We performed a comparison between Cloudflare DDoS and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It will take the blow rather than our applications should an attack occur."
"The simplicity of the solution is its valuable features as almost no effort was needed to learn the configurations. It is also one of the cheapest firewalls available in this category."
"The best feature is rate limiting. If I'm expecting 500 visits per hour, Cloudflare will limit the requests if I suddenly get 50,000."
"Cloudflare DDoS is better than its competitors for its security, deployment, and scalability."
"Cloudflare DDoS mitigates DDoS attacks."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution has different options that can be used to differentiate DDoS attacks."
"The capabilities of the software are strong enough for me to do what it's supposed to do. For me, we don't need to do a lot of configuration on our site. We just enable it and monitor it."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"IncapRules is one of the most valuable features, as you can create your own security and access control rules on top of your security policy. Using IncapRules we were able to easily block Layer 7 DDoS attacks several times."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"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."
"The tool should provide on-premise versions. Currently, all versions are cloud-based."
"The initial onboarding was causing us some confusion."
"The free plan has limitations. For example, I can only set up three rules, and the application firewall is unavailable."
"Our customers no longer use Cloudflare because its service is subpar."
"Cloudflare DDoS has poor technical support."
"The software has automated alerts, but the automated alerts are not available in the mobile app."
"There are premium tier live service and lower tier live service, so we opted for the lower tier. But there is no medium tier where we pay a little extra and get a bit more service. So if that can be improved."
"The response time for support must be reduced."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"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."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"It's quite expensive."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"Certificate management could be improved."
Cloudflare DDoS is ranked 4th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. Cloudflare DDoS is rated 8.6, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cloudflare DDoS writes "Perfect from my perspective; simple, user-friendly and easy to configure". 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". Cloudflare DDoS is most compared with AWS Shield, Prolexic, StormWall Website Anti-DDoS Protection, Arbor DDoS and Linode, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our Cloudflare DDoS vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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