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."It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"The solution uses AI to protect against botnet attacks."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its grand unity of the implementation, where you have the freedom to configure based on how it affects your use case or your organization. With the default setting of implicit deny, you can gradually start defining and deploying the tool to align with your environment, whether it is outdated, recent, or futuristic. This allows you to customize the solution to protect you from threat actors. You have the ability to define what the advanced threat act should do - whether it should alert, deny, or both - and it will deliver based on your configuration. Unlike other online solutions, F5 Advanced WAF provides flexibility to deliver to your unique environment the way you want."
"It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the security features and the protection."
"One of the most valuable features is the Local Traffic Manager."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"In terms of F5 Advanced WAF's most valuable features, I would definitely say its stability. F5 is one the most stable products. Either as the load balancer or the web application firewall, it is very stable."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its open source."
"NGINX App Protect is stable."
"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."
"NGINX App Protect has complete control over the HTTP session."
"The stability of the product is very impressive since it handles 60,000 to 70,000 requests or transactions per second."
"It's very easy to deploy."
"It has the best documentation features."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is the reverse proxy."
"One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy."
"The overall price of F5 Advanced WAF could improve."
"We get false positives sometimes."
"I would like for there to be a cloud-based solution, this would also help to improve scalability."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"Compatibility with multiple cloud environments needs improvement. Both stability and scalability need to be improved."
"The reporting could be clearer and embedded to include our movement data."
"I would not expect traffic details to pass through the web application firewall across the length of the whole application. I think that there is a web application where it can let the application function without traffic going in into the WAF."
"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."
"NGINX App Protect would be improved with integration with Shape and F5 WAF, which would make it easy for users to manage all their web application security with a single solution."
"The integration of NGINX App Protect could improve."
"The price of NGINX App Protect could improve."
"I encountered issues with NGINX App Protect while trying to upgrade custom rules."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
"The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
"They could provide a better user interface."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 19 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 AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb, Noname Security and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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