Azure Web Application Firewall vs Imperva DDoS comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Web Application Firewall
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
13th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (18th)
Imperva DDoS
Ranking in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
18th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
CDN (6th), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Azure Web Application Firewall is 7.5%, up from 5.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Imperva DDoS is 2.1%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Unique Categories:
Microsoft Security Suite
1.9%
CDN
6.5%
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
8.4%
 

Featured Reviews

Audrien Manfo - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 28, 2024
Good features and protects well against DDoS attacks but needs a bigger knowledge base
We primarily use the solution for cloud security The solution has been very good at helping us avoid DDoS attacks.  The solution is very good. It has a lot of useful features. It's great for protecting against DDoS attacks.  Its security control is very good.  The knowledge base could be…
ST
Jun 4, 2024
Helps to automate production but needs to improve its compliance and customer support
My use case involved handling specific web applications for our operations team Imperva DDoS helps us automate production. The client had specific requirements for a cloud project in the financial sector. We faced issues regarding compliance with client procedures. The client had strict…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It has been a stable product in my experience."
"It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"The initial setup is easy and straightforward...Azure Web Application Firewall is a scalable product."
"It's great for protecting against DDoS attacks."
"We have found the most valuable features to be the web application, minimal skills required for management, control through policies, and automation."
"The integration it has with GitHub is great."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"Provides Anti-DDoS protection, as well as other protections like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and antiscanner. These types of protection are valuable to the business due to the daily attacks on our portals, and that often cannot be seen without a tool like this."
"​Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
 

Cons

"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"Azure WAF should not be deployed in the middle of the traffic."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
"In Brazil, we have some problems with the phone service that affect our connection with the cloud. However, it isn't common."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"The knowledge base could be improved."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"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 DDoS does not provide version control."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is for this solution is fair and there is a license needed."
"Azure WAF has price advantages over other WAF solutions. The pricing model is flexible because you pay on a scale based on the level of protection you need."
"We have an enterprise agreement with Microsoft and the pricing is good."
"The price of the solution depends on your architecture and how you manage it. You can control the cost in Azure quite well. The costs do not directly correlate to expenses in the features we are using."
"I give the pricing a nine out of ten."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a five out of ten."
"Pricing could be more competitive."
"The cost is on par with other solutions such as Cloudflare and Akamai."
"We are satisfied with the pricing."
"For enterprise contracts you will be in touch with a dedicated account manager who will guide you regarding licensing."
"The data packages are higher than our needs so we end up paying for data that we don't use."
"​Although the pricing can be a little high, it is worth the protection and security that it offers.​"
"There is a license or subscription renewal that our customers pay."
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Comparison Review

it_user68487 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 6, 2013
CloudFlare vs Incapsula: Web Application Firewall
CloudFlare vs Incapsula: Round 2 Web Application Firewall Comparative Penetration Testing Analysis Report v1.0 Summary This document contains the results of a second comparative penetration test conducted by a team of security specialists at Zero Science Lab against two cloud-based Web…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Azure Web Application Firewall?
The knowledge base could be improved. They should make it so that, if anyone wants to jump into cloud security management on Axure, they can easily start. It's important that they make the technolo...
What do you like most about Imperva Incapsula?
We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imperva Incapsula?
The solution is very affordable. It's based on the traffic utilization, the average traffic utilization, not the DDoS traffic. Therefore, if you're being DDoSed, you don't pay extra for the absorpt...
What needs improvement with Imperva Incapsula?
It’s hard to think of an improvement. The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition. You would ordinarily say something like API protection. However, they've got t...
 

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Hitachi, BNZ, Bitstamp, Moz, InnoGames, BTCChina, Wix, LivePerson, Zillow and more.
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