We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and Imperva DDoS 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."It's scalable and very easy to manage."
"Feature-wise, they are always cutting edge and up-to-date. Many features aren't available via competitors. There's always a lot of enhanced critical features that just aren't available through anyone else, or, if they are, are too lightweight."
"I like them because I like the security solution. They get extra marks compared to other solutions or competitors. There are more features than any other product I can think of. They're always monitoring, and the security features offer more than other, lesser products."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Advanced WAF is its grand unity of the implementation, where you have the freedom to configure based on how it affects your use case or your organization. With the default setting of implicit deny, you can gradually start defining and deploying the tool to align with your environment, whether it is outdated, recent, or futuristic. This allows you to customize the solution to protect you from threat actors. You have the ability to define what the advanced threat act should do - whether it should alert, deny, or both - and it will deliver based on your configuration. Unlike other online solutions, F5 Advanced WAF provides flexibility to deliver to your unique environment the way you want."
"This solution inspects your traffic and based on that, automatically create distinct qualities for you, so you can add this to the policy already created. That's what I like most."
"I like all of the features, but the main one is the attack signatures."
"Very easy to implement and works well."
"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"I like the user-friendly interface."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"They should work on the virtualization of NGINX."
"The solution should include RASP for another level of protection at the code itself."
"One thing that can be improved, is to increase the quantity over predefine policy."
"Scalability could be improved."
"The reporting portion of F5 Advance WAF is not great. They need to work out something better, as it is very basic. You only see the top IPs, I think there is more they can offer."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve the reporting. It's a bit difficult to populate, them. If you're not so familiar with the functions, such as where to find the logs and other settings."
"The solution should include protection against web page attacks like what is available in FortiWeb."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"Imperva always needs to adjust to new versions of cyber attacks, it needs to be faster, improve the resiliency of the software of the solution."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 19th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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