We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and NGINX App Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its user interface is very easy to use on a day-to-day basis. It is very user-friendly."
"We are using Application Security Manager (ASM) as a web application firewall, where there is a security signature to avoid a web level breach."
"iRules are very valuable. In addition to that, the way profiles are depicted by the LTM is also very good."
"Our experience has been very good, in terms of performance, and securing our application infrastructure."
"It has made it a single entry point for all users, verging across all the VPCs. It is more of an SSO solution versus multitier user loggin."
"Load balancing generally brings high availability and a bigger ability to scale out. In some cases, it brings security, depending on how it is configured."
"Initial setup is easy and pretty standard."
"You can create multiple virtual servers on F5 BIG-IP technology, and within multiple virtual servers you can have multiple nodes, where a node equals two application servers."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is the reverse proxy."
"It has the best documentation features."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is a very good tool for load balancing."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"Technical support could be faster. It's something I'd like to see them work on in the future."
"Internet and cloud support could be improved."
"Security enhancement should be more user friendly."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"The user interface of F5 BIG-IP LTM is old and could improve."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
"We would like to have integration into encryption and PKI integration with SafeNet. That is probably the key component in using External PKIs, letting people bring their PKIs with them."
"The ASM administration is quite complex. The topic itself is pretty complex, so it is not easy to provide a nice, clean interface. There are a lot of references and dependencies in-between the different subareas."
"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 configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
"Currently, the policies have to be handled manually, and you have to create from scratch, which can be a bit time-consuming, in a large environment."
"It's challenging if you need to go for a high throughput."
"Areas for improvement would be if NGINX could scan for vulnerabilities and learn and update the signatures of DoS attacks."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
"They could provide a better user interface."
"The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 19 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Noname Security. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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