its benefits in terms of understanding and mitigating threats...The solution's technical support team seems to be pretty responsive."
"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 initial setup was simple and took three to four days."
"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."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"It's very easy to deploy."
"We were looking for a product that is capable of complete automation and a container based solution. It's working."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"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."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"Akamai needs to focus on quickly responding to risks, even those that may potentially be of zero threat..Maybe some of the documentation is a little confusing. They have a lot of different places where you can go to get information, and some of the information is quite out of date."
"One thing I asked them is to integrate the API discovery product that they have and push that data into Akamai App and API Protector so that we do not have two types of reviews to identify the type of traffic. We already know the APIs that are frequently getting used, so analysis becomes easier. We can integrate both products and use them."
"It's challenging if you need to go for a high throughput."
"Right now, the tool doesn't provide an option revolving around update feeds, specifically the signature update option in the UI."
"The price of NGINX App Protect could improve."
"They could provide a better user interface."
"Its technical support could be better."
"Areas for improvement would be if NGINX could scan for vulnerabilities and learn and update the signatures of DoS attacks."
"The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
"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."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 19 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 AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Noname Security. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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