We performed a comparison between Fastly 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."Fastly uses configuration versioning, where you can deploy a new version in less than one minute."
"Support is good; the product works as advertised. We have a Slack connection with them. So we can basically ask for help, live, engage, and ring when they respond. Very quickly."
"Its initial setup process is straightforward."
"Compute@Edge features are valuable to me."
"The product helps our organization to access sites located in different regions quickly."
"Rate limiting is a good feature that protects from volumetric attacks."
"The configurability of the tools and the ease of operation to be the most valuable feature of Imperva."
"One good thing about Imperva Web Application Firewall is it can be on the cloud and also it can be on-premise."
"Configuration for different application sources is most valuable. We can segregate the traffic that an application is carrying and identify the sizing in Imperva."
"The solution has been quite stable. I have not seen any bugs at all."
"The most important feature I have found to be the ease in how to do the backup and restores."
"There are some features that are configured by default, so even without doing much, it can still provide a level of protection."
"The solution is cloud-based and offers us good uptime. It has combined web and API security. Therefore, with one license, you access both application security and also API security."
"I am impressed with the product's scalability, availability, easy management, and security. We were able to integrate the product with Azure and Sentinel."
"The solution's pricing could be better."
"Support is not that great."
"Stronger analytics would be helpful, like showing configurations that haven't served a certain amount of traffic in a while. With many properties, things can get lost track of - duplicates or unused configurations not properly decommissioned."
"It is missing a "staging" platform to deploy a test configuration with all of the real settings, which would allow us to properly test before putting it into production."
"The product should provide improved bot detection and management."
"Fastly's customer service area needs improvement."
"I would like to improve the tool's turnaround time in terms of support."
"I don't really use it and therefore can't speak to areas of improvement."
"It is complicated to integrate the solution's on-cloud version with other platforms."
"The UI interface needs improvement."
"The tool needs to improve CPU and storage memory."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is very expensive."
"I am looking for more data enrichment. We should have the ability to add our own custom data to the system, to the live traffic."
"I think that better bot protection is needed in this solution."
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Fastly is ranked 17th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 6 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 44 reviews. Fastly is rated 8.6, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fastly writes "An easily scalable and stable product that provides exceptional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". Fastly is most compared with Cloudflare, AWS WAF, Akamai, Edgio Global CDN and Radware Bot Manager, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM). See our Fastly vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall report.
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