We performed a comparison between Cloudflare and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."The most valuable feature is the web application firewall."
"The DDoS protection is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Easier http to https redirect using page rules"
"The solution provides good load balancing and protection against DDoS attacks."
"Generally, I am satisfied with this product."
"It is easier to configure and develop documentation to see how we have configured firewalls."
"The solution offers the flexibility to control configuration rules."
"What I like best about Cloudflare is that my company can use it to trace and manage applications and monitor traffic. The solution tells you if there's a spike in traffic. Cloudflare also sends you a link to check your equipment and deployment and track it through peering, so it's a valuable tool."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic reports on new databases, which gives us up-to-date inventory management."
"They have very good documentation and knowledgebase resources that add to the depth of their support."
"The cyber intelligence feature is the most valuable."
"The product’s most valuable feature is real-time highlights."
"Currently, we have audit features for auditing databases, for example, granular auditing, which we really enjoy. We've been using it to check what users do."
"It has a user-friendly interface. It is a stable and scalable product."
"The discovery module provides good visibility."
"The solution is very stable."
"The product needs to improve its automation."
"For the free and Pro plans, Cloudflare could use a simple bot to provide information to users. This would improve support, especially for less advanced users who utilize the free components."
"We're facing challenges due to an upgrade in the machine learning model. The problem arises from some users abusing the APIs, resulting in an influx of suspicious traffic. Cloudflare's learning model mistakenly identifies this traffic as human. Consequently, it assigns it a higher trust score, akin to legitimate human traffic, causing complications in our architecture. Previously, such traffic would have been categorized as suspicious, enabling us to apply appropriate blocking rules. However, we encounter difficulties distinguishing between genuine and suspicious traffic with the new categorization. Despite these challenges, overall, Cloudflare remains the preferred solution compared to Azure, AWS CloudFront, and Google Cloud Armor."
"The solution could work at being less expensive. It costs a lot to use it."
"It would be good if Cloudflare could have more servers for better traffic routing or an increase in the traffic routed. This is what I'd like to improve in Cloudflare."
"In the last two years, there has been a certain amount of downtime when using the VDM."
"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."
"Technical support is lacking."
"Performance can be slow under heavy loads, but this should be adjusted by scaling."
"Imperva SecureSphere Database Security could improve the database defense feature called camouflage. This feature was responsible for the data mask but now it does not work well and we need another solution. All our banks have teams that are regarded with care and they need to mask sensitive data in order to provide testing to developers."
"They can maybe look at its pricing model. Its pricing could be cheaper for the African countries or developing economies."
"The firewall features are not very strong and should be improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"The only challenge I see is that SecureSphere is deployed on servers or databases which are held on physical infrastructure. However, there are databases which are hosted on cloud platforms and Imperva has a separate tool altogether for that, not SecureSphere."
"Integration with other databases or third-party products would be useful."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
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Cloudflare is ranked 1st in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 56 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews. Cloudflare is rated 8.4, while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cloudflare writes "It's easy to set up because you point the DNS to it, and it's working in under 15 minutes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security writes "The fine-grained auditing available on the platform makes life easier and helps explain anything happening in your database". Cloudflare is most compared with Akamai, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS, AWS Shield and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, whereas Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect and Informatica Persistent Data Masking.
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