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We performed a comparison between Imperva Web Application Firewall and Rapid7 AppSpider based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The solution has been quite stable. I have not seen any bugs at all.""Imperva Web Application Firewall is a highly stable solution and is very mature.""We can prevent attacks or issues even before they happen.""Learning mode and custom policies are helpful features.""Very intuitive and granular configuration - It does not require much time, or advanced knowledge, for configuration and maintenance.""The tool's profiling feature maps all the web application directories and related components on the profile directory. It has improved the security of my client's website applications.""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.""The features I have found most valuable with Imperva Web Application Firewall are account takeover protection, advanced bot protection, and API security."

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"The entire solution is interactive and has a point-and-click user experience, which makes it easy to find items or drill down on information. You don't need specialized skills to use the product.""Rapid7 AppSpider is good at managing different applications. It uses applets and generates reports to cover the PCA/GDPR compliance requirements.""I like the ability the product has to detect vulnerabilities quickly, when it has been released in our environment, then displaying them to us.""It scans all the components developed within a web application.""The most valuable feature of Rapid7 AppSpider is the vulnerability reporting data. Additionally, the data is reported in a convenient way rather than seeing them as a PDF. We are able to generate all the reports exactly what we want in a flexible way.""The setup is usually straightforward.""I would say that it is stable, as I am not aware of any major issues.""The most valuable feature is the reporting, which is compliant with international standards."

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"Imperva Web Application Firewall is very expensive.""It's a complicated tool to keep.""The only disadvantage of Imperva is that it is a pretty costly solution.""It is complicated to integrate the solution's on-cloud version with other platforms.""I am looking for more data enrichment. We should have the ability to add our own custom data to the system, to the live traffic.""I would like the solution to improve its support response time.""It would be useful if the solution used more intelligence in attack protection. For example, firewalls are to be dependent on the configuration, but if they could have some data science around it the solution would be even better. The profiling of the traffic, and making decisions surrounding that should be intelligence-based, instead of being based on the configuration of the firewall itself.""Imperva Web Application Firewall can improve by adding more features to the dashboard. increasing the visibility of the real-time events, besides configuring the administration itself."

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"The solution is too slow. It could take a full day to scan. Competitors are much faster.""There are some glitches with stability, and it is an area for improvement.""This price of this solution is a little bit expensive.""The tech support is responsive but issues remain unresolved.""It needs better integration with mobile applications.""One of the challenges I have with AppSpider is that it gives you a lot of false positives, especially when compared to other solutions.""AppSpider could improve in the area of integration. They need to add more integration opportunities.""AppSpider has some problems with the RAM needed while scanning."

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  • "Make sure you understand the way that Imperva charges. It's very affordable. However, I would like to see a package with the Virtual Patching included. You get to do patching separately."
  • "Everybody complains about the price of this solution."
  • "The cost of this solution depends on the platform."
  • "The price of this solution is a little bit high compared to competitors."
  • "There are some licenses that you have to buy to use some features. Its price could be better. Price is always important because, at the end of the day, customers have a budget. If you can meet the budget, you can sell, and if you don't, you cannot sell."
  • "There is a license for this solution and we purchase the license annually with no additional fees."
  • "There are a couple of different licensing models."
  • "The price of Imperva Web Application Firewalls is expensive compared to others."
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  • "It is expensive if you want to buy the Enterprise version that is able to scan multiple applications at once."
  • "The price is pretty fair."
  • "The licensing cost depends on the number of users."
  • "AppSpider is closed-source software and you need to acquire a license in order to use it."
  • "The price of Rapid7 AppSpider cost 9,000 annually but there is limited usage. Large companies are able to negotiate a better price or a better deal for the usage with the vendor."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:For ADC, any ADC can do a good job. But in case if you want to add WAF functionality to the same ADC hardware you have to look for other ADC's like F5, Imperva, Radware, Fortinet, etc. 
    Top Answer:You can have a look to Imperva Cloud WAF, the anti-DDoS mitigation is under 1s and works very well. I observed a lot of DDoS attacks that were well managed (even not seen by the customer) by Imperva… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Rapid7 AppSpider is the vulnerability reporting data. Additionally, the data is reported in a convenient way rather than seeing them as a PDF. We are able to generate all… more »
    Top Answer:The price of Rapid7 AppSpider cost 9,000 annually but there is limited usage. Large companies are able to negotiate a better price or a better deal for the usage with the vendor. The price of the… more »
    Top Answer:The performance of the solution could improve. When I compare the speed it is slower than others on the market. There are some tricks we use to help speed up the solution.
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    Overview

    Imperva Web Application Firewall is a versatile solution that protects web applications and databases from various attacks, including DDoS, cross-site scripting, and SQL injection attacks. It offers data security, availability, and access control and can be deployed on-premises or on the cloud. 

    The solution has good security against web attacks and offers advanced bot protection, API security, and mitigation features. Imperva WAF is easy to configure and deploy; it has good customer service and an excellent user interface.

    SPAs, APIs, mobile—the evolution of application technology is measured in months, not years. Is your web application security testing tool designed to keep up? AppSpider lets you collect all the information needed to test all the apps so that you aren’t left with gaping application risks.

    Our dynamic application security testing (DAST) solution crawls to the deepest, darkest corners of even the most modern and complex apps to effectively test for risk and get you the insight you need to remediate faster. With AppSpider on your side (or, rather, all of your sides), you’ll be able to scan all the apps today and always be ready for whatever comes next.

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    BlueCross BlueShield, eHarmony, EMF Broadcasting, GE Healthcare, Metro Bank, The Motley Fool, Siemens
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    Computer Software Company26%
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Insurance Company11%
    Comms Service Provider11%
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    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government8%
    Healthcare Company6%
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    Small Business54%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise30%
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    Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 45 reviews while Rapid7 AppSpider is ranked 25th in Application Security Testing (AST) with 13 reviews. Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6, while Rapid7 AppSpider is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 AppSpider writes "Useful vulnerability reporting data, flexible, and simple implementation". Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door, whereas Rapid7 AppSpider is most compared with Rapid7 InsightAppSec, OWASP Zap, Acunetix, Invicti and Tenable.io Web Application Scanning.

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