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We performed a comparison between Apiiro and NGINX App Protect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two API Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Apiiro vs. NGINX App Protect Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Apiiro's secrets detection feature has saved us several times, which we appreciate greatly.""The workflow automation is likely the best aspect of the solution."

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"It is a stable solution.""WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall.""The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use.""It's very easy to deploy.""The most valuable feature is that I can establish different services from the firewall.""It has the best documentation features.""The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility.""The stability of the product is very impressive since it handles 60,000 to 70,000 requests or transactions per second."

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Cons
"User management is a little bit clunky.""I would like support for our self-hosted Git server, other than GitHub, just regular Git."

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"The price of NGINX App Protect could improve.""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.""Its technical support could be better.""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.""The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections.""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.""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."

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  • "The licensing fees for this solution are pretty expensive for what it does, but there is no alternative."
  • "Our licensing costs are about $40,000 a year."
  • "Really understand the licensing model, because we underestimated that."
  • "There are no additional fees."
  • "NGINX is not expensive."
  • "The pricing is reasonable because NGINX operates on an instance basis."
  • "There is a license needed to use NGINX App Protect."
  • "There are not any additional costs we had to pay to use NGINX App Protect."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Apiiro's secrets detection feature has saved us several times, which we appreciate greatly.
    Top Answer:My understanding is the pricing is pretty competitive.
    Top Answer:Apiiro recently integrated SaaS, and we would love to see them expand on that. They provide many integrations to different products, including SaaS products such as Snyk. Ideally, Apiiro would include… more »
    Top Answer:The solution has yearly, three-year, and five-year subscriptions.
    Top Answer:NGINX App Protect could provide a better user interface.
    Ranking
    5th
    out of 21 in API Security
    Views
    24
    Comparisons
    15
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    1,148
    Rating
    8.5
    3rd
    out of 21 in API Security
    Views
    442
    Comparisons
    319
    Reviews
    9
    Average Words per Review
    334
    Rating
    8.7
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    Also Known As
    Apiiro Control Plane (ASOC), Apiiro API Security (SAST), Apiiro Open Source (SCA)
    NGINX WAF, NGINX Web Application Firewall
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    Overview

    Apiiro is the leader in application security posture management (ASPM), unifying risk visibility, prioritization, and remediation with deep code analysis and runtime context.

    Companies like Morgan Stanley, SoFi, Rakuten, and Navan leverage Apiiro's ASPM to...

    Get complete application and risk visibility: Apiiro takes a deep, code-based approach to ASPM. Its Cloud Application Security Platform analyzes source code and pulls in runtime context to build a continuous, graph-based inventory of application and software supply chain components.

    Prioritize risks with code-to-runtime context: With its proprietary Risk Graph™️, Apiiro contextualizes security alerts from third-party tools and native security solutions based on the likelihood and impact of risk to uniquely minimize alert backlogs and triage time by 95%.

    Fix and prevent risks that matter—faster: By tying risks to code owners, providing LLM-enriched remediation guidance, and embedding risk-based guardrails directly into developer tools and workflows, Apiiro improves remediation times (MTTR) by up to 85%.

    Apiiro's native security solutions include API security testing in code, secrets detection and validation, software bill of materials (SBOM) generation, sensitive data exposure prevention, software composition analysis (SCA), and CI/CD and SCM security.



    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
    Morgan Stanley, Rakuten, Jack Henry, SoFi, Colgate, Navan
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Outsourcing Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Comms Service Provider33%
    Insurance Company17%
    Computer Software Company17%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Healthcare Company7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise40%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise60%
    Buyer's Guide
    Apiiro vs. NGINX App Protect
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Apiiro vs. NGINX App Protect and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Apiiro is ranked 5th in API Security with 2 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 3rd in API Security with 19 reviews. Apiiro is rated 8.6, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apiiro writes "A great secrets detection feature, good visibility, and integrates well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Apiiro is most compared with Snyk, Cycode, Ox Security, SonarQube and Checkmarx One, whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Noname Security. See our Apiiro vs. NGINX App Protect report.

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