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."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"The product helps us provide security validation by protecting various applications from getting hacked."
"It blocks various attacks and mitigates disasters from occurring."
"The protection is very useful."
"The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"It is stable."
"I find the signature base is very helpful to see traffic"
"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."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"I like the user-friendly interface."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"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."
"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."
"The product is expensive."
"Currently, we have eighty F5s and we need some kind of management software. It would be very helpful."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"For configuring the firewall, every single vendor on the planet has pretty much the same logic when it comes to firewalls, and F5 has a completely different approach and completely different behavior."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"Some spam can go by the firewall."
"There should be simplified and better integration with BIG-IQ."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"It's quite expensive."
"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."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"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."
"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."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
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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 5th 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, Radware DefensePro and Cloudflare, 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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