We performed a comparison between NGINX App Protect and SonicWall Web Application Firewall 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."NGINX App Protect is stable."
"NGINX App Protect has complete control over the HTTP session."
"WAF is useful to track mitigation, inclusion, prevention, and the parametric firewall."
"The most valuable feature is that I can establish different services from the firewall."
"It is a very good tool for load balancing."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is its flexibility."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of NGINX App Protect is the reverse proxy."
"We use SonicWall Web Application Firewall for security and tunneling."
"Capture ATP is a good additional feature in the latest version."
"The solution offers better data protection than competitors."
"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 user interface is an area with shortcomings as it can be quite confusing for users, making it an area where improvements are required."
"It's challenging if you need to go for a high throughput."
"NGINX App Protect could improve security."
"They could provide a better user interface."
"Its technical support could be better."
"As far as scalability, it takes a long time for deployment."
"The solution needs an access management feature with API integration so we can assign certain levels of access within groups."
"We have a lot of unknown errors popping up in the latest version."
"We should get the logs from the solution, and it should communicate with the local DNS."
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NGINX App Protect is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 19 reviews while SonicWall Web Application Firewall is ranked 25th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. NGINX App Protect is rated 8.2, while SonicWall Web Application Firewall 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 SonicWall Web Application Firewall writes "A stable and durable solution that can be used for security and tunneling". NGINX App Protect is most compared with AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, whereas SonicWall Web Application Firewall is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our NGINX App Protect vs. SonicWall Web Application Firewall report.
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