We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) 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."The decryption is great."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that the blocking of IP's."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP AFM is the iRules where I can customize the configuration."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"DDoS protection and WAF are the most valuable features. It is easy to deploy a service. It is easy and quick to deploy to a new 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."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"The pricing of the solution could be a little bit better."
"The web gateway feature could improve in F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"There is room for improvement in Advanced Firewall Manager's dashboard statistics, especially during attacks."
"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."
"The initial setup of F5 BIG-IP AFM in a complex environment was simple. However, the full deployment took us approximately one year."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"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."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"Users would benefit from better documentation. There is official documentation, but sometimes we need more detail. We have some use cases that are not so run of the mill. It would be great if there was a knowledge base that we could go to for more answers."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". 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 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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