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Top 8 Web Application Firewall (WAF) Tools

Fortinet FortiWebMicrosoft Azure Application GatewayAWS WAFImperva DDoSF5 Advanced WAFImperva Web Application FirewallBarracuda Web Application FirewallAzure Front Door
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  1. Fortinet FortiWeb
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    8.2
    Rating
    24
    Reviews
    440
    Words/Review
    16,577
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    13,307
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    The most valuable features in Fortinet FortiWeb are sandboxing and threat prevention. 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.
  2. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway
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    7.0
    Rating
    12
    Reviews
    429
    Words/Review
    25,589
    Views
    22,955
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    It does an excellent job of load balancing. The health probe is pretty good for your backend health. It tells you whether it's communicating and talking to the endpoint correctly. It is quite useful.
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  3. AWS WAF
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    7.6
    Rating
    12
    Reviews
    551
    Words/Review
    16,315
    Views
    13,758
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    Stable and scalable web application firewall. Setting it up is straightforward.AWS WAF has a lot of integrated features and services. For example, there are security services that can be integrated very well for our customers.
  4. Imperva DDoS
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    8.6
    Rating
    13
    Reviews
    493
    Words/Review
    12,351
    Views
    8,548
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    Technical support was very helpful.Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay.
  5. F5 Advanced WAF
    8.1
    Rating
    16
    Reviews
    551
    Words/Review
    8,685
    Views
    6,776
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    I also like the ability to have immediate display of the support IDs when a real blockage occurs.F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb.
  6. Imperva Web Application Firewall
    8.8
    Rating
    11
    Reviews
    444
    Words/Review
    7,952
    Views
    6,600
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    The most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are DDoS, malware, and the other malicious threat prevention it provides. Additionally, third-party integration is available. You can forward the log for further analysis.
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  7. Barracuda Web Application Firewall
    7.8
    Rating
    13
    Reviews
    419
    Words/Review
    5,276
    Views
    4,092
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    Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support.Some of the most valuable features are the ease of deployment, the Barracuda support, the easy-to-use console, and the granularity of the reports.
  8. Azure Front Door
    9.0
    Rating
    2
    Reviews
    369
    Words/Review
    10,871
    Views
    9,345
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    You can assign as many web application firewall policies as you want to the same instance of Front Door.The price is one of the most important aspects of the product. It's quite affordable.
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  9. NGINX App Protect
    7.7
    Rating
    6
    Reviews
    437
    Words/Review
    4,420
    Views
    3,686
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  10. Akamai Kona Site Defender
    8.0
    Rating
    4
    Reviews
    390
    Words/Review
    8,599
    Views
    6,802
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  11. Fastly
    9.0
    Rating
    1
    Reviews
    759
    Words/Review
    2,781
    Views
    2,376
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  12. Comodo cWatch
    9.5
    Rating
    2
    Reviews
    709
    Words/Review
    775
    Views
    514
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  13. F5 Silverline Managed Services
    7.0
    Rating
    1
    Reviews
    2,152
    Words/Review
    4,376
    Views
    3,358
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  14. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall
    8.0
    Rating
    3
    Reviews
    566
    Words/Review
    2,558
    Views
    1,999
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  15. Symantec Web Application Firewall
    10.0
    Rating
    1
    Reviews
    299
    Words/Review
    439
    Views
    341
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  16. Radware AppWall
    7.0
    Rating
    3
    Reviews
    637
    Words/Review
    1,749
    Views
    1,352
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  17. Azure Web Application Firewall
    8.0
    Rating
    3
    Reviews
    299
    Words/Review
    1,612
    Views
    1,333
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  18. Oracle Dyn Web Application Security
    9.0
    Rating
    1
    Reviews
    451
    Words/Review
    240
    Views
    191
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  19. Reblaze
    8.0
    Rating
    1
    Reviews
    286
    Words/Review
    2,271
    Views
    1,172
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  20. Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service
    7.7
    Rating
    3
    Reviews
    419
    Words/Review
    312
    Views
    212
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  21. SonicWall Web Application Firewall
    9.0
    Rating
    1
    Reviews
    171
    Words/Review
    98
    Views
    70
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  22. Citrix Web App and API Protection
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    2,472
    Views
    1,985
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  23. Sucuri
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    2,115
    Views
    1,759
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  24. Signal Sciences
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    1,923
    Views
    1,365
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  25. SiteLock
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    1,183
    Views
    953
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  26. Akamai Web Application Protector
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    1,126
    Views
    1,003
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  27. Wallarm NG WAF
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    835
    Views
    583
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  28. Sqreen
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    677
    Views
    583
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  29. Virsec Security Platform
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    772
    Views
    398
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  30. StackPath WAF
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    481
    Views
    417
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  31. R&S Web Application Firewall (DenyAll)
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    537
    Views
    339
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  32. Avi Networks Intelligent Web Application Firewall
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    419
    Views
    376
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  33. Airlock
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    395
    Views
    320
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  34. Indusface AppTrana
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    270
    Views
    208
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  35. Trustwave Web Application Firewall
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    187
    Views
    154
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  36. NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    191
    Views
    147
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  37. Threatx
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    175
    Views
    140
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  38. Neustar Web Application Firewall
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    166
    Views
    142
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  39. PT Application Firewall
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    153
    Views
    117
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  40. WAPPLES
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    154
    Views
    109
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  41. NEVIS nevisProxy
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    146
    Views
    106
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  42. Limelight Cloud Security
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    106
    Views
    78
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  43. Venusense Web Application Firewall
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    75
    Views
    56
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  44. Pulse vWAF
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    49
    Views
    16
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  45. SES WAF
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    43
    Views
    21
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  46. Radware Cloud WAF Service
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    27
    Views
    24
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  47. Radware Kubernetes WAF
    N/A
    Rating
    0
    Reviews
    0
    Words/Review
    26
    Views
    21
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Advice From The Community

