We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and Virsec Security Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to integrate central sets. It protects from intrusion attacks such as scripting and SQL injections."
"The agility is great for us in terms of cloud services in general."
"The most valuable aspect is that it protects our code. It's a bit difficult to overwrite code in our application. It also protects against threats."
"The most valuable feature of AWS WAF is its highly configurable rules system."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to limit access based on geographical location by restricting specific IP addresses."
"As a basic WAF, it's better than nothing. So if you need something simple out of the box with default features, AWS WAF is good."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"Rule groups are valuable."
"We use the solution for Zero-day protection."
"We need more support as we go global."
"One area for improvement in AWS WAF could be the limitation on the number of rules, particularly those from third-party sources, within the free tier."
"They should work to define more threats, add more security, and make it more compliant with more security companies."
"While the complexity of the installation can vary from one service to another, overall, I would say that it and the configuration and navigation are somewhat complex."
"It would be better if AWS WAF were more flexible. For example, if you take a third-party WAF like Imperva, they maintain the rule set, and these rule sets are constantly updated. They push security insights or new rules into the firewall. However, when it comes to AWS, it has a standard set of rules, and only those sets of rules in the application firewalls trigger alerts, block, and manage traffic. Alternative WAFs have something like bot mitigation or bot control within the WAF, but you don't have such things in AWS WAF. I will say there could have been better bot mitigation plans, there could have been better dealer mitigation plans, and there could be better-updated rule sets for every security issue which arises in web applications. In the next release, I would like to see if AWS WAF could take on DDoS protection within itself rather than being in a stand-alone solution like AWS Shield. I would also like a solution like a bot mitigation."
"We don't have much control over blocking, because the WAF is managed by AWS."
"The solution's pricing could be improved."
"The cost management has room for improvement."
"The tool's dashboard needs to load since it is not responsive and takes time to load."
AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while Virsec Security Platform is ranked 26th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 1 review. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while Virsec Security Platform is rated 7.0. 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 Virsec Security Platform writes "Helps with Zero-day protection ". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Virsec Security Platform is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and CrowdStrike Falcon.
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