We performed a comparison between Checkmarx One and Imperva Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature for me is the Jenkins Plugin."
"The UI is very intuitive and simple to use."
"The user interface is modern and nice to use."
"The ability to track the vulnerabilities inside the code (origin and destination of weak variables or functions)."
"It shows in-depth code of where actual vulnerabilities are."
"Vulnerability details is valuable."
"It allows for SAST scanning of uncompiled code. Further, it natively integrates with all key repos formats (Git, TFS, SVN, Perforce, etc)."
"It's not an obstacle for developers. They can easily write their code and make it more secure with Checkmarx."
"The solution can scale."
"Imperva is a Gartner leader, so its scalability, performance, and features are excellent."
"There are a number of features that are valuable such as the account takeover and various antivirus features."
"The solution integrates seamlessly with other tools and has a good alert mechanism."
"The dynamic profiling of websites is the solution's most valuable feature. The security is also good."
"There are many features. There is ease of deployment. You can deploy the Imperva Web Application Firewall in two to three minutes. After that, you have to set the policies. For setting policies, you have toggle buttons. You can turn something on or off."
"We can prevent attacks or issues even before they happen."
"Imperva has a complete picture of how the applications are utilizing it. It is handy. DDoS is good. It has an internally managed database. It is very easy to integrate. We have integrated it with SIEM services."
"If it is a very large code base then we have a problem where we cannot scan it."
"The solution's user interface could be improved because it seems outdated."
"I would like to see the tool’s pricing improved."
"I expect application security vendors to cover all aspects of application security, including SAST, DAST, and even mobile application security testing. And it would be much better if they provided an on-premises and cloud option for all these main application security features."
"We want to have a holistic view of the portfolio-level dashboard and not just an individual technical project level."
"One area for improvement in Checkmarx is pricing, as it's more expensive than other products."
"Checkmarx could improve the solution reports and false positives. The false positives could be reduced. For example, we have alerts that are tagged as vulnerabilities but when you drill down they are not."
"The resolutions should also be provided. For example, if the user faces any problem regarding an installation due to the internal security policies of their company, there should be a resolution offered."
"The only disadvantage of Imperva is that it is a pretty costly solution."
"They can provide an option to create reports, automatically import the entire report, and create rules again. In a real-life crisis, it would be helpful to be able to import a report and generate security rules from that report. I should be able to create a simple query and import the reports automatically. It can maybe also tell us the format of the report."
"One potential improvement for Imperva is enhancing its alert system."
"I think that better bot protection is needed in this solution."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall can improve by adding more features to the dashboard. increasing the visibility of the real-time events, besides configuring the administration itself."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
"I would like the solution to improve its support response time."
"It is complicated to integrate the solution's on-cloud version with other platforms."
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Checkmarx One is ranked 3rd in Application Security Tools with 67 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 47 reviews. Checkmarx One is rated 7.6, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Checkmarx One writes "The report function is a great, configurable asset but sometimes yields false positives". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". Checkmarx One is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Coverity, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door. See our Checkmarx One vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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