We performed a comparison between Imperva Web Application Firewall and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features I have found most valuable with Imperva Web Application Firewall are account takeover protection, advanced bot protection, and API security."
"The solution is cloud-based and offers us good uptime. It has combined web and API security. Therefore, with one license, you access both application security and also API security."
"The dynamic profiling of websites is the solution's most valuable feature. The security is also good."
"The most valuable feature of Imperva, in addition to its strong knowledge base, is its effective protection for web applications."
"The solution integrates seamlessly with other tools and has a good alert mechanism."
"The most valuable features of Imperva Web Application Firewall are the monitoring of databases and the dashboards are easy to understand."
"There are some features that are configured by default, so even without doing much, it can still provide a level of protection."
"The tool's profiling feature maps all the web application directories and related components on the profile directory. It has improved the security of my client's website applications."
"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 device blocks threats and allows legitimate users to work correctly."
"The product offers high availability."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"I like the ADC feature and the global certificate feature."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"I am finding SSL-TLS acceleration the most valuable function, with certificate management. It is easy to generate certificates and assign them to services"
"I like the web GUI. It's very intuitive and easy to use."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is a good system, but we found that the visibility of the diverse-path server, e.g. where the traffic is coming from, the different IPs, etc., needs improvement."
"They recently separated the WAF and the DAM management gateways in order for each of these to be managed from different areas, so I believe it now requires additional investments for what was previously a single complete solution."
"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."
"It would be helpful to have a "recommended deployment", or even a list of basic features that should either be used or turned on by default."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall can improve by adding more features to the dashboard. increasing the visibility of the real-time events, besides configuring the administration itself."
"I'd like the option to pick your bot protection."
"The UI interface needs improvement."
"I would like to improve the tool's turnaround time in terms of support."
"Support is very important because if we get good support, we'll be able to sell and supply more numbers."
"Performance could be improved."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"We recently had a problem with the tables Obsolete ARP which was observed by the support team. It would be good to diagnose and solve this problem with a patch since it is not documented that it will be solved in later updates."
"The GUI needs to be improved. Right now, the solution isn't so user-friendly."
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Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 44 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". 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 Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Fastly, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and AWS WAF. See our Imperva Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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