We compared Imperva DDoS and Imperva Web Application Firewall based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Imperva DDoS seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers feel that because Imperva Web Application Firewall can be difficult to use, Imperva DDoS is a better investment.
"Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy."
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"There are a number of features that are valuable such as the account takeover and various antivirus features."
"Imperva is a Gartner leader, so its scalability, performance, and features are excellent."
"The features I have found most valuable with Imperva Web Application Firewall are account takeover protection, advanced bot protection, and API security."
"The tool's profiling feature maps all the web application directories and related components on the profile directory. It has improved the security of my client's website applications."
"The most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are performance and flexibility. We can extend or customize the box itself."
"If you are using the appliance as opposed to the virtual deployment, it can stand as the network layer-two and provide real transparency."
"The solution is scalable."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"Users would benefit from better documentation. There is official documentation, but sometimes we need more detail. We have some use cases that are not so run of the mill. It would be great if there was a knowledge base that we could go to for more answers."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"It would be helpful to have a "recommended deployment", or even a list of basic features that should either be used or turned on by default."
"I don't really use it and therefore can't speak to areas of improvement."
"The Imperva Web Application Firewall automations are good, but there is still room for improvement with them."
"I loved the approach of the cloud. The cloud has a lot of new features, like advanced web protection and DDoS protection. If those could also be on-boarded onto the on-prem versions, that would be ideal. They need to pay attention to both deployment options and not just favor one."
"It's a complicated tool to keep."
"They recently separated the WAF and the DAM management gateways in order for each of these to be managed from different areas, so I believe it now requires additional investments for what was previously a single complete solution."
"The reporting is missing some features, such as: only two export formats, and the time period does not include the last day, week, year."
"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."
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Imperva DDoS is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 47 reviews. Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. 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 Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Web Application Firewall. See our Imperva DDoS vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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