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 solution is very easy to use and easy to understand. It's quite an intuitive system."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"In terms of stability, it is stable."
"What we like best about this solution is its stability. It is extremely stable."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"It helps us recognize sessions from certain IPs that are authorized to manage the application. This is a function we haven't found anywhere else."
"We have multiple solutions we can deploy through the F5."
"We are using Application Security Manager (ASM) as a web application firewall, where there is a security signature to avoid a web level breach."
"The features I have found most valuable with Imperva Web Application Firewall are account takeover protection, advanced bot protection, and API security."
"The most valuable feature of Imperva, in addition to its strong knowledge base, is its effective protection for web applications."
"The WAF itself has been very valuable to me because it has such a complete range of features. Another reason why I like it is because it also takes care of the total overview of the traffic over the network."
"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."
"The solution integrates seamlessly with other tools and has a good alert mechanism."
"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."
"I am impressed with the product's scalability, availability, easy management, and security. We were able to integrate the product with Azure and Sentinel."
"The configurability of the tools and the ease of operation to be the most valuable feature of Imperva."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is sometimes a bit cumbersome to deal with some builds, although that's gotten significantly better over the years."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"To improve the product, they could add more load balancing solutions in Kubernetes."
"Its scalability and deployment should be better. It should be more scalable, and it should be easier to deploy."
"The product is expensive."
"The solution's hardware quality needs improvement."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"The only disadvantage of Imperva is that it is a pretty costly solution."
"The solution works for particular zones but isn't always the best solution for all zones."
"I would like the solution to improve its support response time."
"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall can improve by providing better features, such as improved prevention of zero-day attacks. Additionally, it should include a VR meta-analysis."
"It's a complicated tool to keep."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall could improve the console by making it easier to use."
"They recently separated the WAF and the DAM management gateways in order for each of these to be managed from different areas, so I believe it now requires additional investments for what was previously a single complete solution."
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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 47 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 "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". 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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