We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The UI is good."
"From what I've seen so far, there are no negatives to report as of yet"
"I like Cloudflare's application gateway and DDoS protection."
"When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers."
"Cloudflare has many features."
"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."
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"The solution is very good at intercepting traffic before it gets to our data centers."
"Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."
"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."
"There are quite a few useful Imperva Incapsula features. For example, one of them is the reports. The graphics are very good and it's easy to configure. The whole process is very fast and reliable too. They have good tech support as well."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"It would be good if Cloudflare could have more servers for better traffic routing or an increase in the traffic routed. This is what I'd like to improve in Cloudflare."
"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."
"Cloudflare could offer a better view or maybe dashboards of the main resources used in the client."
"The pricing could be improved."
"One area of improvement is in the Access Rules. Hypothetically, if we wanted to block or challenge traffic outside of the United States, the only way to currently do that (as far as I know) is to enter every single country outside of the United States. That could be a labor intensive job. A solution could be to enable users to create a rule where traffic is only allowed within a certain country."
"Even if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to buy Cloudflare in my country."
"The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened."
"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."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"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."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"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 log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"Certificate management could be improved."
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in CDN with 55 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN 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, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS Shield and Arbor DDoS, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, AWS WAF and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Cloudflare vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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