Indusface Product Review and Analysis for Web Application Firewall

Indusface aka AppTrana is SaaS company that provides web application security for more than 2000 clients. The company provides an integration of web application, scanner, web application firewall, threat information engine and CDN.

The company has been integral part of Forrester and Gartner reports, and have received two major awards, the Economic Times Top 25 and Nasscom DSCI Top Security Company Award.

Though the company provides multiple application security options, the Web Application Firewall has been one of its signature products. In this article, we will take a look at the Indusface product review and its capabilities.

The below image will give you an idea of the capabilities and features you can expect under a Managed WAF,

Indusface Product Review on Web Application Firewall

The Web Application Firewall provides complete security for your application with the assistance of an API while you develop your business and network. This WAF tool takes a risk based approach that will detect vulnerabilities and patch them instantly to reduce any loopholes in the network, including APIs.

Along with that, the company also acts as a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) for those clients that are in need of it. They will act as your extended team of professionals to aid you streamline your web application security and keep your business intact and live.

In this Indusface product review of WAF the capability of continuously scanning your network and application for vulnerabilities and pen-test them to detect risks that come with it. The product also will assure there is zero false positive and ensure the apps are secured 24*7. Among the cyberattacks, DDOS is one major concern for websites and web applications, which is handled efficiently by Indusface’s WAF capabilities, thus will only prevent the actual DDOS and not just all the surge in traffic, thus improving the overall performance of the site.

The first highlighting feature is Bot Management that will secure your websites, apps, and APIs that are artificially generated by BOT devices. Second one will be DDOS Mitigation to ensure business continuity by preventing and detection of unusual traffic behavior. And the third and final one will be Fully Managed API Security thus giving you the freedom to dive deep into the API world without security challenges.

Please take a look at the below product screenshot that clearly shows the malware monitoring, vulnerabilities identified and scans performed.

The user review from Gartner Peer Insights only reinforces the product quality and efficiency in the managed WAF category.

Being a cloud based solution, it was easy to deploy the WAF in our environment without making much changes. However we faced some challenges with regards to onboarding applications which had NTML authentication configured which did not work. ”

– Deputy General Manager, Security and Risk Management.

The product starts at $99 billed monthly per app for its Advance version, and at $399 billed monthly per app for its Premium version.

While we go through the pricing, evaluation and negotiation, also read through Gartner’s say on the product,

Indusface* is a WAF vendor that provides the SaaS-based fully-managed Web Application Firewall. This solution is a good alternative for enterprises that don’t want to procure new hardware and hire or train staff to manage it.

*Indusface WAF is now AppTrana – Gartner

Indusface is definitely the go-to-market WAF tool if your are a startup or SMB and looking for something affordable yet efficient in what it does.

Hope this Indusface product review of Web Application Firewall was useful to your evaluation.

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