Imperva Web Application Firewall vs Reblaze comparison

Imperva and Reblaze - part of Link11 are both solutions in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category. Imperva is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.9, while Reblaze - part of Link11 is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.5. Additionally, 97% of Imperva users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Reblaze - part of Link11 users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 31, 2025

Imperva Web Application Firewall and Reblaze compete in web application protection. Imperva seems to have the upper hand with its advanced threat intelligence and flexible policy configuration, whereas Reblaze distinguishes itself through ease of use and dynamic traffic management.

Features: Imperva shines with advanced bot protection, API security, and robust threat intelligence. Its policy configuration offers flexibility, appealing to enterprises needing customized security setups. Reblaze emphasizes real-time monitoring and robust DDoS protection, alongside its user-friendly interface, which is ideal for enterprises with less security expertise.

Room for Improvement: Imperva's interface complexity and additional services requirement for URL filtering can hinder ease of use, coupled with high licensing costs. Policy setup challenges also persist. Reblaze could benefit from enhanced bot management and more granular WAF features, along with a simplified interface and more competitive pricing.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Imperva offers diverse deployment options across on-premises, public, and hybrid clouds to meet various enterprise needs. While proactive support is a plus, response times can sometimes lag. Reblaze focuses on cloud deployment for simplicity, with comprehensive customer support that is personalized yet may experience similar response delays.

Pricing and ROI: Imperva is recognized as a costlier solution with a complex pricing model but delivers strong ROI, particularly against DDoS threats. Reblaze, although also expensive, provides straightforward bundled pricing that appeals to customers looking for cost predictability. Both products' pricing reflects their robust security offerings.

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Cloudflare

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Spencer Malmad

Owner at Tech Exchange

It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes

Cloudflare is highly scalable. Cloudflare is a system with a web portal that the end users like me see. It's a console where we can adjust the DNS, caching, and security features all in that console. Cloudflare owns thousands of servers across the world that cache the data. It's a powerful solution. When clients sign up for Cloudflare, they're getting this monster content delivery network, security, and a web application firewall in one. It's all rolled into one, and it's massive. Unless you have your website hosted on a massive hosting provider, there's no way that you can deliver the amount of data that Cloudflare can provide to the end users. If you have static content, there's no way that you can ever match what Cloudflare can do. Obviously, there are competitors to Cloudflare that do the same, but I'm saying other types of solutions. Let's say you go with F5. Great, that's on-prem. That's in your colo. You can't deliver as much data to the internet as you can with a CDN. You don't have to spend $20,000 on a net scaler, F5, or whatever Cisco's selling now. You don't have to buy that. You pay them $50 a month or $150 a month. It's totally worth it because even in five years, you'll never get the performance value, not just the actual ROI. You have to consider how much throughput you can get with Cloudflare.

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Abdullah Jin

Principal Cyber Prevent and Defense Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Offers bot protection and DDoS Protection and protects public-facing portals

Support is one thing I wish Imperva could improve. They follow the phone model and keep rotating you from one customer service person to another. The layer one support isn't very clear about the workings of the product. My feedback is primarily about Imperva Cloud, not on-premise. On-premise is a whole new story. Support is the issue for Imperva Cloud. It's also a bit pricey. It's a premium service and very expensive. The licensing model is not very straightforward. Every feature is priced separately, and to enjoy maximum protection, you'll have to spend a lot of money. The licensing model is a bit complex, and each feature is very pricey. For example, API security and web application protection are two separate license packages.

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YacovHabusha

Network and Security Department Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Allowed us to replace our reverse proxy, load-balancing, and WAF products with one platform

Perhaps the automatic reporting could be better. I would like to have seen more automated reports. Maybe it has been improved in the last year and I'm just not aware of it. But from a managerial point of view, you want a summary report, a weekly report: How many attacks were blocked? How much bandwidth was saved due to the caching mechanism? What were the top-ten attacks that were tested on the network, etc? I could most likely have found all that data if I logged in to the system and ran different reports. It would be very helpful to get a management report on a weekly basis.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cloudflare consolidates various capabilities into one product, streamlining processes."

"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."

"Centralized, full-featured DNS."

"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."

"The technical support is good."

"New and innovative way to protect the client's data."

"The solution is very good at mitigating threats."

"The overall experience with Cloudflare is positive, with a rating of eight out of ten."

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"The valuable features of Imperva WAF include its effective security breach prevention through automatically updating rules."

