We performed a comparison between F5 Silverline Managed Services and Imperva Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's a good front end for public infrastructure"
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is the benchmark performance."
"The most valuable feature is flexibility."
"Its flexibility is the most valuable because it is a managed service. The good part is that you don't need to set it up. It just needs DNS routing, which is the easiest thing. Our client had Akamai for certain websites because they were using CDN features. They had NetScaler on the internal zone, F5 AWAFs on the data centers, and no WAF at all in the cloud. One of the main activities of the project was to move all these policies into a single WAF so that we could control and use that as a choke point. That exercise itself was very easy because it was a managed service and F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall does that for you. That's the best thing about F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall. It is easy to apply policies on-premises. If you have AWAF on-premises and you want to replicate some policies on F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, other than the policies that it applies by itself, it is easy because you have a team that supports it. F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall works perfectly fine. It pretty much does everything that an Advanced WAF on-premises should do."
"The product’s UI is easy to understand."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is its cloud-native functionality and the high level of protection it provides."
"The most valuable feature of F5 Silverline Managed Services is it becomes similar to a distributed architecture."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"It has threat intelligence and we are using Incapsula. With threat intelligence, we can separate HTTP and HTTPS traffic. We can use Incapsula to send all the threat intelligence to the WAF."
"The solution is stable."
"Data masking is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"There are many features. There is ease of deployment. You can deploy the Imperva Web Application Firewall in two to three minutes. After that, you have to set the policies. For setting policies, you have toggle buttons. You can turn something on or off."
"Very intuitive and granular configuration - It does not require much time, or advanced knowledge, for configuration and maintenance."
"It has fewer false positives"
"Very scalable and very stable firewall for web applications, with a good interface in its cloud version. Mitigation is its most valuable feature. The technical support for this product is also good."
"The configurability of the tools and the ease of operation to be the most valuable feature of Imperva."
"In terms of the scalability, this part is always so confusing because they are checking for packet count. Also, after an attack, they said that the throughput must be from gigabits but then I check my bandwidth and it is already done in gigabits. So it is a little bit confusing."
"We need to have support for cloud protection, which is not offered by this solution."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."
"The price is high in comparison to other products."
"F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall, being a new product in the market or comparatively related to a new product, currently supports less number of PoPs. They should introduce more PoPs. The current number of PoPs that they have is around 10 or 12, which is still relatively less as compared to 2,400 plus PoPs that Akamai offers. The user latency or the number of hops a user needs before reaching the actual web application is less in Akamai because it has its internal fabric to route the traffic. They need to spin up more data to increase its traffic handling capability. They can also include the bot detection capability, though it is a pretty advanced functionality. If they could include DataDome like functionality, that is, bot prediction, then F5 Silverline Web Application Firewall will be top-notch in the market."
"I just hope the price can be cheaper."
"F5 Silverline Managed Services can improve by reducing the price."
"You need to have Linux knowledge in order to use the shell."
"I would like to improve the tool's turnaround time in terms of support."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall could improve the console by making it easier to use."
"One potential improvement for Imperva is enhancing its alert system."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
"They recently separated the WAF and the DAM management gateways in order for each of these to be managed from different areas, so I believe it now requires additional investments for what was previously a single complete solution."
"Sometimes our web application firewall will slow down."
"It is complicated to integrate the solution's on-cloud version with other platforms."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is very expensive."
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F5 Silverline Managed Services is ranked 19th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 14 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 45 reviews. F5 Silverline Managed Services is rated 7.6, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of F5 Silverline Managed Services writes "It is flexible and lets you easily apply policies, but it needs to support more PoPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". F5 Silverline Managed Services is most compared with Cloudflare, Arbor DDoS, AWS WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door. See our F5 Silverline Managed Services vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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