We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The combination of ADC and WAN is the most valuable feature."
"The Local Traffic Manager (LTM) provides a simple low balance and SSL decryption, in addition to some TCP parameters, for incoming and outgoing traffic to redirect appropriate traffic patterns to appropriate servers."
"The scalability of the solution depends on the sizing of the network. Generally, the scalability is quite good."
"It makes the publishing of applications to the Internet safer."
"We have found the consistency of the application always being the way it is supposed to be as its most valuable feature."
"Great load balancing."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"It is very intuitive, easy to deploy, and manage."
"Imperva's most valuable features are ease of use and log correlation. I also like the ability to trace activity from the host machine to the server access, the user details, and the exact query that they executed. If a database administrator or application process executes a query on the database, people know exactly what was executed, including all the variables."
"Ability to send event monitoring and administrative activities."
"There are three major main use cases of this solution. The first one is to fulfill compliance regulations. Customers—especially the banks, health sector, and manufacturing—need to comply with the regulations in different countries. They have to fulfill compliance regulations around the privacy of data. In order to fulfill those requirements, they're using Imperva. It helps them to fulfill these requirements, and they are not fined by the regulators. That is the first use case why people buy Imperva."
"The company focuses on and has a passion for security."
"The technical support for Imperva is super, super, super."
"It has a user-friendly interface. It is a stable and scalable product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the database security policy."
"As we are very sensitive to financial impacts, this product provides great protection for our organization."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"The initial setup can be complex - it's quite flexible in terms of configuration, but the person configuring it needs to understand the application side, the network side, and the server."
"I would like to see improvement in the manageability and easier setup."
"Security enhancement should be more user friendly."
"Performance: Using the product, applications are jittery."
"The solution's hardware quality needs improvement."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"It would possibly help to get more training, even better in local languages."
"Its reporting can be improved. The reporting feature is currently not good enough for our clients."
"The GUI for this solution could use some improvement."
"They can maybe look at its pricing model. Its pricing could be cheaper for the African countries or developing economies."
"The firewall features are not very strong and should be improved."
"Integration with other databases or third-party products would be useful."
"Technical support for this solution needs improvement."
"I would like to see integration such that there is support for different kinds of environments, such as on-premises versus cloud."
"It is very expensive. Its price can be better."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". 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". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect and jSonar.
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