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

 

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Imperva Managed Rules on AW...
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Business Rules Management (6th)
Squid Proxy Cache Server
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.9
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Application Infrastructure (24th)
 

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ZA
Vice President For Civil Engineering Process Of IT at University of Maryland
Managed rules have strengthened API defenses and now automate protection against evolving attacks
Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF can be improved in several ways. First, better rule transparency would be beneficial, with more detailed explanations of why specific requests are blocked and what rules are designed to detect. More granular tuning options to reduce false positives without requiring custom exceptions would be helpful, as well as improved reporting and analytics. A richer dashboard that highlights attack trends, rule effectiveness, and actionable recommendations would enhance the overall experience. It would also be beneficial for Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF to have faster customization workflows, making it easier to test, deploy, and validate rule changes across different environments. Enhanced API-specific protection and visibility, particularly for modern REST and GraphQL APIs, with more detailed insights into API attack patterns and recommendations, would also improve usability. I rated Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF an eight out of ten because it provides strong security value and is reliable in production, but there is still room for improvement in usability and visibility. To rate it nine out of ten, I would like to see more detailed explanations of rule matches and blocking decisions to simplify troubleshooting, more granular policy tuning and exception management to reduce false positives, a richer dashboard, and actionable insights on threats and rule effectiveness.
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 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."
"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."
"Since we started using Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF, the biggest positive impact has been stronger application security with less operational overhead."
"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 addressing trust issues my customer had regarding security configuration for their application."
"Automatic updates are the best features Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF offers."
"Before, we used Blue Coat Proxy, Cyberoam Proxy, Forcepoint, and other solutions, and the reason we switched to Squid Proxy Cache Server is cost, because those professional proxy solutions have huge yearly cost involvement, and currently with Squid Proxy Cache Server, we are using it at no cost."
"The overall main benefits I experienced from using Squid Proxy Cache Server are the ability to control employee web browsing."
"The best features that Squid Proxy Cache Server offers include a lot of caching functionality, which is the best part, and then it is the security."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server positively impacts my organization because it is a software that has the ability to organize internet connections, sort them, and generate reports."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server has positively impacted my organization because I can filter internet access, which protects my company from users accessing malicious sites."
"I will definitely encourage others to maintain and implement Squid Proxy Cache Server in their infrastructure because I think your team is really working hard to improve it."
"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."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server positively impacts my organization because I can filter the internet content that users can access."
 

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."
"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."
"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."
"I rated Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF an eight out of ten because it provides strong security value and is reliable in production, but there is still room for improvement in usability and visibility."
"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."
"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."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server can be improved with maintenance packages, updates, and everything related to security."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server can be improved by enhancing the quality of use of web resources."
"To improve Squid Proxy Cache Server, I believe more marketing and additional training and certification programs are important."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server is not stable."
"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."
"I believe that Squid Proxy Cache Server could see improvements with updates to incorporate the latest kernel."
"Squid Proxy Cache Server could be improved by covering more aspects, having more updates, and providing a more up-to-date version of lists and logs that I can distribute to other places, thereby making its monitoring more complete."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
33%
University
30%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Outsourcing Company
5%
Construction Company
24%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
7%
 

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF?
For improvement, it would be better to have access to deeper configuration levels in Imperva Managed Rules on AWS WAF. For example, if my application is using Nginx or a certain middle-level applic...
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 using Layer 7 particular OWASP 10 and SP10 based security rules. I had to enable the Layer 7-based attacks by setting up bots and related co...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Squid Proxy Cache Server?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing involves using an open-source Squid Proxy product, so the costs are low because it is open-source software.
What needs improvement with Squid Proxy Cache Server?
I believe that Squid Proxy Cache Server could see improvements with updates to incorporate the latest kernel. Nowadays, there are many competitors available, but I want to emphasize that Squid Prox...
What is your primary use case for Squid Proxy Cache Server?
My main use case for Squid Proxy Cache Server is that it's an open source application implementation, with a frontend being an Apache server and a backend using MySQL databases. Squid Proxy Cache S...
 

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