We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"It is a stable solution."
"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."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"The product offers high availability."
"It is easy to expand. Our clients are enterprise-size."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"The most valuable aspect is that it establishes user security."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"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 would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
Imperva DDoS is ranked 19th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, F5 Advanced WAF and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our Imperva DDoS vs. Radware Alteon report.
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