We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is easily deployable and has great functionality."
"The product’s most valuable features are LTM and WAF."
"The solution is very straightforward. The usability is great."
"Its performance and ease of use are valuable."
"We use three main features. The first one is access control. The second feature we use is called IP intelligence. Finally, we have a DDoS safety feature."
"We use the solution for load balancing and WAF (web application firewall)."
"CGNAT is one of its strong areas."
"It is stable."
"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."
"Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go."
"The technical support is excellent."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"It is a stable solution."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"Simplifies putting everything in code."
"The solution’s initial setup is not easy."
"F5 could provide a distributed cloud version."
"The solution's UI could be improved."
"Firstly, geolocation currently relies on manual updates. It has to move to automatic updates. There are no automatic updates for this feature. If some IPs, countries, or service providers move to another country, now you will be allow IPs that you previously denied. This is because you depend on the database, which doesn't update automatically. This is really a very important area that they need to improve."
"F5 BIG-IP AFM can improve the reporting interface in relation to advanced troubleshooting depending on CLI. They should have enhanced troubleshooting with the use of GUI."
"We needed to protect the database but the solution didn't offer a certain feature to do so."
"Deployment times vary according to the customer. It needs to be heavily configured. You need to look and you need to observe the behavior of the traffic before you can start configuring everything. It can take time."
"The product is expensive."
"A limited tool if you're looking to customize."
"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."
"I would like to see automated reporting to improve visibility."
"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"The cost could be lower; our end clients need to have a high budget to purchase this solution."
"There’s nothing that’s missing in terms of features."
"Users would benefit from better documentation. There is official documentation, but sometimes we need more detail. We have some use cases that are not so run of the mill. It would be great if there was a knowledge base that we could go to for more answers."
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F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is ranked 7th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 21 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is rated 8.4, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) writes "Straightforward setup with very good granularity and performance". 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". F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) is most compared with Arbor DDoS, AWS Shield and Radware DefensePro, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM) vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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