"The solution is scalable."

"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 most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are performance and flexibility. We can extend or customize the box itself."

"Imperva has a complete picture of how the applications are utilizing it. It is handy. DDoS is good. It has an internally managed database. It is very easy to integrate. We have integrated it with SIEM services."

"Very scalable and very stable firewall for web applications, with a good interface in its cloud version. Mitigation is its most valuable feature. The technical support for this product is also good."

"Imperva monitors all traffic, even customer access, to the web application. Then, Imperva uses features like signatures to identify attacks like cross-site scripting or SQL injection."

"It has threat intelligence and we are using Incapsula. With threat intelligence, we can separate HTTP and HTTPS traffic. We can use Incapsula to send all the threat intelligence to the WAF."

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"The real-time monitoring and reporting are very good. There are information updates in their portal every two minutes. They also have the ability to spill it into Sumo Logic, for example. It's very easy to use."

"I very much like the elastic search and reports, allowing us to have a 360-degree view of the customer's activities and enabling us to track down any suspicious bots."

"It is a highly resilient product that can handle significantly larger workloads and high volumes of traffic with ease."

"The feature I find most valuable is the user-friendly dashboard. It is easy to understand how everything works and it allows you to make decisions quickly and efficiently."

"Provides mobile app security."

"We like the website protection. It's really good. The dashboard is really simple to use."

"The best thing about Reblaze, for us, is that it has been a game changer because previously, we were using Google's Web Application Firewall, but it wasn't up to the mark."

"The main feature is using the rules and being able to see the traffic. It helps us find malicious traffic."

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Cons

"We are a product integrator and reseller, and we would like to have a better partner relationship, similar to a channel sales relationship. Sometimes we are on our own or get diverted by Cloudflare because they have direct sales, which competes with us and makes it difficult to build a relationship with this company since we want to be an MSP or a managed service provider for the solution."

"It would be beneficial for us if Cloudflare could offer a scrubbing solution. This would involve taking a snapshot of my website and keeping it live during a DDoS attack, ensuring uninterrupted service for our users. DDoS attacks are typically short in duration, and having Cloudflare maintain the site's availability from its secure network would enhance the overall user experience. I would appreciate it if Cloudflare could consider implementing this feature. Many organizations already utilize similar capabilities in their CDN platforms, where a static snapshot of the web page is displayed during DDoS attacks. In terms of features, Cloudflare needs to enhance its resilience and stay more focused on adopting new technologies. For instance, solutions like F5 XC Box, Access Solution, and Distributed Cloud Solution have impressive features, and Cloudflare should strive to match and exceed those capabilities. There's a need for improvement in areas like AI-based DDoS attacks and Layer 7 WAF features. Cloudflare should prioritize enhancements in areas such as behavioral DDoS and protection against SQL injection attacks, considering the prevalent trend of public exposure to the internet for business reasons. Overall, Cloudflare needs to invest more in advancing its feature set."

"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."

"There are some issues with the CDN services."

"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."

"For large enterprises, the pricing is okay. However, the enterprise price for small projects is a bit high. A mid-tier pricing option would be beneficial."

"Technical support is not well developed. While there are good engineers, Cloudflare does not offer hands-on technical support to fix customer problems but rather a self-service model."

"Cloudflare's free plan is limited to 5,000 records for their free plan. They should increase that. For example, if I create a domain called abc.com and a subdomain called a.abc.com, my record count will be two. I can make a maximum of 5,000 subdomains. However, if we use our own DNS hosted on another provider, there is no limit. Their free plan also lacks name server customization."

More Cloudflare cons

"Sometimes our web application firewall will slow down."

"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."

"The user interface could be better."

"The tool's UI is complicated. It would be best to have a more accessible UI dashboard to make the job easier."

"The signature updates could be faster. Sometimes we have to upload signatures to the Imperva portal for checking and analysis before we can use them."

"Imperva Web Application Firewall could improve the API integration. It was complex for us. Additionally, The onboarding could be better."

"I am looking for more data enrichment. We should have the ability to add our own custom data to the system, to the live traffic."

"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."

More Imperva Web Application Firewall cons

"It would be beneficial if it had a workflow or a feature that could fine-tune settings based on high-level requirements."

"We have multiple products behind different instances of Reblaze. We have one instance for staging and then we have a production instance for multiple products. One of the things that we have requested is a unified view panel, so that we can see each of the instances in a unified view. That way, we won't have to go bouncing from instance to instance."

