We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Although FortiADC has multiple features that I like, the global DNS is the most helpful. It is primarily useful for customers with huge environments and at least two data centers. FortiADC can act as your DNS server. It can check which data center has the lowest latency, and route traffic to that one. It's an intelligent DNS."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"The user interface is very easy and integrates with Sandbox easily."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."
"I like the solution's load balance with DNS intelligence."
"It is an effective threat mitigation tool."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"Provides Anti-DDoS protection, as well as other protections like SQL injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and antiscanner. These types of protection are valuable to the business due to the daily attacks on our portals, and that often cannot be seen without a tool like this."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"The complete solution is valuable for everything it delivers and the protection it offers."
"Fortinet has some drawbacks, and it can be a bit challenging to scale."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"It would be good if they built in a fully functional web application firewall."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The product’s price could be reduced. Also, some of its features need to be more advanced."
"Technical support and documentation could both be improved."
"The solution should integrate with something that looks at continuous security management."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"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."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"It's quite expensive."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"Imperva should have more points of presence in Africa."
Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 6th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 74 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". 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". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and Cloudflare, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and HAProxy.
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