We performed a comparison between NGINX App Protect and StackPath WAF 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)."NGINX App Protect's best features are auto-learning, which creates a profile of applications that are deployed, bot protection, and force protection, which lets you configure your brute force policy and alert for and prevent brute force attacks."
"It has the best documentation features."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall."
"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."
"We were looking for a product that is capable of complete automation and a container based solution. It's working."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that I can establish different services from the firewall."
"The product’s most valuable is WAF. The authentication feature helps us protect WordPress sites."
"The setup of NGINX App Protect is complex. The full process took one week to complete. Additionally, we had to change the network infrastructure platform which took one month."
"NGINX App Protect could improve security."
"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."
"Its technical support could be better."
"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."
"The integration of NGINX App Protect could improve."
"Right now, the tool doesn't provide an option revolving around update feeds, specifically the signature update option in the UI."
"I encountered issues with NGINX App Protect while trying to upgrade custom rules."
"The product’s performance for caching feature needs improvement."
NGINX App Protect is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 19 reviews while StackPath WAF is ranked 27th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 1 review. NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2, while StackPath WAF is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StackPath WAF writes "Stable product with an easy setup process ". NGINX App Protect is most compared with AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, whereas StackPath WAF is most compared with AWS WAF and Sucuri.
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