"The WAF features are not as granular as we would expect from a WAF system. There should be more granularity and in-depth rules, out-of-the-box."

"There is room for improvement in helping us understanding session management... We want Reblaze to catch and identify everything. We want to see the various devices doing one activity and to see, in a timeline, what's happened. We would like to see a more human-readable display to understand what's happening in the web app."

"Up to now the only cons I could find is sometimes getting change management back on track, because it's a company that evolves, and sometimes I don't have the same needs that they have. But besides that, up until now, I am really pleased with their service and I've also recommended them to some of my clients."

"The next release should have next-generation automation."

"Some of the settings on the dashboard are confusing."

"I would like to have seen more automated reports. Maybe it has been improved in the last year and I'm just not aware of it. But from a managerial point of view, you want a summary report, a weekly report: How many attacks were blocked? How much bandwidth was saved due to the caching mechanism? What were the top-ten attacks that were tested on the network, etc? I could most likely have found all that data if I logged in to the system and ran different reports. It would be very helpful to get a management report on a weekly basis."

More Reblaze cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"So far I use free tier and happy with it. You can subscribe to business package if needed."

"A free version of the solution is available."

"We don't have any issues with the price."

"It's a premium model. You can start at zero and work your way up to the enterprise model, which has a very high pricing level."

"The cost primarily depends on the size of the organization."

"There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."

"The price is reasonable."

"That is one of the great features. I was able to access the majority of the features and services for free."

More Cloudflare pricing and cost advice

"The pricing is somewhat expensive. It is actually a huge investment when compared to other countries."

"It's an excellent product, but it can be very costly."

"It is very costly, but the return on investment is very high. Its cost was around $70,000, and we got it back in just six months."

"There is a license for this solution and we purchase the license annually with no additional fees."

"The price is high compared to other solutions like FortiWeb."

"It is a very affordable solution."

"Imperva’s pricing is a bit higher in the market since it offers a full-blown WAF."

"The tool is expensive."

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"We found the cost to be a bit on the higher side, starting at approximately three to four thousand dollars for a small configuration."

"I believe that for the six instances we have right now, it's costing us $16,000 per month."

"On a monthly basis we pay $750."

"There is still some room for improvement when it comes to bot management from Reblaze because they are relatively new compared to other vendors in the town."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

17%

Computer Software Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

13%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

17%

Educational Organization

11%

Media Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

Cloudflare. We are moving from Akamai prolexic to Cloudflare. Cloudflare anycast network outperforms Akamai static GR...

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Which would you choose - Cloudflare DNS or Quad9?

Cloudflare DNS is a very fast, very reliable public DNS resolver. It is an enterprise-grade authoritative DNS service...

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What do you like most about Cloudflare?

Cloudflare offers CDN and DDoS protection. We have the front end, API, and database in how you structure applications.

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

My recommendation is Imperva.

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Is Citrix ADC (formerly Netscaler) the best ADC to use and if not why?

For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you hav...

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DDoS solutions: Any other solutions to consider aside from Radware DDoS Protection Service and F5 Silverline DDoS Protection?

You can have a look to Imperva Cloud WAF, the anti-DDoS mitigation is under 1s and works very well. I observed a lot ...

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What do you like most about Reblaze?

It is a highly resilient product that can handle significantly larger workloads and high volumes of traffic with ease.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Reblaze?

We found the cost to be a bit on the higher side, starting at approximately three to four thousand dollars for a smal...

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What needs improvement with Reblaze?

There is a potential improvement regarding simplifying the complexity of rule creation. It would be beneficial if it ...

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Overview

Cloudflare is a highly-regarded Content Delivery Network (CDN) and a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) protection solution. The robust global connectivity cloud platform that is Cloudflare ensures users are able to connect to the Internet quickly, securely, and reliably. Cloudflare is one of the world's largest networks in the marketplace today. Using Cloudflare, businesses, educational entities, NGOs, vloggers, bloggers, and anyone else with an internet presence can experience more secure, faster websites and applications.

Currently, there are millions of Internet locations on Cloudflare, and the Cloudflare network
continues to grow every day by the thousands. The solution is able to fulfill the requests for
millions of websites seamlessly and serves on average 45 million HTTP requests per second.

