We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is very easy to use, from SSL Management to enabling, disabling loads, applications, systems, and monitoring. Overall the solution keeps our application functional from a client's perspective 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
"The solution is very easy to use and easy to understand. It's quite an intuitive system."
"Secure and scalable traffic management solution for applications. Good for bigger environments."
"The main reason that we suggest this product to our clients is the great integration with other security tools, such as IBM Guardium."
"The stability is excellent."
"The product is quite flexible."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize."
"The most valuable features of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security are the user-friendliness, easy-to-use interface compared to competitors, database operations do not need a specialist, and simple to manage for our security team. Additionally, the solution can show all the databases and the level of sensitivity. It can show what is more sensitive or less sensitive."
"This solution has helped secure our Internet-based services, protecting us against DoS and other types of web-based attacks."
"Database reporting features are valuable to us."
"The performance of the solution is good."
"The company focuses on and has a passion for security."
"The discovery module provides good visibility."
"The product’s most valuable feature is real-time highlights."
"A solution which does what other name brand products do for a lower cost."
"LTM's cloud capabilities could be improved. Cloud providers all offer load balancing, but you can't get the same level of security. F5's cloud service is still not on par with its on-prem service."
"Based on my experience using F5 and by only taking into consideration the last seven years, I have found that the reporting mechanism is bad."
"The one gap I saw was that pure LBN integration is a little tricky. The insertion of F5 in LBN is a little tricky. They need to work on something, on products by which they can insert F5 in any sort of cloud environment."
"I would like to see better integration."
"The management interface is unclear, complex, and not concise. I would like a better user interface."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"The deployment can take some time because you can do a lot of configuring to meet the needs of the use cases for clients."
"I would like F5 to incorporate the ability to create your own custom roles and customised permissions within the product set. I have seen many customers wanting to give a certain level of access for the purposes of out-of-hours servicing to out-of-hours staff or teams that fulfill an operations type role."
"It is very expensive. Its price can be better."
"I would like to see integration such that there is support for different kinds of environments, such as on-premises versus cloud."
"Database security from the access management perspective could be better."
"Some cloud versions are not supported by the agent."
"I have worked with IBM before, and I prefer its ease of deployment and management. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security has tricky deployment, whereas IBM's deployment is straightforward because of the UI."
"Imperva needs to improve their cloud capabilities."
"The GUI for this solution could use some improvement."
"I would like to see improvement in the integration part of the tool. This should be an easy process."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security writes "The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect and jSonar.
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