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Imperva DDoS Valuable Features

reviewer1247523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Over the seven years, the most valuable features of Imperva DDoS that I have found are related to DDoS attacks, which are a group of attacks, and not all of them can be resolved on the endpoint level before the website. Using the web firewall before the website is a common use case to protect against malicious requests to the website.

I have utilized Imperva's Intelligent Traffic Filtering feature. This feature helps me understand how the attack is progressing and what is happening inside the requests to our website. It allows me to granularly grant or deny access to certain parts of our website. This helps when we know our customers and the types of requests that can be sent from them, enabling us to block some malicious requests.

Imperva DDoS has User Behavior Analytics and Threat Intelligence on its board, and this helps us to be protected proactively. Imperva DDoS connects to its database of threats, storing whole information about attacks all over the world in one simple engine. Everyone can use this feature, which can connect to this engine and get information about what is going on at the world level. That is the way to be protected at the company's level.

The integration capabilities of Imperva DDoS are very easy and simple. We can run it in 2 hours.

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BS
Large account Manager at Softcell Technologies Limited

The bot management features are very effective, as they help filter unwanted traffic using keywords. Imperva's ability to filter out non-genuine traffic provides a significant improvement to security and performance.

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reviewer2398995 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Imperva DDoS helps us automate production. The client had specific requirements for a cloud project in the financial sector.

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Imperva DDoS
April 2025
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DerrickAkankwasa - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at Isolutions Associates Ltd (ISOLS)

For Linux protection, the most important feature is layer seven DDoS protection, which focuses on application-level threats. Imperva does offer layer three DDoS protection, but that's less common in my region. 

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TF
CTO at Klaatu IT Security Ltd

We can look after an entire what used to be a Class C network/24. Now, they could do single IP addresses, so they can protect a single IP address, and they have a three-second SLA to stop an attack. They back that up with a very large amount of money as well, so you've got a guarantee on it.

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RiaanDu Preez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cyber Security Specialist Architect at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees

We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping.

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reviewer2159601 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager- Secure Web Defense- Perimeter Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high. I haven't faced any downtime or system instability issues with the solution.

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reviewer1281888 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Senior Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable features are DDoS protection. The Incapsula environment helps us monitor all the web activity. All the web activity is passed through their WAF cloud services, then that can help us to monitor those activities. That can help protect against DDoS hacking.

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Roi-Nahari - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at CyberApp

The solution has the best volumetric DDoS attacks feature.

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BI
Sales Executive at EVVO LABS

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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reviewer1581819 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a security firm with 51-200 employees

It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL. One of the unique features included with Imperva is its advanced bot protection. In addition the base licensing modules with most of the features.

In terms of features, Imperva is quite good; it outperforms its competitors.

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VE
Director at IT Big Bang

Imperva makes it easier for us to put everything in code; we use Terraform to deploy our infrastructure. 

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reviewer1538052 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Technique at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

DDoS protection and WAF are the most valuable features. It is easy to deploy a service. It is easy and quick to deploy to a new website.

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reviewer1499046 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Global IT Security at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers. It saves us some security hits and top-level bad guy stuff. It's very good at protecting us. It keeps anything malicious off of our infrastructure.

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

-WAF protection works almost out-of-the-box

-Anti-DDoS mitigation in less than 1s, I saw it many time in production, I can say it works

-CDN has high performances, and the Smart Caching mode is really "smart" (you can do some efficient caching even if you're not a specialist)

-It's a unique interface for managing security and performance aspects, we don't need to go through multiples providers to manages these aspects.

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reviewer1358583 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Security Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is that it is cloud-based and we do not need to have an appliance for it in house.  

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reviewer1484703 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Imperva is really amazing, feature wise and performance wise.

Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay.

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LR
Support Manager at Sefisa

There are quite a few useful Imperva Incapsula features. For example, one of them is the reports. The graphics are very good and it's easy to configure. The whole process is very fast and reliable too. They have good tech support as well.

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reviewer1407915 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information System Security Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

I'm very happy with the solution. The most valuable aspect of it is that it blocks all types of attacks.

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reviewer1262313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

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

The solution keeps itself up to date itself and there's no customization that we need to do. It makes it extremely easy and cut back on the amount of work required, and saves us on man-hours.

The initial setup is fairly easy.

