We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector 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."I have contacted the support team of Akamai... I am happy with their responses and answers to my problems."
"Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"The dashboard is the most interesting feature of the Akamai portal where you can have a detailed analysis of all the attacks that are happening. You can drill down an issue and see exactly what is happening, who are the bad guys attacking your website, and how Akamai is protecting the website. That is the most valuable feature."
"It enables us to move faster with new products because we have this layer of protection set up in our infrastructure."
"Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable."
"The solution can scale extremely well."
"I can attest to its benefits in terms of understanding and mitigating threats...The solution's technical support team seems to be pretty responsive."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"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."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"The solution has a very good interface."
"The most valuable features are DDoS protection."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"In terms of precedence of Akamai rules, the last one is implemented. That is the one that is operational. If two rules contradict, the last one is implemented. We had a clash, but it was really tough to find that out. I would like to have a rulebook because, in their architecture documentation, it is not mentioned anywhere that if two rules clash, the last one works, and if it does not work, then what to do. This is something we were debating today with their tech support. With AWS, we get documents for the issues so that they do not occur in the future. Akamai's support and knowledge base needs to be improved."
"One area where Akamai can improve is the captcha part. Cloudflare provides a captcha if there are a certain number of threats. For example, I can assign that if there are 10 requests within a second from a single IP, it should send a captcha to the user. The user should fill in the captcha, and only after that, the user should be able to access our website. This captcha feature should be built into Bot Manager. I love this captcha feature of Cloudflare."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"The interface is a little bit clunky and can be improved."
"Could integrate more features for each security."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"It would be nice if Akamai Web Application Protector's price is lowered and made cheaper."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"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."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". 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". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and Azure Front Door, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Fortinet FortiADC. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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