We performed a comparison between Imperva SecureSphere Database Security and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Imperva, Oracle and others in Database Security."It has a lot of different components that cover the needs of our customers."
"The technical support for Imperva is super, super, super."
"There are three major main use cases of this solution. The first one is to fulfill compliance regulations. Customers—especially the banks, health sector, and manufacturing—need to comply with the regulations in different countries. They have to fulfill compliance regulations around the privacy of data. In order to fulfill those requirements, they're using Imperva. It helps them to fulfill these requirements, and they are not fined by the regulators. That is the first use case why people buy Imperva."
"They have very good documentation and knowledgebase resources that add to the depth of their support."
"The integration is great."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic reports on new databases, which gives us up-to-date inventory management."
"Currently, we have audit features for auditing databases, for example, granular auditing, which we really enjoy. We've been using it to check what users do."
"It has a user-friendly interface. It is a stable and scalable product."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"The product offers high availability."
"his solution allows me to secure applications, by blocking suspicious traffic based on the signature that has been enabled for that particular application."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"The integrated application protection provided by Alteon is very good. It really helps to avoid false positives in some cases. It provides important granularity to avoid a situation in which security or cybersecurity scenarios escape us."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"Sometimes the reports are cumbersome, and you have to drill down to get more information."
"The solution needs local support."
"The firewall features are not very strong and should be improved."
"Improvements can be made in data enrichment and enhancing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for a better user experience."
"Performance can be slow under heavy loads, but this should be adjusted by scaling."
"The updates could be better."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"I have worked with IBM before, and I prefer its ease of deployment and management. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security has tricky deployment, whereas IBM's deployment is straightforward because of the UI."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"I would like to see the loading documentation improved."
"The service could be improved by better customer support."
"The solution could be more open to additional third-party add-ons being integrated into it."
"Load balancing needs improvement. It needs better integration. I heard f5 works as a DNS operator which is not available in this solution. It would be better if that was implemented."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
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Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 33 reviews. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security writes "The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect and jSonar, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy.
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