We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Cloudflare has many features."
"Centralized, full-featured DNS."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"I rate its stability a ten out of ten."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is the GUI. You are able to control the solution very well through the interface. There is a lot of functionality that is embedded in the service."
"It's very user-friendly."
"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"The solution has a very good interface."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"There should be a specific price list for enterprise-level customers."
"Although I think it's quite good, it doesn't provide me with all the features I would expect to have if I were using Imperva."
"It should have easier documentation for the configuration. It's very technical and people who aren't technical should also be able to do the configuration."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
"Cloudflare does not have an on-premise solution. If they had different approaches they could be better suited to accommodate more customers, such as on-premise and hybrid deployments. For example, hybrid deployments would be useful where you could move the traffic from the enterprise to the cloud."
"Technical support is lacking."
"There are some issues with the CDN services."
"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."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"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."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"It's quite expensive."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 57 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, AWS Shield, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Arbor DDoS, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, AWS WAF and Fastly. See our Cloudflare vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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