F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall vs. NGINX App Protect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Advanced WAF
Score 9.2 out of 10
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F5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.N/A
NGINX App Protect
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
NGINX App Protect is a web application firewall, from F5.N/A
Pricing
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallNGINX App Protect
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
F5 Advanced WAFNGINX App Protect
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallNGINX App Protect
Considered Both Products
F5 Advanced WAF
Chose F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall
F5 APM beats them all, hands down for internally hosted applications.
NGINX App Protect

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Top Pros

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User Ratings
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallNGINX App Protect
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(11 ratings)
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User Testimonials
F5 Big-IP Advanced Web Application FirewallNGINX App Protect
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
Advanced WAF is well suited for protection against account enumeration attacks, protection against known and new increasing attack vectors through out of the box attack signatures and threat campaigns. Also, up to date and accurate IP intelligence database to block based on known IP reputation.
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F5
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Pros
F5
  • So the product definitely is helping us for sudden attacks through DDOS, some injection ingestion into UI URLs, and definitely it's capturing those and I definitely see that as an advantage for us. They can stop the hackers from using our endpoints.
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F5
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Cons
F5
  • We would like to see more use of this product in such a way that we can insert JavaScript so that we can understand the bot detection very well. I understand that it does bot detection, with some constraints, but we have to expand that bot detection very well to do fraud detection much better just like Google Recapture.
  • Second is the WAF product. Sometimes we are getting false positives just because in the scope of the applications we had to stop certain headers, HTP headers, and we would like to see if there is some kind of a way to enhance the product to use machine learning to do this automatically or suggest to do it automatically in the future.
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F5
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Alternatives Considered
F5
F5 WAF provides much more control and has a lot of features that can be used to protect your applications. You can have granular configuration settings per application and disable attack signatures on very specific scenarios whenever is needed. Also, the logs are very detailed and helpful to analyze the requests.
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F5
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Return on Investment
F5
  • This has been good overall. It has a positive impact on the security of our applications. I don't have necessarily a measurement on ROI, but it definitely definitely added to the security of our products.
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F5
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