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Prasert Mahapol - PeerSpot reviewer
Prasert Mahapol
Sales Director with 51-200 employees
Which Web Application Firewall (WAF) would you recommend? R&S or Imperva?

I am a Sales Director at a company with less than 1,000 employees. 

I am researching Web Application Firewalls (WAF). I am considering R&S (DenyAll) and Imperva. Which would you recommend? 

Are there others I should consider?

JimDavis - PeerSpot reviewer
JimDavisImperva is a strong choice, given their security focus and ongoing R&D into the… more »
5 Answers
Menachem D Pritzker - PeerSpot reviewer
Menachem D Pritzker
Director of Growth
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
Which lesser known firewall product has the best chance at unseating the market leaders?

Hi community, 

There are so many firewall products in the market today. Who are we going to be talking about 3-5 years from now?

imadam - PeerSpot reviewer
imadamNetscope, Zscaler if they continue route they are on now. FIrewalls needs great… more »
25 Answers
VarunGoyal - PeerSpot reviewer
VarunGoyal
User
What are the limitations of AWS WAF vs alternative WAFs?

Hi community,

I'm trying to understand what limitations AWS WAF has vs other (alternative) Web Application Firewall (WAF) products.

John Rendy - PeerSpot reviewer
John RendyHi Varun, I have had experienced with several WAF deployments and deep… more »
2 Answers
Rony_Sklar - PeerSpot reviewer
Rony_Sklar
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
When should companies use SSL Inspection?

Hi professionals,

There seems to be some controversy around whether or not SSL Inspection should be used by businesses. 

What is your opinion - should they be used, and if so when? Conversely, what are the reasons for not using SSL inspection?

Bruce Bennett - PeerSpot reviewer
Bruce BennettI am a proponent of SSL inspection, as long as you have another function/service… more »
10 Answers
Rony_Sklar - PeerSpot reviewer
Rony_Sklar
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
What is a Bot Manager? How does it differ from WAF?

It seems that there is some overlap between these two types of solutions - how do Bot Managers and WAF differ? How can they work together to improve security?

Oluwatosin Omojola - PeerSpot reviewer
Oluwatosin OmojolaA Bot manager differs from a WAF in that it focuses on the management of Bots… more »
5 Answers
Evgeny Belenky - PeerSpot reviewer
Evgeny Belenky
PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
What are the OWASP Top 10 in 2021?

Hi peers,

What are the OWASP Top 10 this year? 

What single web app security tool (or a minimum set of tools) would you recommend for overall web app protection (from the most critical security risks covered by these Top 10)?

Andrew Van Der Stock - PeerSpot reviewer
Andrew Van Der StockWe are due to release the OWASP Top 10 2021 on September 24, 2021. We will be… more »
4 Answers
Unmesh Deshpande - PeerSpot reviewer
Unmesh Deshpande
CTO at Kingsway Hospitals
Which WAF solution would you recommend to cater to 100 to 125 concurrent sessions?
Hello community,  I am the CTO for a large multi-specialty private hospital. We are currently researching WAF solutions. Which WAF solution would you recommend with no heritage for subscription charges? We are a hospital with many web apps that need to be published soon and quickly. We have dec...
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Srdjan - PeerSpot reviewer
SrdjanI would always recommend F5 WAF, it is probably the best one on the market… more »
17 Answers

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