We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector 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."Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the custom rules feature. This is because many of our customers require a lot of custom rules. Because it's a very customized project for our customers, I think they have the best of everything already."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"The product has a good user interface."
"Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"It gives us a report of traffic. It gives us a report of the day-to-day URL traffic, and it also gives an individual report. If we reach out to Akamai, they give us the IPs as well."
"It is scalable for DDoS."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"Its unique interface for managing security performance and ease of use are the most valuable features of this solution."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"The interface is a little bit clunky and can be improved."
"It would be nice if Akamai Web Application Protector's price is lowered and made cheaper."
"One thing I asked them is to integrate the API discovery product that they have and push that data into Akamai App and API Protector so that we do not have two types of reviews to identify the type of traffic. We already know the APIs that are frequently getting used, so analysis becomes easier. We can integrate both products and use them."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"The product should provide a secure NTP."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". 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". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and Azure Front Door, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and Fortinet FortiADC. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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