We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Imperva Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"Content caching and content compression are good features."
"I am impressed with the product's load-balancing feature."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"There are some features that are configured by default, so even without doing much, it can still provide a level of protection."
"The WAF itself has been very valuable to me because it has such a complete range of features. Another reason why I like it is because it also takes care of the total overview of the traffic over the network."
"There are a number of features that are valuable such as the account takeover and various antivirus features."
"It has threat intelligence and we are using Incapsula. With threat intelligence, we can separate HTTP and HTTPS traffic. We can use Incapsula to send all the threat intelligence to the WAF."
"One good thing about Imperva Web Application Firewall is it can be on the cloud and also it can be on-premise."
"Data masking is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"If you are using the appliance as opposed to the virtual deployment, it can stand as the network layer-two and provide real transparency."
"The dynamic profiling of websites is the solution's most valuable feature. The security is also good."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The L7 Persistent load-balancing algorithm has not worked for me after having tested it many times with my customer's in-house application. I'd like to suggest that the company make sure that all load-balancing algorithms work properly with most applications, even those that are in-house apps."
"Fortinet FortiADC should include an advanced-level SD-WAN."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"The UI interface needs improvement."
"One potential improvement for Imperva is enhancing its alert system."
"I'd like the option to pick your bot protection."
"I would like to improve the tool's turnaround time in terms of support."
"The user interface could be better."
"The only disadvantage of Imperva is that it is a pretty costly solution."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall could improve the API integration. It was complex for us. Additionally, The onboarding could be better."
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Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 44 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and Cloudflare, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door.
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