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."It is scalable for DDoS."
"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."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"All the solution's features are very good."
"The dashboard is the most interesting feature of the Akamai portal where you can have a detailed analysis of all the attacks that are happening. You can drill down an issue and see exactly what is happening, who are the bad guys attacking your website, and how Akamai is protecting the website. That is the most valuable feature."
"I can attest to its benefits in terms of understanding and mitigating threats...The solution's technical support team seems to be pretty responsive."
"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"The solution easily identifies, delays, or allows business traffic."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."
"IncapRules is one of the most valuable features, as you can create your own security and access control rules on top of your security policy. Using IncapRules we were able to easily block Layer 7 DDoS attacks several times."
"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."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"Real-time monitoring is also a great tool, as you may watch several parameters in real time."
"Akamai App and API Protector is very new to me, so I do not have any insights on improvement areas for the product. However, when we ask for some help, it can take some time. We understand that the job is done by professionals, but if that time can be reduced, it would be great."
"The custom rules must be improved."
"Could integrate more features for each security."
"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."
"I do not see any area for improvement. Akamai is already maintaining its own databases for the security concerns, vulnerabilities, and attacks that are there. If anything, they should have a solution in the infrastructure security area as well. They should not be only in cloud cybersecurity; they should also be in infrastructure security."
"The product should provide a secure NTP."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"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."
"Imperva always needs to adjust to new versions of cyber attacks, it needs to be faster, improve the resiliency of the software of the solution."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
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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