We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Imperva Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The F5 GTM/BIGIP DNS (Global Traffic Manager) is a valuable feature. This feature allows for DNS load balancing, which means that high availability and load sharing can be done across services locally, as well as across datacenters with advanced capabilities."
"The solution is easy to install. It's a straightforward process."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"It is the perfect solution when you have high workloads in your IT environment."
"The F5 interface is easy to use."
"I think F5's tech support may be better than Citrix's because they mainly focus on the ADC product, but Citrix support covers Hypervisor, XenMobile, FAS, and ADC. And from my experience, sometimes, we face some issues that Citrix cannot handle."
"F5 BIG-IP is used with good applications and functions as an application firewall with additional features. We will not use any feature or any service unless there is a business case and there is a need for implementation."
"It can determine if the system is going down, then route the traffic somewhere else."
"The dynamic profiling of websites is the solution's most valuable feature. The security is also good."
"There are a number of features that are valuable such as the account takeover and various antivirus features."
"The solution can scale."
"There is a quick switch between any of the the nodes if something goes wrong, where there's a there's an attack against a specific area. The security setup is reasonably easy. It's not a problem to do setups and rules and integrations. And, yeah, just the the back end team is also very willing to insist if there's questions that that we cannot answer or with these questions that we do have"
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is a highly stable solution and is very mature."
"The solution has been quite stable. I have not seen any bugs at all."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"In terms of pricing, it could be more competitive."
"The one gap I saw was that pure LBN integration is a little tricky. The insertion of F5 in LBN is a little tricky. They need to work on something, on products by which they can insert F5 in any sort of cloud environment."
"Native support for containers should be added to future releases, as this is the future of load balancing."
"The logging features are too limited and do not give us a solid understanding of what's happening."
"Initial setup is tricky, if you do not understand the design of this product."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"The initial setup can take a long time."
"The management interface is unclear, complex, and not concise. I would like a better user interface."
"I don't really use it and therefore can't speak to areas of improvement."
"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."
"The only disadvantage of Imperva is that it is a pretty costly solution."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is a good system, but we found that the visibility of the diverse-path server, e.g. where the traffic is coming from, the different IPs, etc., needs improvement."
"There's always room for improvement. Occasionally, there might be false-positive alerts."
"Their portal is very limited and needs improvement."
"It would be helpful to have a "recommended deployment", or even a list of basic features that should either be used or turned on by default."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 46 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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