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Vendor: Imperva
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What is Imperva Bot Management?

Distil Networks is the first easy and accurate way to identify and police malicious website traffic, blocking 99.9% of bad bots without impacting legitimate users. Only 41% of web traffic originates from humans, so it’s imperative to be able to detect and block automated attacks. Bots are the key culprits behind web scraping, online fraud, web application security breaches, content spam, digital ad fraud, and downtime. Distil Networks is purpose built to defeat bad bots that circumvent traditional web application defenses like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Distil makes your web applications more secure with API security, real-time threat intelligence, a 24/7 security operations center, and complete visibility and control over human, good bot, and bad bot traffic.
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Imperva Bot Management is the #10 ranked solution in top Bot Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Imperva Bot Management an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Imperva Bot Management is most commonly compared to F5 Shape Security: Imperva Bot Management vs F5 Shape Security. Imperva Bot Management is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 49% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 20% of all views.
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Bot Management
August 2025
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Imperva Bot Management mindshare

As of September 2025, the mindshare of Imperva Bot Management in the Bot Management category stands at 6.7%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Bot Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Imperva Bot Management6.7%
Akamai Bot Manager25.0%
F5 Shape Security18.7%
Other49.6%
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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

  • "The stability of the product is good since I haven't had any problems with the solution."
  • "I am impressed with the product's automatic bot mechanism. It also gives us the control to create our own custom bot rules."

Room for Improvement

  • "Sometimes, it takes a bit of time for the technical staff of the solution to get back to our company with a resolution for our problems."
  • "The tool needs to include artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also needs to improve profiling."

Pricing

  • "I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
  • "The tool's pricing is good."
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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
20%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Media Company
15%
Insurance Company
6%
University
5%
Hospitality Company
5%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Retailer
5%
Security Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
3%
Performing Arts
2%
Pharma/Biotech Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
2%
Renewables & Environment Company
2%
Logistics Company
2%
Mining And Metals Company
2%
Healthcare Company
2%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%

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Learn more about Imperva Bot Management

Imperva Bot Management was previously known as Distil Networks, Distil Bot Detection and Mitigation.

Imperva Bot Management customers

StubHub, Yelp, Glassdoor, DowJones, The Wall Street Journal, Whitepages, CrunchBase, AOL, Staples, Wayfair, EasyJet, Autotrader, Skyscanner, Orbitz, and Conde Nast, Amadeus, and Thomson Reuters, just to name a few.

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Imperva Bot Management Reviews Summary
Author infoRatingReview Summary
Senior Cyber Security Specialist Architect at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees4.0I use Imperva Bot Management for a client who needs robust bot management and DDoS protection. While I'm satisfied with the product, response time from their technical support could be improved. Overall, it effectively protects against bot attacks and scraping.
Application Security Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees4.0I am impressed with Imperva Bot Management's automatic bot mechanism and the ability to create custom bot rules. However, I feel it could benefit from incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance profiling capabilities.