Imperva Application Security Platform Reviews

Data masking is the most valuable feature of this solution. 

Most of the clients are new to this solution and don't have an in-depth knowledge of the solution. It's not so well-known in Ethiopia. Imperva has only been around for a year. 

Licensing should be improved. Most of the clients aren't happy. It's expensive. 

Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved. Also, it should have a privileged account option. In the solution, if you put it there, that would be a very nice feature so that the clients could get all those solutions in one box. It will be easier for support and for clients. 

It's a relatively new product but from the information I got from the Bank of Ethiopia, the stability is okay. They are getting what they are expecting from the product.

Scalability is good especially compared to IBM. It's not so easy to integrate with another solution from another vendor. 

The initial setup was complex. 

The company has to deeply work on it. Also, with regard to support for the distributor, distributors have a big problem. We got the wrong consigning. It was kept for more than three months in a customs warehouse because of the issue of the problems on the distributor side. That is a big problem.

I would rate it an eight out of ten. Imperva is good because it doesn't also only monitor but it also does acquisition.

We mainly use this solution as a web application firewall. We have CMS systems in our portfolio, which our customers use, and the full information portraits are running on our infrastructure and in our CMS product. We, therefore, use this solution mainly for protection and to improve performance.

I found that it is very easy to set everything up. I like the user-friendly interface.

I think the pricing needs some tweaks. 

Imperva Incapsula is a very stable solution.

We use this solution as a crowd solution, a software service so we don't have any issues regarding its performance or scalability. Our IT administrators use Incapsula to maintain the solution because they have knowledge about how this protection works.

I am satisfied with the customer service. The few times that we had issues, they technical support team was able to solve our issues. 

The initial setup was very easy and straightforward. Our customers need good protection so we do the installation for them to protect our sites. 

We are resellers and in addition to supplying the product, we also offer support. 

We compared this with other solutions like Akamai, but it couldn't deliver the same as Imperva Incapsula. We don't use specific application tweaks. We only use basic mechanisms of cashing and six years ago, when we were looking for a solution, there was no solution like this one out there. Incapsula does what we need it to do, and we like the easy installation process. We think still that Incapsula is the best.

Because we are resellers, we prefer that our customers use it. But even if I wasn't a reseller, I would still recommend it. I love the solution's capabilities and the ease of the installation. 

In the future, I would like to see better pricing. E.x. the additional bandwidth packages are higher than our needs so we end up paying for data that we don't use. I want them to provide me with the particular quantity of megabytes I need. I don't want to pay extra money for megabytes that I will not use in the future.

I rate this program nine out of ten.

Data marking is the solution's most valuable feature.

The firewall aspect of the solution needs improvement.

The GUI is not as intuitive enough. It should be more user-friendly, especially for end-users. 

The initial setup could be simplified. Every time you have to install the solution you have to get in touch with support or somebody that can to do that for you. 

The core functionality of the solution has been met. We find it stable enough.

The solution is very scalable. It is one of the most important features. You can also expand resources and features as well.

Customers actually require a lot of support. They want an easier channel that can provide support. The solution should offer a monthly check-in with clients. Other solutions offer this, and it's helpful for the clients, just to make sure everything is running okay.

In general, however, technical support has been good.

The initial setup required a lot of help. It took a month or two to deploy so it wasn't exactly straightforward. However, it was not as difficult as other solutions either.

I handle the on-premises deployment model. We have the latest version of the solution. We also sell the product.

I would rate the solution nine out of ten.

The solution increases the amount of protection for a client's products and solutions in their country.

They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy. 

It also has the ability to integrate with other firewalls. That's really important today. Most end-users are looking for something that can integrate with other solutions and with APIs. They're looking for solutions that have an open API. 

The solution needs to ensure they are compliant and can show the customer in a visual way, like a ticked box, that they are protected. They need to ensure their solution is showcasing if their system is getting attacked so clients know if or when they are under attack.

Clients also often complain about the cost of the solution. They should consider adjusting their pricing models.

