We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS and Rapid7 AppSpider based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"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."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"Provides 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."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the reporting, which is compliant with international standards."
"The setup is usually straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Rapid7 AppSpider is the vulnerability reporting data. Additionally, the data is reported in a convenient way rather than seeing them as a PDF. We are able to generate all the reports exactly what we want in a flexible way."
"I would say that it is stable, as I am not aware of any major issues."
"The entire solution is interactive and has a point-and-click user experience, which makes it easy to find items or drill down on information. You don't need specialized skills to use the product."
"It is really accurate and the rate of false positives is very low."
"AppSpider's most valuable feature is reporting - everything is stored in the local database so it can be sent to other machines."
"It scans all the components developed within a web application."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"It's quite expensive."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"There are some glitches with stability, and it is an area for improvement."
"AppSpider could improve in the area of integration. They need to add more integration opportunities."
"AppSpider has some problems with the RAM needed while scanning."
"The enterprise interface is too simple. It should be more customizable."
"The performance of the solution could improve. When I compare the speed it is slower than others on the market. There are some tricks we use to help speed up the solution."
"Implementing Rapid7 AppSpider requires scanning and self-identification mechanisms. You can add different types of authentication to each scan."
"One of the challenges I have with AppSpider is that it gives you a lot of false positives, especially when compared to other solutions."
"Support response times are slow and can be improved."
Imperva DDoS is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews while Rapid7 AppSpider is ranked 26th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 13 reviews. Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while Rapid7 AppSpider is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 AppSpider writes "Useful vulnerability reporting data, flexible, and simple implementation". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas Rapid7 AppSpider is most compared with Rapid7 InsightAppSec, OWASP Zap, Acunetix, Invicti and Qualys Web Application Scanning.
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