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We performed a comparison between F5 Silverline Managed Services 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.
To learn more, read our detailed F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. NGINX App Protect Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides.""It's a good front end for public infrastructure""We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents.""The most valuable features are the configuration and configuring the process.""F5 technical support is really good.""The most valuable feature is flexibility.""The initial setup is straightforward.""The product’s UI is easy to understand."

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"It is a very good tool for load balancing.""It has the best documentation features.""The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use.""NGINX App Protect has complete control over the HTTP session.""The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its open source.""The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility.""WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall.""We were looking for a product that is capable of complete automation and a container based solution. It's working."

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Cons
"I just hope the price can be cheaper.""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.""We'd like more AI to be used. Right now, they don't use it enough.""There is a lot of room for improvement with their tech support. I am not sure F5 Silverline Managed Services can be classified as having tech support.""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.""The navigation is difficult to use.""You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell.""The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better."

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"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment.""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.""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.""The integration of NGINX App Protect could improve.""The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections.""NGINX App Protect could improve security.""They could provide a better user interface.""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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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 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."
  • "The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be reduced."
  • "The product’s pricing is reasonable."
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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: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. 
    Top Answer:The solution has yearly, three-year, and five-year subscriptions.
    Top Answer:NGINX App Protect could provide a better user interface.
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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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    Financial Services Firm44%
    Non Tech Company22%
    Individual & Family Service11%
    Comms Service Provider11%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    Government8%
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    Financial Services Firm33%
    Comms Service Provider33%
    Insurance Company17%
    Computer Software Company17%
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Healthcare Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise60%
    Buyer's Guide
    F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. NGINX App Protect
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. NGINX App Protect and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 19 reviews. F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. NGINX App Protect report.

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