We performed a comparison between F5 Silverline Managed Services and Imperva Web Application Firewall 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."The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture."
"The product’s UI is easy to understand."
"Most vendors fulfill the requirements for standard DDoS protection, but F5 Silverline Managed Services has a better understanding of defending web applications like HTTP and can mitigate more bot activity than any other vendor."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"We have a lot of businesses that we put behind this solution, and it has really helped us in terms of monitoring the logs and incidents."
"The configurability of the tools and the ease of operation to be the most valuable feature of Imperva."
"Imperva is a Gartner leader, so its scalability, performance, and features are excellent."
"The most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are DDoS, malware, and the other malicious threat prevention it provides. Additionally, third-party integration is available. You can forward the log for further analysis."
"Imperva has a complete picture of how the applications are utilizing it. It is handy. DDoS is good. It has an internally managed database. It is very easy to integrate. We have integrated it with SIEM services."
"The solution is stable."
"Configuration for different application sources is most valuable. We can segregate the traffic that an application is carrying and identify the sizing in Imperva."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is a highly stable solution and is very mature."
"The solution integrates seamlessly with other tools and has a good alert mechanism."
"There is a lot of room for improvement with their tech support. I am not sure F5 Silverline Managed Services can be classified as having tech support."
"The price is high in comparison to other products."
"The product could be improved on the global load and the integration with the other solution like Cisco and Dell. As a representor of the operation, we prefer to have one platform which can accommodate all type of integration. We are also looking for more improvements in the security policy configuration."
"You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by adding features that Palo Alto has."
"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."
"The navigation is difficult to use."
"The price of F5 Silverline Managed Services could be better."
"Their portal is very limited and needs improvement."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
"The tool needs to improve CPU and storage memory."
"The Imperva Web Application Firewall automations are good, but there is still room for improvement with them."
"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."
"I think that better bot protection is needed in this solution."
"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 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."
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F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 20th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 47 reviews. F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and F5 Advanced WAF, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door. See our F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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