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Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF vs Pega Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Imperva Managed Rules on AW...
Ranking in Business Rules Management
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Pega Platform
Ranking in Business Rules Management
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
87
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (3rd), Process Automation (5th), Rapid Application Development Software (13th), Low-Code Development Platforms (8th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (12th), AI Software Development (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Business Rules Management category, the mindshare of Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF is 1.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pega Platform is 25.4%, down from 29.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Business Rules Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pega Platform25.4%
Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF1.7%
Other72.9%
Business Rules Management
 

Featured Reviews

BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Edge protection has reduced junk traffic and now safeguards APIs with automated threat intelligence
The best feature I would say is the compliance. It satisfies enterprise audit criteria for web application profiling that is required by PCI DSS and HIPAA. Also, it aligns fully with my security compliance matrices, the OWASP Top 10 alignment, and standard core rules to defend against injection attacks, cross-site scripting, and path traversal. These are the major features. The managed rule set proves that modern security does not have to be slow or complicated. It turns threat intelligence into a utility function that I can enable with a few clicks. It has eliminated the heavy operational burden of threat research. Instead of my internal security engineers spending hours tracking new malicious IPs or writing custom regex signatures to deal with emerging exploits, Imperva automatically updates the rule set in the background.
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Quality Assurance Team Lead at HCLSoftware
Process automation has improved case handling and now saves half of our daily manual work
Pega Platform has improved my business process overall. The manager confirmed that manual statuses are automated and manual evaluations are automated. For eight hours of work, it automates four hours of work. Pega Platform has features for operational efficiency that are significant. It provides a business security texture app, which is a valuable feature, and it also offers report definitions such as bar charts, pie charts, and operational help. In terms of management capabilities, Pega Platform provides dashboards and tools that help with management and categories. Pega Platform has good integration features, as integration can be done in many ways, and even for legacy systems, it is a strong feature. I did not encounter any problems with legacy systems. Pega Platform has good scalability. It is not difficult to scale up or down if there is a need.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The managed rule set proves that modern security does not have to be slow or complicated."
"Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF offers continuous threat intelligence updates as the best feature, as they have a rapid response to newly discovered attack techniques and base their detection logic on real-world threat data with easy integration with AWS."
"Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF has impacted my organization positively to a very good extent, as along with the default AWS WAF rules, Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF is giving more edge on layer seven security for protecting the applications at the organization, making them good-to-go rules."
"Automatic updates are the best features Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF offers."
"Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF has positively impacted our organization because we were able to protect our websites and rectify the open attack and abuse attack that was occurring."
"Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to reduce attacks."
"Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF has positively impacted my organization by addressing trust issues my customer had regarding security configuration for their application."
"The robotic process automation has increased the confidence of business users."
"Pega is an Intelligent Automation Platform that has evolved from a BPM perspective, allowing teams using this solution to address complexities without having deep knowledge in a specific development area."
"It's been quite good and we've been quite satisfied with it."
"Pega BPM's most valuable features are case management, integration, the convenience of using REST APIs, and the ease of changing things at the UI level."
"Pega has got very good features and tools, and generally, whatever a customer demands, we are able to meet that demand."
"This solution is useful for business process management if you have any banking solutions or need to manage a process."
"The most valuable features are case management and integration services."
"The stability has been good. We haven't had any issues."
 

Cons

"Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF could improve by adding more parameters. There are other add-on features that come with it, such as advanced bot protection, because the normal feature does not provide good fingerprinting for bots."
"Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF can usually have false positives sometimes, blocking legitimate traffic and struggling with complex search queries, particularly with large JSON requests and certain GraphQL requests, which makes us initially deploy the rules in monitoring mode before switching to blocking mode to ensure all our use cases are supported."
"The reporting can improve a little bit with Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF."
"Sometimes the rules act as a black box with Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF because you cannot see the underlying rule logic or regular expressions, which can be challenging when troubleshooting false positives on complex API payloads."
"Other issues include that the marketplace sellers do not allow me to modify individual parameters inside the vendor's compiled rule set, meaning any false positive must be handled by a custom override rule."
"For improvement, it would be better to have access to deeper configuration levels in Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF."
"Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF keeps updating its rule sets, but the company could increase the number of rules on a yearly basis and incorporate more rules aligned with artificial intelligence security."
"High licensing costs: Pega is often seen as expensive, especially for small and mid-sized enterprises."
"There are several areas for improvement with this product. The performance of the application is very slow, the UI needs improvement, and the architecture needs to be simplified."
"The licensing cost is very high."
"I believe they simplify the application development. It is still complex. The learning is not easy, it takes time compared to other products on the market."
"If it could also be integrated with robotics, it could help with a lot of things, even if we don't have APIs, we could still talk to other applications. If it could invoke a bot, for example."
"To learn Pega, you need to be a partner. If someone just wants to learn Pega for the sake of learning, they won't be able to do so as they don't give access to that."
"One of the areas of this solution that could be improved would be to advance the low code features of the application itself. We would also like to use the same platform to build any application, even if it is not necessarily defined as a functionality needed by a BPM."
"Pricing is a little on the high side. One of the challenges where a certain lower level of cases was unable to justify the cost."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Licensing varies across geographical regions for us."
"Pega BPM is expensive because it's a leading product, but it also delivers a good return on investment (ROI)."
"The price is a bit expensive."
"The licensing fees are based on the number of users."
"Its pricing is on the higher side, but they have come up with different plans and different small products that can be used by smaller organizations that don't have that much money to spend. They have different pricing packages depending on the number of users or depending upon the number of cases created in the production or live environment."
"May be somewhat more expensive than other solutions initially, but should have enhanced return on investment."
"They're very cagey in giving out prices, and it is very difficult to find out the real price any organization is going to get. It is almost never their list price, if you can find it, and there are a lot of factors that go into the whole pricing."
"The licensing model for Pega BPM needs to be improved."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
29%
University
28%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise70
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF?
The settings available with Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF are fine and I find it good. The reporting can improve a little bit with Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF.
What is your primary use case for Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF?
My main use case for Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF is to control the website under the WAF. A specific example of how I use Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF to control my website is that we brou...
Is Pega BPM easy to work with and can beginners utilize this software?
You do need some preparation to be able to use all functions of Pega BPM. However, all users of this platform are in luck as it comes with good documentation and you can learn pretty much everythin...
Have you encountered any issues while using Pega BPM and were you assisted by the company?
My company has been using this tool for years and the only issue we have had, if you can call it that, was while setting it up. When we were setting it up initially, we had some drawbacks and could...
When you consider the features and benefits of Pega BPM, would you say this product is fairly priced?
Pega BPM can be considered overpriced for some; it all depends on the size of your company and the requirements of your customers. Sure, there are products out there that do the things that Pega B...
 

Also Known As

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Pega BPM, Pegasystems, SmartBPM, PegaRULES
 

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Sample Customers

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The State of Maine, ANZ, Coca-Cola, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), ME, New South Wales, OptumRx, Texas Department of Transportation, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement
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