F5 Silverline Managed Services vs NGINX App Protect comparison

F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. NGINX App Protect

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Categories and Ranking

F5 Silverline Managed Services

Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)

20th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (11th)

NGINX App Protect

Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)

13th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Security (16th), API Security (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of F5 Silverline Managed Services is 1.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NGINX App Protect is 2.1%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Unique Categories:

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection

1.9%

Container Security

0.2%

API Security

2.3%

Featured Reviews

Balagopal Kaimal

Co-Founder and CTO at Cyber-CP Ltd

Sep 17, 2020

It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs

F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, being a new product in the market or comparatively related to a new product, currently supports less number of PoPs. They should introduce more PoPs. The current number of PoPs that they have is around 10 or 12, which is still relatively less as compared to 2,400 plus PoPs that Akamai offers. The user latency or the number of hops a user needs before reaching the actual web application is less in Akamai because it has its internal fabric to route the traffic. They need to spin up more data to increase its traffic handling capability. They can also include the bot detection capability, though it is a pretty advanced functionality. If they could include DataDome like functionality, that is, bot prediction, then F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall will be top-notch in the market.

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Ntwrkengine0887

Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jul 6, 2022

Flexible and high availability

NGINX App Protect has improved the flexibility of services in our company and distributed new escalation applications. The downtime in our network has decreased substantially. In a short time, we can republish and resolve issues in our network The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"F5 technical support is really good."

"It's a good front end for public infrastructure"

"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture."

"Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do."

"The product’s UI is easy to understand."

"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance."

"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides."

"The most valuable feature is flexibility."

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"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."

"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is the reverse proxy."

"The initial setup was simple and took three to four days."

"We were looking for a product that is capable of complete automation and a container based solution. It's working."

"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."

"The most valuable feature is that I can establish different services from the firewall."

"It's very easy to deploy."

"WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall."

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Cons

"The product could be improved on the global load and the integration with the other solution like Cisco and Dell. As a representor of the operation, we prefer to have one platform which can accommodate all type of integration. We are also looking for more improvements in the security policy configuration."

"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."

"In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing."

"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."

"We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough."

"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."

"You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell."

"I just hope the price can be cheaper."

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"The integration of NGINX App Protect could improve."

"The solution needs to be improved in the e-commerce portal."

"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."

"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."

"The price of NGINX App Protect could improve."

"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."

"Its technical support could be better."

"I encountered issues with NGINX App Protect while trying to upgrade custom rules."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be reduced."

"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better, they are not very flexible. The price of the solution is based on the requirements of the enterprise."

"F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works based on your bandwidth. They look at the clean bandwidth and do the pricing. 20% of a total pipe would be a clean bandwidth. The list price or a non-negotiated price for F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall would be around $2,200 per application per year for everything that you need. When you get into an enterprise kind of a setup, they negotiate this to the last bit. I would easily take 20% on that, which would be the cost, but it should cover all your Advance WAF features, bot protection, tech campaign, etc. It is built as a package and gives you most of the capability. You don't get the mobile SDK, which is an additional license. Mobile SDK is required only if you're buying or if you have a mobile application, and you are going to instrument F5 or Imperva into your mobile appliance. This anyways would be an additional module. It doesn't come within the WAF, but it is a WAF feature."

"The product’s pricing is reasonable."

"The solution's price is reasonable."

"There is a license needed to use NGINX App Protect."

"NGINX App Protect is expensive."

"The licensing fees for this solution are pretty expensive for what it does, but there is no alternative."

"There are no additional fees."

"Really understand the licensing model, because we underestimated that."

"NGINX is not expensive."

"The price of NGINX App Protect is not much different from the products that fall under the leader category of Gartner Magic Quadrant."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

12%

Insurance Company

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Is Citrix ADC (formerly Netscaler) the best ADC to use and if not why?

For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you have to look for other ADC's like F5, Imperva, Radware, Fortinet, etc.

What do you like most about F5 Silverline Managed Services?

The initial setup is straightforward.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Silverline Managed Services?

The product’s pricing is reasonable.

What do you like most about NGINX App Protect?

It's very easy to deploy.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NGINX App Protect?

NGINX App Protect is expensive.

What needs improvement with NGINX App Protect?

The solution needs to be improved in the e-commerce portal.

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Also Known As

F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, F5 Silverline DDoS Protection

NGINX WAF, NGINX Web Application Firewall

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Overview

F5's Silverline Managed Services is a SaaS solution delivering DDoS protection, managed Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, and managed Shape Security Fraud and Anti-bot solutions.

Silverline services include 24x7 access to F5's Security Operations Center (SOC). F5's expert security professionals use F5 products with state-of-the-art security tools to ensure the best protection possible. As an add-on to Silverline DDoS or WAF services, Silverline Threat Intelligence integrates dynamic lists of threatening IP addresses to give context for policy decisions.

NGINX App Protect application security solution combines the efficacy of advanced F5 web application firewall (WAF) technology with the agility and performance of NGINX Plus. The solution runs natively on NGINX Plus and addresses some of the most difficult challenges facing modern DevOps environments:

Integrating security controls directly into the development automation pipeline
Applying and managing security for modern and distributed application environments such as containers and microservices
Providing the right level of security controls without impacting release and go-to-market velocity
Complying with security and regulatory requirements

NGINX App Protect offers:

Expanded security beyond basic signatures to ensure adequate controls
F5 app‑security technology for efficacy superior to ModSecurity and other WAFs
Confidently run in “blocking” mode in production with proven F5 expertise
High‑confidence signatures for extremely low false positives
Increases visibility, integrating with third‑party analytics solutions
Integrates security and WAF natively into the CI/CD pipeline
Deploys as a lightweight software package that is agnostic of underlying infrastructure
Facilitates declarative policies for “security as code” and integration with DevOps tools
Decreases developer burden and provides feedback loop for quick security remediation
Accelerates time to market and reduces costs with DevSecOps‑automated security

Sample Customers

City Bank, Ricacorp Properties, Miele, American Systems, Bangladesh Post Office

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F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. NGINX App Protect