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Imperva DDoS pros and cons

Vendor: Imperva

4.3 out of 5

78 reviews
94% willing to recommend

1,967 followers

Pros & Cons summary

Imperva DDoS offers robust protection against DDoS attacks and effective threat mitigation, including SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting defenses. IncapRules enhances security against Layer 7 attacks. Users praise its easy setup and responsive technical support. However, it lacks efficient third-party integration and suitable log management. High costs and insufficient support documentation can be drawbacks, and adaptability to new attacks requires improvement, affecting resilience and performance consistency.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Imperva DDoS provides effective DDoS and bot protection, ensuring the availability of websites and services.

It includes valuable features such as real-time monitoring and tracking of traffic details for enhanced security management.

The cloud-based setup and configuration are straightforward and quick, with no need for in-house appliances.

Imperva DDoS integrates well with various systems, offering a reliable defense against a variety of online threats.

Technical support from Imperva DDoS is highly rated for its helpfulness and quick response times.

CONS

Imperva DDoS integration with third-party tools and BI tools is limited, requiring cumbersome data export and import processes.

There is a need for customizable policy creation and improved policy scope, including support for vulnerability management similar to on-premise solutions.

Imperva DDoS lacks sufficient points of presence in Africa, and local hiring, particularly in Sweden, is necessary for better customer support.

The first level of support is weak and there are compliance challenges when aligning with client procedures, causing conflicts between on-premise and cloud versions.

Pricing is high and improvements in cost reduction are necessary, as the expense is significant for clients.

Imperva DDoS Pros review quotes

reviewer1247523

Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Jun 11, 2025

The most valuable feature of Imperva DDoS is to make our website available for our customers' requests 24 hours a day.

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reviewer1358583

Application Security Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 13, 2020

There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud.

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OLUWASEGUN ADERIBIGBE

Manager - IT Security at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 3, 2020

It is an effective threat mitigation tool.

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TF

CTO at Klaatu IT Security Ltd

Jul 17, 2022

The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition.

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EW

CDN & Cybersecurity Engineer - Web performance & security at CDN Tech / Ecritel

Dec 23, 2020

Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution.

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System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Feb 12, 2018

On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user.

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Joakim Sörqvist

Senior Systems Engineer - Channel Manager at Exclusive GRP

Sep 2, 2019

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.

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reviewer1281888

IT Senior Manager at Experian

Jan 12, 2022

The most valuable features are DDoS protection.

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Ben Izra Dacudao

Sales Executive at EVVO LABS

Dec 24, 2021

Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code.

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reviewer1262313

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Jul 19, 2020

The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure.

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Imperva DDoS Cons review quotes

reviewer1247523

Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Jun 11, 2025

I would like to see improvements in the pooling of threats and attacks, possibly to enlarge the scale of indicators of compromise.

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reviewer1358583

Application Security Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 13, 2020

Certificate management could be improved.

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OLUWASEGUN ADERIBIGBE

Manager - IT Security at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Mar 3, 2020

Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa.

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TF

CTO at Klaatu IT Security Ltd

Jul 17, 2022

There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features.

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EW

CDN & Cybersecurity Engineer - Web performance & security at CDN Tech / Ecritel

Dec 23, 2020

The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side.

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System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Feb 12, 2018

I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall.

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Joakim Sörqvist

Senior Systems Engineer - Channel Manager at Exclusive GRP

Sep 2, 2019

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.

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reviewer1281888

IT Senior Manager at Experian

Jan 12, 2022

Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once.

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Ben Izra Dacudao

Sales Executive at EVVO LABS

Dec 24, 2021

Imperva always needs to adjust to new versions of cyber attacks, it needs to be faster, improve the resiliency of the software of the solution.

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reviewer1262313

Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Jul 19, 2020

The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process.

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