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reviewer1322772 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot.

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

For this part of the world, several things are important. It is important that the clients have the features which they get to use to get against bad traffic, of course as this is the reason for the product. But especially for customers in this region, it is also the opportunity to use the service platform. They do not have to own it or maintain it and they may not otherwise have the capacity to deploy this type of solution. Instead, they can pay for it as a service. It works so well here that even some of the banks are using it.  

The most valuable feature is the ability to mitigate bad traffic. I think the highest traffic we would experience can be handled by the Incapsula Cloud WAF because it can scale. So if there is some attack on a website and there is high volume, instead of it disrupting the website and disrupting business operations, it is not a problem for the customer's website. That ability to mitigate problems with the traffic is why the clients use the product to protect their valuable data and customer interactions.  

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DS
Security Expert at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The most important aspect of the solution is the DDoS feature.

The solution has a very good interface.

Last year, the solution added a lot of additional improvements and functionalities, and for now, the features they have offered us have been great. 

They recently added some account takeover protections that have been really useful.

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MS
Director Of Hosting Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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

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JS
Senior Systems Engineer - Channel Manager at Exclusive GRP

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. 

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AJ
Technical Sales Director at Revere Technologies

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.

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BM
Sr Associate Information Security at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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

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it_user817755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Anti-DDoS protection, as well as other protections like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and antiscanner. These types of protection are valuable to the business due to the daily attacks on our portals, and that often cannot be seen without a tool like this.

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it_user818130 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  1. I like to see the security. 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. For this feature, I like it because I can see information quickly without going into long logs and details. It is very comprehensive regarding what is going on behind the scenes on the website traffic.
  2. The option saying activity launch. On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat. If I click on the details, it shows me exactly where it came from, who the user agent is, and what page they tried to enter. Then, it gives me the session. Also, I have the option to put them on the blacklist or the white list. Therefore, I like this option because it is more detailed. If someone causes more than one of the incidents, then they are maybe suspicious, and we want to learn more about it. Here we can get the data, and under the data, we can see the IP addresses, therefore tracking and copying that IP address and putting it under IP lookup.
  3. The dashboard is good and user-friendly. You can easily understand it, even if you don't have any prior knowledge. Looking at it, you can easily see what is happening because it is a very user-friendly menu and user interface. I don't come from this exact background, but it seems I am supposed to manage and work with this stuff. Because of the user interface, I can understand even without having prior knowledge or education of it.
  4. The real-time option is cool as well. On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website. 
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it_user814458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Business Development at Seguridad América

More than features, the complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers.

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it_user162618 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at a security firm with 501-1,000 employees

The ability to trace each connection, and to have logs to be able to differentiate between a positive and a false-positive intruder action.

It is handy to retrieve and download the logs to line up separate actions to identify possible intruder behaviour.

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it_user316611 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Security at IronFX Global Limited

IncapRules is one of the most valuable features, as you can create your own security and access control rules on top of your security policy. Using IncapRules we were able to easily block Layer 7 DDoS attacks several times.

Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time.

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it_user638760 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administator at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
  • DDoS protection
  • CDN
  • WAF
  • Good API for managing services
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it_user623562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Security Architect at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

Hands down, the WAF is the most valuable feature; being able to identify, block, whitelist or blacklist as needed, are all valuable.

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Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cyber Defense & Offensive Security at Habib Bank Limited

Content monitoring is a marvelous feature that I haven't seen in other Web Application Firewalls. It also has a good content filter. We do a lot of penetration testing on our servers, and the Imperva standalone solution for identifying a payload and its signature by deep analysis was very good.

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it_user569916 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Very easy to configure, which quickly allows us to add significant security to our websites.
  • Nice dashboard, which shows us details about traffic, security, performance, real-time utilization and an activity log.
  • Easy to configure caching, content optimization and other advanced settings, which allows us to improve the customer experience if necessary, or keep the defaults if any change is unnecessary.
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it_user609369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • Easy-to-set-up CDN with PCI-level IDS/IPS
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SB
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • Extensive cache control like cache purging and cache rule propagation
  • Availability features
  • Cross-datacenter solution (active and passive environments)
  • CDN and DDoS protection with 24/7 support
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it_user574089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Infrastructure protection (anti-DDoS): Imperva anti-DDoS protection has the well-known value of having lots of distributed nodes around the world, making it the best value for DDoS protection. They also include protection against almost all known DDoS attack methods.

