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Imperva Bot Management vs Imperva DDoS comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Imperva Bot Management
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Bot Management (9th)
Imperva DDoS
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
CDN (5th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (18th), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Security Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Imperva Bot Management is designed for Bot Management and holds a mindshare of 6.5%, down 7.1% compared to last year.
Imperva DDoS, on the other hand, focuses on Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection, holds 6.5% mindshare, down 7.7% since last year.
Bot Management
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection
 

Featured Reviews

RiaanDu Preez - PeerSpot reviewer
A product that offers advanced bot detection capabilities and reporting features
The scalability of the product is high. I rate the product's scalability a ten out of ten. It is very easy to use the scalability features of the product, especially if the product is deployed on the cloud model, but it may be a different story if the tool is deployed on an on-premises model. The difficulty of using the scalability feature nude of the product arises when the client does not have the capacity to scale up. My company deals with businesses of all sizes. One of my company's clients who uses the solution has five members and a large e-commerce environment. There are also enterprise-sized clients who use the solution.
DerrickAkankwasa - PeerSpot reviewer
Provide DDoS protection and better security at effective rate
It is expanding its number of data centers for scrubbing traffic. Currently, there is only one POP for cleaning in South Africa. They might add another POP in North Africa, possibly in Nigeria or Egypt. Latency concerns customers, especially in regions like East and West Africa, where traffic has to travel to South Africa before returning. Increasing the number of POPs across the continent would help address these latency issues and improve overall service. While the platform is already quite strong, there’s always room for improvement, especially in keeping up with emerging trends and new types of attacks. Enhancing security capabilities could be beneficial. Integrating more advanced AI features could significantly improve its effectiveness and help customers leverage these tools more effectively. It would be great to see more focus on AI integration to handle and analyze data more efficiently.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I am impressed with the product's automatic bot mechanism. It also gives us the control to create our own custom bot rules."
"The stability of the product is good since I haven't had any problems with the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Imperva DDoS is to make our website available for our customers' requests 24 hours a day."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"There are quite a few useful Imperva Incapsula features. For example, one of them is the reports. The graphics are very good and it's easy to configure. The whole process is very fast and reliable too. They have good tech support as well."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
 

Cons

"Sometimes, it takes a bit of time for the technical staff of the solution to get back to our company with a resolution for our problems."
"The tool needs to include artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also needs to improve profiling."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"We faced issues regarding compliance with client procedures. The client had strict compliance rules, and Imperva needed to be on a VM, while the client required containerization, causing a conflict. They went with Imperva for the on-premise version but shelved the cloud project due to too many blockers."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"It's quite expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"The tool's pricing is good."
"The data packages are higher than our needs so we end up paying for data that we don't use."
"Varies depending on the needs of the customer."
"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 on par with other solutions such as Cloudflare and Akamai."
"Pricing could be more competitive."
"There is a license or subscription renewal that our customers pay."
"The cost is somewhere around $10,000 a site. For every site, you pay individually. For every DNS entry, you have you pay."
"The solution's price is high for small companies."
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Comparison Review

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Nov 6, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Media Company
15%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Imperva Bot Management?
The stability of the product is good since I haven't had any problems with the solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imperva Bot Management?
I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price. The price of the product also depends on the cost of the tools offered by competitors li...
What needs improvement with Imperva Bot Management?
At the moment, I am okay with the product. I haven't found something that needs to be improved yet. I am not physically busy with any implementations associated with the product, but I will share t...
What do you like most about Imperva Incapsula?
We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imperva DDoS?
The pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Imperva DDoS are reasonable for the amount of technical capabilities provided. I would rate the pricing of Imperva DDoS as five, where one is very cheap a...
What needs improvement with Imperva DDoS?
I would like to see improvements in the pooling of threats and attacks, possibly to enlarge the scale of indicators of compromise. For example, the initiation of an attack on the endpoint level cou...
 

Also Known As

Distil Networks, Distil Bot Detection and Mitigation
Imperva Incapsula
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

StubHub, Yelp, Glassdoor, DowJones, The Wall Street Journal, Whitepages, CrunchBase, AOL, Staples, Wayfair, EasyJet, Autotrader, Skyscanner, Orbitz, and Conde Nast, Amadeus, and Thomson Reuters, just to name a few.
Hitachi, BNZ, Bitstamp, Moz, InnoGames, BTCChina, Wix, LivePerson, Zillow and more.
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