Cloudflare has safe, secure data centers in close to 300 cities worldwide to ensure every
client request is filled as quickly as possible. It is Cloudflare’s edge network that makes this
possible by keeping content and other services as close to each client as possible, so the
information requests are always only seconds away.

Many organizations that work in democracy, civil society, human rights, or the arts are able to
access Cloudflare's highest levels of protection for free via Project Galileo. Additionally, official
election websites can be secured from hacking and fraud through Cloudflare’s Project
Athenian, also at no additional cost.

Cloudflare can also help organizations of all sizes develop a robust zero-trust strategy to
ensure the highest levels of productivity and profitability. Employees, stakeholders, and end users have a greater level of satisfaction and overall improved user experience, which can, in
turn, result in higher revenues and overall ROI. Zero-trust and BYOD (bring your own device)
access ensure end users and employees always have the best resources and technology
available to them at all times.

Cloudflare benefits

Cloudflare has many benefits. Some of its most valuable benefits include:

- Faster load times

- Robust DNS security

- Intuitive cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)

- Free universal SSL

- Image enhancement

- Automatic browser caching

- Next-generation cloud load balancer

- Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)

- Rate limiting

- Minification

- Zero-trust capabilities

- Cost-effective

- Reduced carbon footprint

Reviews from real users

“Many websites require an SSL certificate because they sell stuff and want SSL. Cloudflare
comes with an SSL certificate built in. It's automatic. You sign yourself up for Cloudflare, and
an SSL certificate automatically protects your website. If you have a connection between your
website and your host, the server, Cloudflare, and the host, you don't necessarily need a
certificate.” Spencer M., Owner at Tech Exchange

“What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage
applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare
also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering,
so it's a valuable tool.” Daniel P., Network Engineer at Ufinet

“The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very
well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service.” PeerSpot user, Competence Center Manager at a tech services company

Cloudflare

Imperva Web Application Firewall is a versatile solution that protects web applications and databases from various attacks, including DDoS, cross-site scripting, and SQL injection attacks. It offers data security, availability, and access control and can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud.

The solution has good security against web attacks and offers advanced bot protection, API security, and mitigation features. Imperva WAF is easy to configure and deploy; it has good customer service and an excellent user interface.

Imperva

Reblaze provides real-time monitoring, reporting, and botnet protections, enhancing security management with agile customization. Its intuitive dashboard supports efficient decision-making, while flexible rules and geo-blocking ensure security across geographies.

Reblaze is primarily deployed for web application firewall (WAF), DDoS prevention, and bot management, effectively defending against Layer 7 DDoS, phishing, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, and unwanted IP traffic. Supporting both public and private cloud deployments, including Amazon-hosted applications, Reblaze filters malicious activities to safeguard internet businesses. Users appreciate its comprehensive security approach, particularly for mobile app protection through its API and advanced filtering against script injections. Room for improvement includes change management, automation, reporting alerts, session management, and more granular WAF features. Adjustments in pricing and enhancements for bot management and bad IP address databases are sought after.

What are Reblaze's Most Important Features?

Intuitive Dashboard: Facilitates efficient decision-making with customizable settings.
Real-Time Monitoring: Provides active tracking and instant security insights.
WAF with Traffic Analysis: Allows detailed inspection of all incoming traffic.
Swift DDoS Defense: Rapid response against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Flexible Rule Management: Supports extensive customization for specific needs.
Geo-Blocking: Secures resources from threats originating in specific locations.
API Security: Offers robust protection for mobile applications.
Advanced Filtering: Shields against SQL and script injection threats.

What Benefits Should Be Evaluated in Reviews?

Enhanced Security: The ability to detect and neutralize latest attacks.
Efficient Customization: Tailoring security measures to fit organizational requirements.
Real-Time Alerts: Immediate notifications of security events for prompt action.
Cloud Deployment Flexibility: Compatibility with public and private cloud environments.

In finance, Reblaze addresses the stringent demands of data protection. E-commerce platforms benefit from its robust perimeter defenses against typical threats. Healthcare industries utilize its capabilities to secure sensitive patient data, leveraging both real-time monitoring and responsive alert systems to maintain compliance and integrity.

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Sample Customers

Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more.

BlueCross BlueShield, eHarmony, EMF Broadcasting, GE Healthcare, Metro Bank, The Motley Fool, Siemens

eBay, AirAsia, Taboola, Reebonz, IAI, Payoneer, mySupermarket, William Hill, Fanduel

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