We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"The solution has a very good interface."
"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."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"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."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"It's quite expensive."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
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Imperva DDoS is ranked 19th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 38th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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