We performed a comparison between Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Technical support has a very fast response time and they are helpful."
"It is configurable via API."
"The initial setup process is simple."
"It is a SaaS solution unlike much of the competition."
"It protects web applications efficiently."
"We like that there's load balancing, firewall capabilities, DDoS protection, et cetera, all covered by Cloudflare."
"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."
"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."
"It mitigates all of the availabilities of risks around web applications."
"The features I have found most valuable with Imperva Web Application Firewall are account takeover protection, advanced bot protection, and API security."
"The dynamic profiling of websites is the solution's most valuable feature. The security is also good."
"The solution is cloud-based and offers us good uptime. It has combined web and API security. Therefore, with one license, you access both application security and also API security."
"The solution is very scalable. It is one of the most important features. You can also expand resources and features as well."
"The configurability of the tools and the ease of operation to be the most valuable feature of Imperva."
"Configuration for different application sources is most valuable. We can segregate the traffic that an application is carrying and identify the sizing in Imperva."
"The most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are performance and flexibility. We can extend or customize the box itself."
"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."
"The accuracy of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall could be improved by reducing the number of false-negative alerts."
"They have some limitations with third-party integrations."
"If they add logs history within the Cloudflare offering, that would be a great benefit."
"It would be ideal if the solution offered better log integration and more integration with different platforms."
"Their documentation could be better. They don't have documentation that explains everything well. They have documentation for everything you're looking for, but they lack a single piece of documentation to tie everything together. As a new user or beginner, it took us a little bit of time to figure out how to put all these things in place."
"Its stability could be better."
"The platform's control features related to real-time authentication and response time need improvement."
"I am looking for more data enrichment. We should have the ability to add our own custom data to the system, to the live traffic."
"The Imperva Web Application Firewall automations are good, but there is still room for improvement with them."
"It would be nice to have more security control over mobile applications so I would suggest adding more mobile security features. It would also be beneficial to see improvements in regards to interface bandwidth performance, CPU time, and RAM size. Learning capability of the device is quite weak."
"In the past, I have bugs on the WAF. I've contacted Imperva about them. Future releases should be less buggy."
"I think that better bot protection is needed in this solution."
"The user interface could be better."
"The process to upgrade from one version to another can be a lot simpler than it is currently."
"The tool needs to improve CPU and storage memory."
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Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is ranked 7th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 16 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 47 reviews. Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is rated 8.2, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall writes "A cloud solution for web application firewall protection with rate-limiting, managed, and custom firewall rules". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is most compared with Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Akamai App and API Protector, AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Akamai App and API Protector. See our Cloudflare Web Application Firewall vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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