We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard WAF and Imperva DDoS 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)."The app control is very sensitive, and the threat detection and prevention is better than other Check Point solutions. There is a centralized management console for threat protection and self-inspection."
"The tool helps us to block IPs and applications."
"It offers good functionality of the application that is currently running."
"After integrating AppSec with other applications, team members can easily work without fear of confidential information exposure."
"The most effective CloudGuard feature for threat prevention is its web app protection."
"On the endpoint side, the most valuable feature is undoubtedly the cloud-based management capability, along with the ransomware protection, despite not encountering any instances so far."
"It is a highly scalable solution with a quick turnaround time for deployment and running of the software across any IT system."
"They offer free trials, which is quite appreciative and grabs more attention from new users and businesses."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"They should improve in the delivery of more detailed reports with more information."
"Improving the process for handling licensing renewals would be a welcome enhancement."
"A feature we'd like to see in the future is something that could protect against other attack vectors, with a focus on application protection."
"You need to know exactly the system. You cannot have someone running the system if they don't have the knowledge to do so."
"I would like to be able to integrate the theme of Artificial Intelligence to help review issues and to monitor and view the security issue while also suggesting and interpreting and additionally configuring solutions - basically, acting as an interpreter."
"We would like to have a solution of this type for the administration of applications from mobile devices."
"One of the big problems we found in Check Point, in general, is the support."
"It doesn't detect user activity like some of its competitors. It's not a vulnerability, but it's a legitimate activity that it doesn't detect. It only detects vulnerabilities or misconfigurations."
"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."
"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."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"It's quite expensive."
Check Point CloudGuard WAF is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 29 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard WAF is rated 9.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard WAF writes "Automation capabilities also help streamline security processes and smooths down API integration processes and detects API availability". 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". Check Point CloudGuard WAF is most compared with SonarQube and Checkmarx One, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF.
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