I have been dealing with NGINX App Protect and the WAF policy. I usually recommend NGINX App Protect for banking and telecom, and for anyone that has their own database or servers that they host websites from. Usually, this is the presales part, and they do this work. I go to show them the presentation of what we can offer or show them the POC that we are already hosting on our servers.

I really love NGINX App Protect. It has been two months, and I love the functionality. I love the ease of implementation and the NIM, the Instance Manager. It is very easy to use and very user-friendly.

Its integration with DevOps is pretty good. Currently, I am using it as an NGINX Ingress controller, using the Plus certificate, and it is working perfectly. It is making it a lot easier than the regular one.

I assess the impact of real-time threat detection on the cybersecurity measures by testing it on the local environment and showing it to the customer. They appreciate it, and I appreciate it, so I think it is pretty good. Some threats like injection and running scripts, SQL injections, these all get stopped and rejected by the server, so I think it is doing its job.

I did not face any issues with NGINX App Protect. The only issue that we had is that someone was trying to install the POC for the customer, and he by mistake installed the Instance Manager on the same machine with NGINX Plus and the NGINX Agent, so this caused a conflict with the packages. We had to reinstall everything. I think this would not happen if it was on Kubernetes or something, but this was the issue, and we did not know that this was the issue.

For now, I think NGINX App Protect is good, but maybe I would like to see the logging feature added. If they can provide a real logging system, we would not have to integrate with Prometheus or any other logging tool. I think this would be a lot better, maybe a plugin that we can install. Maybe a logging portal that we can use from NGINX itself would be beneficial.

I have been dealing with NGINX App Protect for nothing more than two months.

Before working with WAF, I did not work with anything related to NGINX at all. I was just working with regular NGINX. If we have a front-end server, we implement the normal community edition just to redirect and reverse proxy, nothing related to any security.

Mail Proxy Server and SMTP are quite effective features in the product. The tool's API connectivity across the hybrid network is pretty impressive, which is almost the same as the threat intelligence capabilities of NGINX.

The product's price is high, making it an area of concern where improvements are required. The tool's licensing model is also not good.

The product should have more documentation, especially like the ones provided by other OEMs.

I have been using NGINX App Protect for five years. I use NGINX App Protect WAF Release 5.0. My company has a partnership with F5.

My company is currently dealing with one enterprise-sized company and one financial organization.

The product's initial setup phase was a bit difficult since the articles and other documentation were not that good.

When it comes to the implementation part, at least seven days are needed for the testing phase since there may be some struggles in several places, and one may have to go directly to the OEM just to make sure that we can study the tool properly.

The product's price is high.

If NGINX App Protect does not fit the budget of our customers, then my company recommends Radware to such clients. Radware's OEM engagement is better than that of NGINX App Protect.

I don't have any problem with NGINX App Protect's OEM engagement. When I directly engage with the tool's OEM, I see that they are really helpful. When it comes to OEM, F5 has an amazing feature set and is pretty technical. Technicians from F5 can help any time with any request of a client associated with the tool, and they also help to help clients so our company's deals with them can mature further.

The product is good since NGINX is involved in a lot of research and development work. Two years ago, my company used the firewall from NGINX. In the previous year, my company entered into a deal with Radware.

Whether I would recommend the product to others depends on their requirements and the type of business they are doing, among other factors.

Speaking about how the tool has been able to handle new and emerging security threats, I would say that my company is testing the product to see if it fits our requirements. My company is testing some threats.

My company has not tested the product with any of the tool's AI-driven security initiatives, but we may do so later since we are only working on one deal associated with Radware.

The tool is not complex and is very user-friendly.

I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

The most valuable feature of the solution is that IVF and ICSI are covered under the firewall option offered by the tool. I don't have a specific feature I like the most since I look at features through comparisons of different firewall products and the features of such tools.

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. The main menu can be quite confusing.

After you implement it, it's not so easy to understand how it works. Though in my company, we understand the basics of the product, if you want to explore the more advanced features, then the principal product doesn't explain it to us, which can be quite confusing when navigating through the main menu.

I have been using NGINX App Protect for five years. I use the solution in my company.

It is a stable solution.

In our company, we never tried to use the scalability options provided by the tool.

The solution's technical support is good. I rate the technical support an eight to nine out of ten.

Previously, our company was using Fortinet. I don't know why my company switched from Fortinet to NGINX App Protect because it happened before I joined the organization.

The product's initial setup phase was easy.

The price of NGINX App Protect is not much different from the products that fall under the leader category of Gartner Magic Quadrant.

My company needs to expand its options to see if some other brand apart from NGINX App Protect is faster.

As the license for NGINX App Protect in our company will expire in a few months, my company wants to make a decision on whether to extend the services of the tool or not based on the research we do on other platforms in the market.

My company is satisfied with the product.

For the user interface, I rate the product an eight out of ten.

For the functionalities of the product, I rate the tool a ten out of ten.

The solution has the best traffic management and security management features. In addition, it has good interface and documentation features. Also, it integrates with other solutions.

The solution's technical support could be better.

I have been using the solution for six years.

It is a stable solution.

We plan to increase the solution's usage in our organization.

The solution's technical support team is good. Although, sometimes they ask us to provide the configuration file instead of addressing the current technical issue. Most of the time, the error doesn't need a configuration file to resolve it.

The solution generates a return on investment.

The solution's price is reasonable. Its license renewal costs around R200,000.

The solution requires essential training to understand the functionality. I rate it a ten out of ten.