We performed a comparison between Imperva Web Application Firewall and Symantec Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."Learning mode and custom policies are helpful features."
"There are a number of features that are valuable such as the account takeover and various antivirus features."
"It mitigates all of the availabilities of risks around web applications."
"We can prevent attacks or issues even before they happen."
"The solution integrates seamlessly with other tools and has a good alert mechanism."
"I have had a positive experience with Imperva Web Application Firewall's tech support so far. They are knowledgeable and respond on time."
"The dynamic profiling of websites is the solution's most valuable feature. The security is also good."
"The solution has been quite stable. I have not seen any bugs at all."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"One potential improvement for Imperva is enhancing its alert system."
"I loved the approach of the cloud. The cloud has a lot of new features, like advanced web protection and DDoS protection. If those could also be on-boarded onto the on-prem versions, that would be ideal. They need to pay attention to both deployment options and not just favor one."
"I think that better bot protection is needed in this solution."
"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."
"It would be nice to have more security control over mobile applications so I would suggest adding more mobile security features. It would also be beneficial to see improvements in regards to interface bandwidth performance, CPU time, and RAM size. Learning capability of the device is quite weak."
"The tool's UI is complicated. It would be best to have a more accessible UI dashboard to make the job easier."
"There's always room for improvement. Occasionally, there might be false-positive alerts."
"The support for the on-premises version needs improvement."
"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."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
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Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 46 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 37th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. 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 Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WAPPLES.
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