We performed a comparison between Akamai and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Akamai's scalability is good."
"With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it has been quite helpful in our company, especially when it comes to applications needing updates frequently."
"Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally."
"The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running."
"The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files."
"The solution's technical support is very prompt and good."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"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."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"The solution has a very good interface."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."
"It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"When we open tickets, we have a delay in response times."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"The fact that it is an expensive product is its only shortcoming."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"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."
"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."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"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."
"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."
"It's quite expensive."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "Available worldwide with over 300,000 servers globally for content delivery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, AWS WAF and Fastly. See our Akamai vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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