We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local.

In the next version, they could include more products or more solutions in this solution that you can add on. They need to build more features that they can add so they can help the customers who don't have a particular solution in hand. Most of the end-users are looking for an easy way to manage all of their solutions. Today we're selling a lot of smaller solutions, and they need to have a lot of different management solutions that we can offer to clients. 

The solution is really stable. It's good. It's a product that I can stand by and recommend because I know it's going to work for the customer.

The scalability is good, especially when you sell a solution that's in the cloud. That's easier to scale; you can just upgrade it. 

We don't directly deal with technical support, but I've never heard of any problems or complaints from clients.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We deploy the solution for our client. Sometimes Imperva also assists.

The licensing depends on the client. Usually, it's yearly, but we do offer monthly financing.

The only thing I hear complaints about is that in some cases clients want to be able to scale down. They don't want to buy everything. That could be, in Sweden anyway, a big problem, because they need to buy more licenses than they will use. In some cases, some of the resellers would like if it was possible to scale down, to have smaller option. However, they don't have that.

I'm a distributor for this product.

With the ease of implementation, I think is a good product. A lot of the other products need a lot of professional services to make it work. With this solution, it's very, very easy to implement, which is a strong selling point.

They also have a good range of products that they sell.

I would rate the solution seven out of ten. It's more than one issue that has me rating it at seven. It's quite a big solution, so it's hard to get a smaller company to buy it. They don't have people in Sweden either. That's really important for us, because it's harder for Swedish companies to be serious about the product when there's a lot of other vendors that have local people, and that's preferred by clients.

The primary use is the protection of our environment and client environments from intrusion and malicious attacks.

The product improves our organization by defending infrastructures from malicious behaviors. It also allows us to provide a reliable product to our clients who need a similar solution.

The most valuable features for our organization are auditing capabilities and compliances. The product meets the needs of our business model and we can see the health of the architecture at a glance. There are some instances where a client needs to meet with compliances in their industry, and this product is capable of meeting those needs.

One thing that they really could improve on is the depth of the analytics. The company needs to think more about the risk and analytic side of the application to supply the user with more information to evaluate and use in resolving issues. It is good to be able to depend on the product to provide a reliable solution, but it is better to take steps to resolve issues overall. This means giving information to the user that will help them identify exactly what the issues are. Risk analytics need to improve and this can be done easily.

This is a very stable product. Our clients have never complained about downtime or issues with functionality.

The product is easily scalable. We currently work with five to six customers who are on this solution. They are organizations of mixed size from small to enterprise. There is no problem adjusting the scale up or down to meet their needs and budget.

We have not needed to have much interaction with the support teams but when we do they address the problem quickly and with a high level of accuracy. The support, in my opinion, is very good.

Deployment is always straightforward. You just follow the instructions. With our experience, the product takes very little time to install and configure.

As we are a partner and a reseller, we are familiar with the product we do the installations for clients ourselves. We rarely have any issues with the installations.

On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate the Incapsula platform as somewhere between an eight to nine. The obvious fault is the lack of better reporting. However, it is a good, functional product and we recommend it to clients who will not have to do very much to maintain the product.

The solution has good DDoS protection, and some good common features, such as no attack surfaces, parameter sanitization, and attack analytics.

The dashboard of the solution is complex. It is complex in the sense that there are too many options. There are two types of Incapsula dashboards. One is the on-prem version and one is cloud-based. Cloud-based is okay. The on-prem one needs some work.

The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet.

The solution is stable.

Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go. We deal mostly with enterprise-level clients.

The company has really improved its technical support over the past year. Before that, I wouldn't rate them as very good, but they are much better now.

The difficulty of the initial setup depends on the customer. If it's a complex environment that they're processing, and/or if there's a downtime period, it may take more or less time. It depends on the number of applications that we have to integrate as well. 

We are Imperva partners, so we work with clients that use different deployment models, including on-premises and cloud.

I'd recommend to those considering implementation to look at your organization's requirements and then compare your options.