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it_user601449 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Product Development and Architecture at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

WAF configuration is the most valuable feature.

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AM
Senior Web Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Incapsula:

  • Strength of DDoS and WAF
  • Simple dashboard
  • Analytics
  • SSL

CloudFlare:

  • Ease of use
  • Simple dashboard
  • DNS management
  • CDN
  • SSL
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it_user573036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Relations Coordinator at a marketing services firm

I like the interface, customer service, and info updates.

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it_user573036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Relations Coordinator at a marketing services firm

Customer Support has been the biggest help in dire situations. Their control panel is nice but support has been the best.

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it_user571794 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

IncapRules, Login Protect & CDN are the most valuable features of Incapsula.

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it_user570156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech company with 51-200 employees
it_user570582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Load balancing and DDoS protection.

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it_user571110 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Adminisrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Security rules and DDoS protection.

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it_user508662 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT & DevOps Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

We are using Incapsula as our web application firewall and for DDoS protection, and it performs really well at its job. Incapsula packs some great features, such as SSL support, content caching and the ability to 'play' with the rules as much as you'd like.

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it_user510588 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • Hidden origin
  • IP whitelist
  • Country blocking
  • Anti-DDoS
  • Special page protection (two-factor authentication)
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it_user507306 - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Solutions Architect | Development Manager | Technical Business Analyst at Corporate SEO
  • Faultless inlining & minification: Every competing product breaks the layout, but we are yet to see Incapsula break a site
  • Installation requires just a CNAME entry, avoiding the risk of email downtime.
  • Instant PCI compliance and protection from the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
  • CDN & DDoS protection.
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it_user504216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The added security is the biggest bonus feature, as our websites are not usually under extreme load but do have highly sensitive data. A good WAF can be difficult enough to configure even without many of the advanced security features that Imperva Incapsula includes: SQL injection prevention, bot attack recognition and notification, and DDoS.

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it_user298473 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Response Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • DDoS Protection
  • Load Balancing
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it_user300444 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • It provides real-time traffic analysis.
  • It gives location/hit/page view details.
  • It can easily and instantly block IPs.
  • We can investigate questionable and suspicious IPs.
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it_user304074 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales office at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
  • CDN
  • Site performance
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it_user300540 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The Web Application Firewall (WAF) is very helpful in protecting SQL injections by hackers.

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it_user302106 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Development Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I'd say that the most valuable feature is the ease of use in configuration, the analytics, and the integration with Incapsula’s robot database.

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it_user300492 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer/Major Accounts with 51-200 employees
  • CDN
  • DDoS protection
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it_user298446 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP R&D with 51-200 employees

The features that are most valuable are the protection against denial-of-service attacks and all kinds of other internet attacks. The presence of Incapsula helps us answer the compliance requirements for IT security, as our clients require IT security compliance, and it's very important to our enterprise customers that we comply with the requirements.

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it_user298143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Software Development at a music company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Caching and CDN
  • WAF
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it_user288354 - PeerSpot reviewer
President/General Manager with 51-200 employees
  • Web security
  • Protection against DDoS
  • Easy to use administration portal
  • Reports
  • It’s simple to configure
  • Very effective
  • Easy solution to administer for protecting websites of all sizes
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it_user182781 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
  • Human contact
  • Fast SLA
  • Trustworthy and excellent communication

Highly-functional back office with user friendly reports and intelligence on bad IPS and malicious software is at very high level and very quick. Part of the solutions function is that they have to stay on top of the data intelligence game. They have the first knowledge of break points.

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it_user279876 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager with 501-1,000 employees
  • DDOS defence
  • Load balancing
  • Security role
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it_user277947 - PeerSpot reviewer
Online Marketing Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

Their WAS - I had a problem and I turned to Incapsula. I needed someone to protect the website and they succeeded in this regard.

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it_user277953 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Director with 501-1,000 employees

The Web Application firewall is a valuable feature as the security features are mostly what we're interested in.

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it_user1122 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Expert at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Their solutions are always on, in depth and protect against most all web threats imaginable. View full review »
Buyer's Guide
Imperva DDoS
April 2025
Learn what your peers think about Imperva DDoS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2025.
859,687 professionals have used our research since 2012.