We performed a comparison between Fastly 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."Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"The dynamic profiling of websites is the solution's most valuable feature. The security is also good."
"The solution is very scalable. It is one of the most important features. You can also expand resources and features as well."
"Imperva monitors all traffic, even customer access, to the web application. Then, Imperva uses features like signatures to identify attacks like cross-site scripting or SQL injection."
"The solution has been quite stable. I have not seen any bugs at all."
"One good thing about Imperva Web Application Firewall is it can be on the cloud and also it can be on-premise."
"The tool's profiling feature maps all the web application directories and related components on the profile directory. It has improved the security of my client's website applications."
"The solution is stable."
"Compared to other web application firewalls in the market, Imperva does things in the most accurate way."
"Support is not that great."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
"The signature updates could be faster. Sometimes we have to upload signatures to the Imperva portal for checking and analysis before we can use them."
"I'd like the option to pick your bot protection."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
"The process to upgrade from one version to another can be a lot simpler than it is currently."
"It's a complicated tool to keep."
"I would like to improve the tool's turnaround time in terms of support."
"The Imperva Web Application Firewall automations are good, but there is still room for improvement with them."
"The user interface could be better."
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Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 47 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, AWS WAF, Amazon CloudFront and Edgio, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Fastly vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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