We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF 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."It also has antivirus and DDoS mitigation capabilities. We have enabled these features."
"F5 technical support is excellent. They are experts who always provide the right solution, and they understand the problem. Their response and resolution times are good."
"I like the security features, especially against SQL injection."
"One of the most valuable features is the Local Traffic Manager."
"F5's user-friendly interface and seamless integration stand out as the most valuable features for us."
"The product has valuable features for load balancing, monitoring tools, and HPXpress services."
"In terms of F5 Advanced WAF's most valuable features, I would definitely say its stability. F5 is one the most stable products. Either as the load balancer or the web application firewall, it is very stable."
"F5 Advanced WAF helps our engineers to learn the complete configuration, including fundamental and advanced policies."
"Gives us the ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy."
"I like the user-friendly interface."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"There are quite a few useful Imperva Incapsula features. For example, one of them is the reports. The graphics are very good and it's easy to configure. The whole process is very fast and reliable too. They have good tech support as well."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"F5 Advanced WAF could improve on its funding for WAF features. There is a need to be more advanced WAF features."
"I think the deployment templates can be better."
"The solution should include protection against web page attacks like what is available in FortiWeb."
"We usually use a third-party tool for logging and reporting. It would be nice if we could do that right on this solution. They have one, but it's not very stable. Logging and reporting effectively would be a big enhancement."
"The solution's dashboard could be improved. When you're moving from policy to policy, the logs and the integration of the logs in other systems aren't straightforward."
"There is a learning curve that extends the time of implementation."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"I would like to see a better interface and better documentation compatibility with other products. It's more complicated with OWASP."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"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."
"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."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"It's quite expensive."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"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."
F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 53 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". 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". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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