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FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) vs. Imperva DDoS
March 2024
Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (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.
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Featured Review
Aung Min Oo
A tool to protect websites from malware and adware attacks that needs to improve its scalability
From a benefit perspective, FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects the customers’ websites, which are used to communicate with the... Read more →
Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri
I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions.
We never used to know about threat and attack signatures. By using Imperva WAF, we could identify our weak points where an attacker was trying to... Read more →
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Pros
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall blocks attacks from application layers and provides protection.""The initial setup was easy since it was possible to get remote support for the product.""The tool secures our critical applications, especially the mobile money application, which is often targeted by attacks. The solution provides rapid protection and has proven reliable against various threats.""The tool's HTTP traffic, website fixing, and blocking are fantastic. It is user-friendly with easy configuration.""The machine learning feature reduces the false positives.""It is good for web tracking applications.""The machine learning on FortiWeb WAF is valuable.""The product is easy to configure."

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"Simplifies putting everything in code.""The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers.""It is an effective threat mitigation tool.""On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat.""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.""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.""This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment.""The most valuable features are DDoS protection."

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Cons
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall's signature database updates could be improved.""There is room for improvement in pricing, and actually, the price is a bit higher because on the same terms I purchased, the support subscription is so high.""WAF needs more signatures on FortiWeb and updates the database continuously to protect against new attacks.""We have encountered issues with webhooks and management of FortiWeb Web Application Firewall's on-premise version.""It would be good if the solution integrated with other solutions, like SAP.""The documentation is poor.""The product lacks features offered by enterprise-level firewall tools.""FortiWeb Web Application Firewall needs to improve its performance."

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"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management.""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.""It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard.""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.""There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features.""Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa.""The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies.""The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "FortiWeb Web Application Firewall's pricing is suited for small or medium organizations."
  • "It is a cost-effective product. If you need an extra module in the product, there will be an extra cost in addition to the licensing fee."
  • "FortiWeb WAF is priced well for customers compared to other vendors' solutions."
  • "FortiWeb has a good presence because of its price."
  • "It is a cheap solution."
  • "FortiWeb Web Application Firewall is not expensive."
  • "I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price, and ten is a low price."

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  • "For enterprise contracts you will be in touch with a dedicated account manager who will guide you regarding licensing."
  • "​Although the pricing can be a little high, it is worth the protection and security that it offers.​"
  • "The data packages are higher than our needs so we end up paying for data that we don't use."
  • "The cost is on par with other solutions such as Cloudflare and Akamai."
  • "It is not expensive compared to the other similar solutions in this category."
  • "It is a very expensive solution. The price is very high. A lot of customers tell us that they would love to use Imperva more. I have some customers who have 50 websites, but they have only 10 websites on Imperva because of the price. They would love to have all their websites running through Imperva, but they can't. They have to choose the more critical websites to protect because the price is very high. It is a very good product, but it is too expensive. If you buy a plan for 20 megabytes and you don't consume all of your 20 megabytes, it is okay, but if you consume more, you are charged for the superior traffic."
  • "The cost is somewhere around $10,000 a site. For every site, you pay individually. For every DNS entry, you have you pay."
  • "It is expensive."

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    Comparison Review
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    CloudFlare vs Incapsula: Web Application Firewall
    CloudFlare vs Incapsula: Round 2 Web Application Firewall Comparative Penetration Testing Analysis Report v1.0 Summary This document contains the results of a second comparative penetration test conducted by a team of security specialists at Zero Science Lab against two cloud-based Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions: Incapsula and Cloudflare. This test was designed to bypass security controls in place, in any possible way, circumventing whatever filters they have. Given the rise in application-level attacks, the goal of the test was to provide IT managers of online businesses with a comparison of these WAFs against real-world threats in simulated real-world conditions. Zero Science Lab is a Macedonian Information Security Research and Development Laboratory that specializes in information security hardening, consulting, network security, vulnerability research, software and hardware security assessment, penetration testing, malware analysis, forensics and much more - https://www.zeroscience.mk Background In February 2013, we conducted the first comparative pentest analysis of the CloudFlare, Incapsula and ModSecurity Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions. The goal of a WAF is to block hacker attacks / unwanted malicious traffic to your web application with as few false positives as possible. Since then, all three vendors had replied to the findings, applying patches to the discovered bypasses and improving their products to protect their… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    What do you like most about FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)?
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtration, web filter, application filter, and IPS.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FortiWeb Web Appl...
    Top Answer:I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
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    What needs improvement with FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF)?
    Top Answer:It would be good if the solution integrated with other solutions, like SAP.
    Read all 9 answers   →
    What do you like most about Imperva Incapsula?
    Top Answer:We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imperva Incapsula?
    Top Answer:The solution is very affordable. It's based on the traffic utilization, the average traffic utilization, not the DDoS traffic. Therefore, if you're being DDoSed, you don't pay extra for the absorption… more »
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    What needs improvement with Imperva Incapsula?
    Top Answer:It’s hard to think of an improvement. The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition. You would ordinarily say something like API protection. However, they've got that… more »
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    Ranking
    16th
    out of 82 in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Views
    149
    Comparisons
    127
    Reviews
    13
    Average Words per Review
    363
    Rating
    8.1
    18th
    out of 82 in Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Views
    2,665
    Comparisons
    2,250
    Reviews
    4
    Average Words per Review
    485
    Rating
    8.3
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    Imperva Incapsula
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    Overview

    FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF) protects business-critical web applications from attacks that target known and unknown vulnerabilities. Advanced ML-powered features improve security and reduce administrative overhead. Capabilities include anomaly detection, API discovery and protection, bot mitigation, and advanced threat analytics to identify the most critical threats across all protected applications.

    Imperva DDoS is a solution that offers protection for web applications and websites and all their associated business-critical data from cyberattacks. The cloud-based application delivery service helps improve user experiences by improving their performance. Through its security platform, Imperva DDoS also provides DDoS mitigation, a web application firewall, and a global load balancer, and includes a content delivery network — all designed to maximize performance.

    Imperva DDoS Features

    Imperva DDoS has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • API security
    • Web application firewall
    • Bot management
    • Application delivery
    • Runtime protection (RASP)
    • Discovery and assessment
    • Data protection
    • Data risk analytics
    • Data privacy
    • Application delivery control (ADC)
    • Content delivery network (CDN)
    • DDoS mitigation
    • Global server load-balancing (GSLB)
    • Web application firewall (WAF)
    • Client-side protection
    • Runtime protection

    Imperva DDoS Benefits

    There are several benefits to implementing Imperva DDoS. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Reduce web application risk: Imperva DDoS includes automatic policy creation and fast rule propagation that give your IT and security departments the ability to use third-party code without risk while working at the pace of DevOps.
    • Security from edge to database: Imperva DDoS’s WAF feature secures from edge to database, so the traffic you receive is only the traffic you want.
    • Safeguard sensitive and personal data: Imperva DDoS provides visibility into sensitive and personal data, with the controls to protect that data and the ability to unify management across cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid environments to help accommodate changing threats, new regulations, and challenging audits.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Imperva DDoS users.

    PeerSpot user, Etienne W., CDN & Cybersecurity Engineer - Web performance & security at CDN Tech / Ecritel, says, “It is a good solution that allows us to protect websites. It is stable, scalable, quick and easy to use.” He goes on to explain, “WAF protection works almost out-of-the-box. The Anti-DDoS mitigation in less than 1s, I saw it many times in production, I can say it works. CDN has high performances, and the Smart Caching mode is really "smart" (you can do some efficient caching even if you're not a specialist). Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."

    An IT Senior Manager at an outsourcing company mentions, “The most valuable features are DDoS protection. The Incapsula [Imperva DDoS] environment helps us monitor all the web activity. All the web activity is passed through their WAF cloud services, then that can help us to monitor those activities. That can help protect against DDoS hacking.”

    Another PeerSpot reviewer, Ben D., Sales Executive at EVVO LABS, comments, "Imperva Incapsula [DDoS] has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWASP vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."

    A Solutions Architect at a financial services firm states, “The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure. The solution keeps itself up to date itself and there's no customization that we need to do. It makes it extremely easy and cuts back on the amount of work required, and saves us on man-hours.”

    Sample Customers
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    Hitachi, BNZ, Bitstamp, Moz, InnoGames, BTCChina, Wix, LivePerson, Zillow and more.
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    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Non Tech Company11%
    Marketing Services Firm8%
    Insurance Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business46%
    Midsize Enterprise31%
    Large Enterprise23%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business49%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise62%
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    FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 13 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is rated 8.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) writes "Protects internal applications and prevents target attacks ". 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". FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF and Azure Front Door, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) vs. Imperva DDoS report.

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