We performed a comparison between Akamai and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two CDN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a scalable and reliable solution."
"Akamai provides low-latency throughput."
"This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"Akamai is leveraged by many top-level businesses, ensuring reliability and support in case of outages or issues."
"The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"We can see how much traffic can be downloaded on the portal."
"The solution is very sustainable and flexible."
"The worldwide reach of the Akamai CDN is one of the key values of this CDN and the agreements worldwide that they keep running."
"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."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"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."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"On the real time, you can see live traffic, which is flowing into our website."
"On the activity log, I can see the exact details, the visit, and the threat."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is that it is easy to configure."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"Akamai's configuration part is an area of concern where improvements are required to make the process easy."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"Sometimes a little hard to navigate around the user console."
"Caching strategy is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution where improvements are required."
"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."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"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."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"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."
Akamai is ranked 3rd in CDN with 18 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 5th in CDN with 74 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". 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". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly and AWS Global Accelerator, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro, AWS WAF and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Akamai vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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