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)."The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its open source."
"NGINX App Protect is stable."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"It's very easy to deploy."
"The stability of the product is very impressive since it handles 60,000 to 70,000 requests or transactions per second."
"It is a very good tool for load balancing."
"NGINX App Protect has complete control over the HTTP session."
"The product’s most valuable is WAF. The authentication feature helps us protect WordPress sites."
"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."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
"The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."
"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."
"It's challenging if you need to go for a high throughput."
"I encountered issues with NGINX App Protect while trying to upgrade custom rules."
"Areas for improvement would be if NGINX could scan for vulnerabilities and learn and update the signatures of DoS attacks."
"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."
"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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