We performed a comparison between Azure Web Application Firewall 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's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn. It's cloud-based, so you don't need to buy or maintain any hardware infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to publish our applications behind the firewall."
"Azure WAF is extremely stable."
"It's quite a stable product and works well with Microsoft products."
"We have found the most valuable features to be the web application, minimal skills required for management, control through policies, and automation."
"It has been a stable product in my experience."
"The solution has good dashboards."
"The integration it has with GitHub is great."
"There are quite a few useful Imperva Incapsula features. For example, one of them is the reports. The graphics are very good and it's easy to configure. The whole process is very fast and reliable too. They have good tech support as well."
"Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"Provides Anti-DDoS protection, as well as other protections like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and antiscanner. These types of protection are valuable to the business due to the daily attacks on our portals, and that often cannot be seen without a tool like this."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"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."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"The support for proxy forwarding could improve."
"The documentation needs to be improved."
"I would say that Azure's customer service is not that good...I am not very happy with the support offered."
"Deployment should be simplified so that a non-techie can handle it."
"From a reporting perspective, they could do more there."
"There is a need to be able to configure the solution more."
"The management can be improved."
"In Brazil, we have some problems with the phone service that affect our connection with the cloud. However, it isn't common."
"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"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."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"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."
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Azure Web Application Firewall is ranked 12th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 9 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Azure Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Azure Web Application Firewall writes "It's a good option if you want a solution that's ready to go and easy for your team to learn". 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". Azure Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, Fortinet FortiWeb, Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door and Indusface AppTrana, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our Azure Web Application Firewall vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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