We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."This is not a product that you need to install. You just use it."
"Rule groups are valuable."
"Its best feature is that it is on the cloud and does not require local hardware resources."
"The product's initial setup phase was very simple."
"The customized billing is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the security, making sure that files are protected, preventing unauthorized users from accessing the system."
"The ability to take multiple data sets and match those data sets together is the solution's most valuable feature. The data lake that comes with it is very useful because that allows us to match data sets with different configurations that we wouldn't normally be able to match."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"The solution's instant reports feature is the most effective for detecting threats."
"The most valuable features of Tenable.io Web Application Scanning are the integration into specific use cases and scanning. All of the features of the solution are useful."
"The most effective feature of the product is the ability to scan the entire environment."
"Our customers adopt this solution because of the replication testing and the vulnerability assessment it can do. It is a multi-faceted product."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is very easy to use."
"It is fully automated."
"We can get detailed information about vulnerabilities."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"I would like to see the addition of more advanced rate-limiting features in the next release. It would be beneficial to extend rate limiting beyond just web servers to the main node level."
"We haven't faced any problems with the solution."
"The price could be improved."
"It would be good if the solution provided managed WAF services."
"The solution could be more reliable."
"We should be able to do proper whitelisting."
"The product could be improved by expanding the weightage units of rules."
"We need more support as we go global."
"The dashboard could be more user-friendly."
"The technical support should be improved. Currently, some attacks are detected while others are not."
"The platform's technical support services could be better."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning could improve by offering faster fuzzing."
"The report customization needs to be better."
"I would like for them to add proxy filtering, where you can transfer and alter the package. It is fully automated. Other web application testers programs are actually proxy software, and the proxy software gives you the flexibility of modifying the outgoing package, which will actually help you in exploiting any vulnerability in detail."
"It would be great if there were a dashboard that is more user-friendly."
"Tenable.io Web Application Scanning conducts a general scan, which wastes time. The scan needs to be specific."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 51 reviews while Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is ranked 24th in Application Security Tools with 14 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.2, while Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of AWS WAF writes "A highly stable solution that helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tenable.io Web Application Scanning writes "Highly Recommended Solution with Latest Scanning Methods". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, whereas Tenable.io Web Application Scanning is most compared with Acunetix, SonarQube, Qualys Web Application Scanning, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and HCL AppScan.
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