We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules."
"The technical support is good."
"There are key things that are used for our enterprise customers, such as Lambda and DNS."
"The UI is good."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It's very user-friendly."
"The web application firewall brought us good security and a view of the accesses/blocks of the entire domain and subdomain that were accessed both by region (country) and IPs."
"The cyber intelligence feature is the most valuable."
"The discovery module provides good visibility."
"Database reporting features are valuable to us."
"The most valuable features of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security are the user-friendliness, easy-to-use interface compared to competitors, database operations do not need a specialist, and simple to manage for our security team. Additionally, the solution can show all the databases and the level of sensitivity. It can show what is more sensitive or less sensitive."
"The functionality is very useable and easy to understand."
"Ability to send event monitoring and administrative activities."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"This solution has helped secure our Internet-based services, protecting us against DoS and other types of web-based attacks."
"It should confirm audit findings of the assigned area with auditees to ensure that the audit conclusions are based on an accurate understanding of the issues."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"It would be good if Cloudflare could have more servers for better traffic routing or an increase in the traffic routed. This is what I'd like to improve in Cloudflare."
"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."
"In the last two years, there has been a certain amount of downtime when using the VDM."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript."
"Technical support for this solution needs improvement."
"Overall, it's a very good product but they could do with some modifications log-wise."
"I have worked with IBM before, and I prefer its ease of deployment and management. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security has tricky deployment, whereas IBM's deployment is straightforward because of the UI."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"There is sometimes lost communication and it can take a lot of troubleshooting to solve."
"The GUI is bad."
"They can maybe look at its pricing model. Its pricing could be cheaper for the African countries or developing economies."
"Database security from the access management perspective could be better."
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Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 55 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security writes "The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and AWS Shield, whereas Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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