We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS 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."We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."
"Gives us the ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"DDoS protection and WAF are the most valuable features. It is easy to deploy a service. It is easy and quick to deploy to a new website."
"The policies are flexible based on the technologies you use."
"It has the best documentation features."
"The initial setup was simple and took three to four days."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is the reverse proxy."
"The most valuable feature is that there is a link in the system that will help to analyze the security of an application when something abnormal is found."
"NGINX App Protect has complete control over the HTTP session."
"WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall."
"NGINX App Protect is stable."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"The configuration needs to be more flexible because it is difficult to do things that are outside of the ordinary."
"NGINX App Protect could improve security."
"The dashboard could provide a more comprehensive view of the status of the connections."
"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."
"I encountered issues with NGINX App Protect while trying to upgrade custom rules."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
"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 price of NGINX App Protect could improve."
Imperva DDoS is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews while NGINX App Protect is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 19 reviews. Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NGINX App Protect writes "Capable of complete automation but is costly ". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas NGINX App Protect is most compared with AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Noname Security. See our Imperva DDoS vs. NGINX App Protect report.
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