We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."ASM for WAF."
"It also has an AVR feature: application, visibility, and recording. It's good for customers looking for what is actually happening in their network and where the latency is."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable feature I found is iRules."
"Good application firewall."
"Traffic Learning is the most valuable feature."
"BIG-IP LTM is completely stable, and its performance is good."
"F5's attack signatures and automation are the most valuable features. The disaster recovery capabilities are also excellent. You don't need to do anything. It has automatic failover from production."
"The beauty of it is that it provides segregation of duties. Typically, in the traditional environment, DBAs administer the database, and they have too much access. We are in the process of implementing other Oracle solutions, and it brings some kind of segregation. Just because someone is a DBA does not mean that he or she should have access to all of the data. Some of the data can be masked so that privacy and security are enhanced, especially when it is customer data for an institution like a bank."
"The cyber intelligence feature is the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic reports on new databases, which gives us up-to-date inventory management."
"This is a stable product."
"Flexible reporting allows for customization that keeps the admins from having to interact with system automation."
"The most valuable features of Imperva SecureSphere Database Security are vulnerability assessment, enrichment security policy, and security"
"The integration is great."
"The technical support for Imperva is super, super, super."
"It requires a particular skill or training before being able to manage it."
"It reaches a point where scaling is no longer possible."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"The ASM administration is quite complex. The topic itself is pretty complex, so it is not easy to provide a nice, clean interface. There are a lot of references and dependencies in-between the different subareas."
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will be a challenge for us."
"The solution's initial setup process was quite complex. I"
"The license terms for "non-commercial" will are challenging for us."
"I'd like to see some sort of solution for storage."
"Improvements can be made in data enrichment and enhancing the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for a better user experience."
"Database security from the access management perspective could be better."
"Sometimes the reports are cumbersome, and you have to drill down to get more information."
"There is sometimes lost communication and it can take a lot of troubleshooting to solve."
"Integration with other databases or third-party products would be useful."
"I would like to see integration such that there is support for different kinds of environments, such as on-premises versus cloud."
"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."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". 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". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect and jSonar.
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