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Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF vs Squid Proxy Cache Server comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Imperva Managed Rules on AW...
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Business Rules Management (6th)
Squid Proxy Cache Server
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF and Squid Proxy Cache Server aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF is designed for Business Rules Management and holds a mindshare of 1.6%, up 0.2% compared to last year.
Squid Proxy Cache Server, on the other hand, focuses on Application Infrastructure, holds 0.1% mindshare.
Business Rules Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF1.6%
Pega Platform26.0%
FICO Blaze Advisor24.8%
Other47.599999999999994%
Business Rules Management
Application Infrastructure Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Squid Proxy Cache Server0.1%
NGINX Plus7.9%
Apache Web Server7.0%
Other85.0%
Application Infrastructure
 

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.
Mayashankar Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner For Data Center Operations Dns Cache at Proximus S.A.
Caching and reverse proxy have boosted performance and improved secure web and mail access
I think Squid Proxy Cache Server can be improved by having a nice front-end, one similar to Blue Coat for access management, view management, and direct configuration instead of doing it all through the CLI. It's best to have everything done through the GUI, which is what I think can improve the product. I don't want to implement third-party GUIs on Squid Proxy Cache Server. So that's what would be on my wish list—that Squid Proxy Cache Server by itself provides a GUI, which will give more confidence to users. I haven't actually used AI with Squid Proxy Cache Server, but I think it might be very interesting to have the AI capability built-in. However, I do think we need some GPU or something to boost the performance on Squid Proxy Cache Server as natively running. I think we need to add some GPU cards so that it works more natively with AI. I don't have experience using AI features yet, but I think it would be great if it could do some live scanning of the websites that are getting blocked on a daily basis and perform some sampling analysis. Especially in the case of reverse proxy, if there are any attacks happening, it would be beneficial if it scrapes through its own log files and provides some nice dashboards showing where the attacks are coming from. That would be really great to have as a handy troubleshooting tool. One more feature I would ask for is if AI can provide the best possible configuration and do a review of Squid Proxy Cache Server just to make sure that no other ports or anything by default are missed in configuration. It would also be great if the proxy server acts as a load balancer in a cluster mode that shares the cache, and the configuration is best set.

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Pros

"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 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."
"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."
"The managed rule set proves that modern security does not have to be slow or complicated."
"Automatic updates are the best features Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF offers."
"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 best features Squid Proxy Cache Server offers include its storing mechanism and the ability to handle a wider range of protocols, which significantly reduces latency."
"What I appreciate the most about Squid Proxy Cache Server is that both of its features are very beneficial for any IT company, whether it should be a media company, a finance company, or any other sector."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server is a great solution, and when you have a different network, you can combine different Squid Proxy Cache Server instances to increase the capability to control and increase the access for web content."
"In terms of scraping, Squid Proxy Cache Server has made things easier and more efficient for my organization because it is one of the commonly used open-source proxy servers."
"The overall main benefits I experienced from using Squid Proxy Cache Server are the ability to control employee web browsing."
"The traffic reduction resulting from Squid Proxy Cache Server has improved productivity and brought measurable benefits to the company, as there were savings not only in bandwidth and costs, but also in staff idleness."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server offers flexibility, ease of deployment, and scalability as its best features."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server has positively impacted my organization by reducing the cost of internet providing traffic, speeding up the connection, and speeding up the loading for the developers."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"For improvement, it would be better to have access to deeper configuration levels in Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF."
"The reporting can improve a little bit with Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF."
"I would rate it ten if we had a dashboard or visible interface with Squid Proxy Cache Server."
"In my opinion, Squid Proxy Cache Server can be improved by covering more issues, having more updates, and providing a slightly more updated version of lists and logs and information that we can distribute to other places for a more complete monitoring of it."
"If I had to add more about needed improvements for Squid Proxy Cache Server, a UI built on top of Squid Proxy Cache Server where I can see the logs in real-time would be great, but it is not really a priority for anyone."
"I believe Squid Proxy Cache Server could also do more integrated authentication control, but also control over traffic acceptance, allowing traffic upon filling out a form showing what the need is for accessing that content which does not fall within the company's policies."
"As of right now, Squid Proxy Cache Server does not have this sort of security, so I would like to see better security in Squid Proxy Cache Server."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server can be improved by enhancing the quality of use of web resources."
"The configuration of Squid Proxy Cache Server was somewhat difficult for someone new to the product."
"To improve Squid Proxy Cache Server, I believe more marketing and additional training and certification programs are important."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
30%
University
28%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Construction Company
21%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software 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 Business6
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise11
 

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Squid Proxy Cache Server?
My experience with Squid Proxy Cache Server regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is an open-source product. There is no pricing, setup cost, or licensing cost. You use it and if ...
What needs improvement with Squid Proxy Cache Server?
I cannot think of how Squid Proxy Cache Server can be improved. It has everything built-in, from Active Directory integration to centralized logging. It has been a proxy cache server for so many ye...
What is your primary use case for Squid Proxy Cache Server?
My main use case for Squid Proxy Cache Server is that we have machines behind an internet firewall which do not have access to the internet. The only way these machines can access anything outside,...
 

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