We performed a comparison between Akamai and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"Akamai provides low-latency throughput."
"If an attacker conducts an attack, we can check what query he is running and whether he wants to see our password or any other files."
"The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"It's a scalable and reliable solution."
"We can see how much traffic can be downloaded on the portal."
"The solution's technical support is very prompt and good."
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"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."
"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"Imperva DDoS is fairly stable, and its availability is quite high."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"Their support is very slow. If you file a support ticket, it takes a long time before it gets resolved."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"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 had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"The log analytics interface within Incapsula isn't really good. For example, if you have to get all logs from there, it's a very cumbersome process."
"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."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"The weakest point of Imperva is their first level of support, which should be improved. They should also improve the access and security logs viewing directly on the portal. I would like to see better access and security logs through the portal and not only through a SIM solution. Currently, if you want to explore your access and security logs from Imperva, you need a SIM tool or a SIM infrastructure on your side to do it. You can't do it manually or directly through the portal, which is a big problem for us. I had a call yesterday with Imperva for the roadmap, and I just told them this. They agreed that this is an improvement point from their side."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". 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 is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, AWS WAF and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Akamai vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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