We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb 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."What we like about Fortinet FortiWeb is it has all the features. We use all of them, so we have to turn on all the options."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"One main feature we are very happy about is file security and upload functionality."
"The most valuable features are support and security."
"It can scale well."
"The GUI is user-friendly."
"I like FortiWeb's usability and ease of configuration. It's simple to configure rules and exceptions inside the attack log. We block everything by default. If something isn't working, we ask the system admin to adjust the template and add exceptions."
"Banks have to be compliant with PCI and other things, and FortiWeb is absolutely amazing in terms of providing these reports. Otherwise, they will have to spend a lot of time on them."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the OWASP certification. Additionally, the tool's ability to enforce strong passwords and OTP within minutes is impressive. With its analytics and recommendations, it is a very good solution."
"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."
"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."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"It's very easy to deploy."
"It is a very good tool for load balancing."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is the reverse proxy."
"In my experience, Fortinet FortiWeb could improve the intelligent features to acknowledge whether any threat or incident that's running happened. Then give us the ability to escalate it to layer 2 or layer 3 in the network operations."
"It may be better if it were easier to create roles."
"Sometimes, even if you follow the documentation, it doesn't work as expected."
"We would like the interface to be easier to use and more user-friendly. The interface needs to be enhanced."
"The solution is rather complicated. If you know what to do, it's not bad, but it's complicated for a first time user to configure the solution. What I'd like to improve are the custom signatures."
"Most of the deployment is done by our development team because they have some parameters that match the configuration. However, when we initially did the deployment we used a consultant company."
"Their support needs improvement."
"If the price was lower, it would be a bit more attractive, as an option, to the customers."
"Its technical support could be better."
"They could provide a better user interface."
"The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
"NGINX App Protect could improve security."
"Right now, the tool doesn't provide an option revolving around update feeds, specifically the signature update option in the UI."
"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."
"The integration of NGINX App Protect could improve."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 20 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Noname Security. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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