We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Imperva DDoS 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."It's the extra security that is the most valuable feature. You have insight into your traffic. There are some great insights into what utilities hackers are trying to exploit. It blocks a lot of stuff from the internet."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiWeb is the reports and the AI-based features."
"It's easy to use and allows us to integrate solutions together."
"If I need something from tech support, I can get it answered within the hour."
"I like FortiWeb's usability and ease of configuration. It's simple to configure rules and exceptions inside the attack log. We block everything by default. If something isn't working, we ask the system admin to adjust the template and add exceptions."
"Both the internal firewall management and the cloud can be managed by a single console."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"It helps us prevent attacks on servers."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"I know that we have run into some issues with an SSL certificate and how it functions. Sometimes this breaks connectivity or just limits certain websites that are whitelisted."
"The dashboards are not that configurable. Application-specific dashboards can be improved. If we have 50 applications, there should be something to see what's happening with these 50 applications. There could be a graph or a consolidated alert page where all alerts are inbuilt. They have other products that I can use, but this feature should be built into FortiWeb."
"The solution could have more customization."
"Another area for improvement is logging. When troubleshooting, the logs sometimes take a while to update. We've had people report that some things aren't logged if they're successful. It's a bit hit-and-miss. For example, sometimes people access one of our services, and it's successful, but we don't see that in the logs."
"The memory use in each of the appliances is problematic."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"Lacks functionalities that are available in other solutions."
"A better load balancer is needed when multiple servers are used for the same website."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"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."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"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."
"We would like them to hire people in Sweden because it's quite hard when people are sitting in the UK or Belgium because some of the customers really want them to be local."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". 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". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Akamai App and API Protector. See our Fortinet FortiWeb vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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