We performed a comparison between Imperva Web Application Firewall and Radware Alteon 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."Imperva is a Gartner leader, so its scalability, performance, and features are excellent."
"We can prevent attacks or issues even before they happen."
"The configurability of the tools and the ease of operation to be the most valuable feature of Imperva."
"The most important feature I have found to be the ease in how to do the backup and restores."
"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."
"Learning mode and custom policies are helpful features."
"The most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are performance and flexibility. We can extend or customize the box itself."
"There are many features. There is ease of deployment. You can deploy the Imperva Web Application Firewall in two to three minutes. After that, you have to set the policies. For setting policies, you have toggle buttons. You can turn something on or off."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"The best features are the security through the web application firewall, the functionality that the solution offers, being a load balancer with the security functionality on top of it, and the ease of administration."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"The integrated application protection provided by Alteon is very good. It really helps to avoid false positives in some cases. It provides important granularity to avoid a situation in which security or cybersecurity scenarios escape us."
"The support for the on-premises version needs improvement."
"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."
"Sometimes our web application firewall will slow down."
"It's a complicated tool to keep."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
"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 tool needs to improve CPU and storage memory."
"Their portal is very limited and needs improvement."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
"The solution could be more robust."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"The reverse proxy piece is a little bit complicated. If the reverse proxy were easier to implement, that would help."
"We are in the process of updating our version of the solution, so judging what should be improved is difficult. But in some cases, the visualization takes a while, especially for mapping issues."
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Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 46 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Fastly, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and Radware LinkProof. See our Imperva Web Application Firewall vs. Radware Alteon report.
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