We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon, Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."Technical support provides good, quick responses."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"It is a stable solution."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"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."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"Setup was straightforward, very simple. I only entered the domain and Incapsula returned the DNS data that I needed to change for the protection to be configured."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
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Imperva DDoS is ranked 15th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 35th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WAPPLES.
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