Compare Cloudflare vs. Imperva Incapsula
Cloudflare is ranked 1st in DDoS with 7 reviews while Imperva Incapsula is ranked 3rd in DDoS with 9 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.6, while Imperva Incapsula is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "The dashboard is very well thought out, giving useful information". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Incapsula writes "We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website". Cloudflare is most compared with Imperva Incapsula, Akamai and Sucuri, whereas Imperva Incapsula is most compared with Cloudflare, Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall and AWS WAF. See our Cloudflare vs. Imperva Incapsula report.
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The technical support is good. The most valuable feature of Cloudflare is that it has a free version. They give us the free version with the anti-DDoS features and also the load balancing solution. Cloudflare allows us to self-host services such as Rocket.Chat and Node-RED, in high-availability mode, thanks to round robin DNS which allows us to share one hostname between our two locations. When using services like Heroku, Cloudflare is very useful for CNAME flattening. I also use it for their end-to-end SSL with TLS authentication on nginx for securing servers. Centralized, full-featured DNS. The simplicity of the overall dashboard makes it a great product for a user like me who has less understanding of the internet than a developer or other more technical people. It gives me peace of mind. I also love the easy customization of the Page Rules. | I like the user-friendly interface. They're quite easy to install and quite easy to set up. Clients really like that. Especially when you're dealing with the cloud, it's really easy. This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment. Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go. 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. 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. 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. On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat. |
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The product support needs to be accessible from more places, a wider area of coverage. If they improve on the placement of their data centers, it would be better. I'm living in a remote area. I would like to connect to them without any kind of lag. Sometimes their more advanced caching tools can cause higher first-byte times and problems with JavaScript. They lack a good way to manage DNS as a company, since everything is relegated to single account logins until you get to the higher levels. They have come out with a paid feature to remedy this, but I have not had a chance to fully review it yet to know if it fixes the access problem. One area of improvement is in the Access Rules. Hypothetically, if we wanted to block or challenge traffic outside of the United States, the only way to currently do that (as far as I know) is to enter every single country outside of the United States. That could be a labor intensive job. A solution could be to enable users to create a rule where traffic is only allowed within a certain country. I think the APIs are a little bit hard for us to work with. The APIs could be more open so that we could integrate better with our SolarWinds or our monitoring solution. The reporting can definitely be improved to offer a lot more explanation on something that may have happened or has actually happened. | 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. Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments. The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet. Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more. I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall. I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work. It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard. |
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There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees. I think the pricing is competitive. I think as far as licensing is concerned it's pretty straightforward because it's based on domain. It's just that sometimes domains could be tricky with some customers. | The data packages are higher than our needs so we end up paying for data that we don't use. Although the pricing can be a little high, it is worth the protection and security that it offers. For enterprise contracts you will be in touch with a dedicated account manager who will guide you regarding licensing. |
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Views 16,776 Comparisons 14,006 Reviews 7 Average Words per Review 392 Avg. Rating 8.6 | Views 14,439 Comparisons 9,883 Reviews 6 Average Words per Review 462 Avg. Rating 9.2 |
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| Cloudflare | Imperva |
Overview | |
Cloudflare is the leading performance and security company helping to build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers more than 9 million Internet applications. More than 10 trillion Internet requests flow through Cloudflare’s network each month, accounting for nearly 10% of all Internet requests globally. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. | Imperva Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery service that protects websites and safeguards web applications and their data from attacks, and improves their performance by enhancing user experience. Incapsula includes a security platform with a web application firewall, DDoS mitigation, content delivery network, and global load balancer to maximize performance. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Trusted by over 9,000,000 Internet Applications and APIs, including Nasdaq, Zendesk, Crunchbase, Steve Madden, OkCupid, Cisco, Quizlet, Discord and more. | Hitachi, BNZ, Bitstamp, Moz, InnoGames, BTCChina, Wix, LivePerson, Zillow and more. |
Top Industries | |
Marketing Services Firm18% Financial Services Firm18% Engineering Company18% Energy/Utilities Company18% Software R&D Company25% Comms Service Provider9% Retailer9% Media Company8% | Financial Services Firm16% Non Tech Company16% Real Estate/Law Firm8% Media Company8% Software R&D Company26% Financial Services Firm15% Comms Service Provider9% Media Company6% |
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