I would rate the solution 7.5 or eight out of ten.

This is one of the solutions that we provide to our customers.

We use this solution for application-level security, above layer four protection where the firewall cannot reach.

I have worked with both on-premises and cloud deployments.

The most valuable feature is the out-of-the-box detection engine. It has the ability to detect some of these things without being configured. There are some features that are configured by default, so even without doing much, it can still provide a level of protection.

The visibility provided by this solution can be improved. I often tell my customers that "You can't fight what you can't see". I can recall a time when I did a presentation after a deployment, and it prompted them to put the solution into enforcement mode immediately. Normally, we wait one week with the solution in monitoring mode. However, once they saw the types of vulnerabilities they had, they wanted to take action right away. It gave them a great deal of knowledge, and knowing that they are protected from these types of attacks has boosted their confidence.

This solution has a lot of features, and some of the students were confused when I was discussing them. 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. If somebody has installed the product several times but is doing the same thing incorrectly, then they get experienced in doing the wrong thing. You should be able to specify which assets you need to be protected, and the solution will tell you the minimum in terms of features that need to be turned on. If you need more advanced protection then the others will become relevant.

Imperva partner training is something that I would be interested in if it ever came my way. There should be partner-specific webinars, meetings, and other training provided to us,

So far, I don't think that we've had any issues with this solution in terms of stability. People discussing this solution have given the same remark.

This solution is used on almost a daily basis.

Scalability of this solution is based on the design. If you get your design right, then you shouldn't have a problem with the scalability.

While we were installing this solution, we had contact with technical support and they were good. I have referenced information that is on their site and it is helpful, as well.

During the initial installation, there was a warning that was not part of the known CVEs. When I checked with support, they told me that this type of problem is blocked out-of-the-box. However, if I wanted to be really sure, they showed me how to create a custom policy, or custom rule, to specifically deal with it.

I have used other solutions, but I usually follow the Gartner reports and their suggestions. My previous solution had not been doing too well.

Also, as I became more familiar with this solution, it became easier for me to identify issues. I had also read research on Imperva blocking denial-of-service attacks, and I like practical evidence of issues such as this. By reading these articles, and about other people's experiences, it is like seeing it for myself. With other solutions, you are not privy to such visibility.

Complexity and cost are two important factors when it came to choosing this solution.

Unless the client has as serious issues and does not want Imperva, this is my first choice.

The initial setup of this solution was not too straightforward. We did have to contact Imperva during the deployment. The length of time for deployment depends on the experience of the people performing the installation, as well as the environment.

My team and I performed the implementation of this solution. To make sure that we were on track, we contacted Imperva support for some clarification. Most of the things that we do, we follow best practices.

Everybody complains about the price of this solution. 

This is a security device, and it is used almost every day. It is not just used when there is an issue. Based on what the dashboard or the reports say, you can change policies to meet your security requirements or business needs.

Based on my experience, and what I know this product can do, I would never recommend another solution. I advise most of my customers to go for this.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We are a reseller and integration partner, and we have customers who are using this solution in on-premises deployments.

This solution has helped in securing our clients' assets, which is key. It mitigates all of the availabilities of risks around web applications.

The most valuable feature of this solution is web application security.

This is a user-friendly solution.

This solution has good performance ratings.

I would like to see more support available for this product online. Some customers find this to be a real limitation.

The virtual processing could be improved.

Their portal is very limited and needs improvement.

This is a very stable solution.

The solution is very scalable, but of course, the scalability comes with a cost.

I think that technical support needs to be improved by making it more localized, or regionalized. Our support is currently coming from the US, and it is not very good. They need to take care of their global customers.

We previously used Fortinet, but this solution has better performance ratings.

I don't want to say that the initial setup is straightforward, but it is manageable. It requires a bit of technical knowledge.

This is a solution that I highly recommend.

The biggest lesson that I have learned from this solution is that Imperva is not a one-house solution. They create a specialized solution, and that comes with a lot of value.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.