We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."Technical support was very helpful."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"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."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"Stability is never a concern."
"They have many different options with Palo Alto WildFire and the set-up is quick. If you have all the details in hand, it does not take more than 15 minutes to deploy a firewall."
"The most valuable features are all of the security features in terms of protection and SSL and VPN."
"We get support in the free version."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"The solution is completely integrated with all the other Palo Alto products. I think that it is the best part for endpoint protection. The firewall features include URL and DNS filtering, threat protection, and antivirus."
"What I like about Palo Alto is that it is a complete product, with everything in it."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since we never faced any issues."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"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."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"High availability features are lacking."
"Many years back an update caused an issue with the firewall. However, Palo Alto not only informed us of said issue, they also sent an update that fixed the issue before I even had time to log in to determine if the issue affected our services."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"Management and web filtering can be improved. There should also be better reporting, particularly around web filtering."
"The product fails to offer protection when dealing with high-severity vulnerabilities, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"They can keep on doing more updates. As new malware and viruses are coming out, they can make sure that WildFire is up to date."
"The product's false positive logs could be more user-friendly to understand. They could provide examples of precious cases to learn."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire could improve by adding support for manual submission of suspicious files and URLs. Additionally, it would be an advantage to add rule-based analysis. Currently, it uses only static and AI. We need to be able to analyze archive files."
Imperva DDoS is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Fortinet FortiSandbox.
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