We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."DDoS protection and WAF are the most valuable features. It is easy to deploy a service. It is easy and quick to deploy to a new website."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure."
"The technical support is excellent."
"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."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"It's quite expensive."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
Earn 20 points
Imperva DDoS is ranked 19th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 38th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while Symantec Web Application Firewall 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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