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 open source."
"The initial setup was simple and took three to four days."
"The stability of the product is very impressive since it handles 60,000 to 70,000 requests or transactions per second."
"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."
"We were looking for a product that is capable of complete automation and a container based solution. It's working."
"It is a very good tool for load balancing."
"It has the best documentation features."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"The product’s most valuable is WAF. The authentication feature helps us protect WordPress sites."
"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 would be improved with integration with Shape and F5 WAF, which would make it easy for users to manage all their web application security with a single solution."
"It's challenging if you need to go for a high throughput."
"Its technical support could be better."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
"Areas for improvement would be if NGINX could scan for vulnerabilities and learn and update the signatures of DoS attacks."
"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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