We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiADC and Imperva Web Application Firewall 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 product has flexible and interesting licensing options."
"Key features include SSL Offloading, VM availability, and L7 load balancing."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"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."
"Because ADC is the intermediary between the servers and the end-user application, it gives thorough information about the traffic, what the problem is."
"TSL and SSL offloading are both very good features."
"It's a good product because it supports all the features that ADC solutions in the market can support, like F5 solutions, for example, such as the LTM of F5."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is stable."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is a highly stable solution and is very mature."
"The configurability of the tools and the ease of operation to be the most valuable feature of Imperva."
"The features I have found most valuable with Imperva Web Application Firewall are account takeover protection, advanced bot protection, and API security."
"The most valuable feature of Imperva, in addition to its strong knowledge base, is its effective protection for web applications."
"Learning mode and custom policies are helpful features."
"The WAF itself has been very valuable to me because it has such a complete range of features. Another reason why I like it is because it also takes care of the total overview of the traffic over the network."
"Imperva WAF's strongest features are the detection of web application threats and vulnerabilities in the source code."
"The solution should improve finding false positives and false negatives. There are a lot of false positives."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is a mismatch between the number of features they are offering and the device capacity on how much it can handle."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"I had a terrible experience with Fortinet support. I only used support once when I bought the solution. I got no response for two days. However, I believe that it's no longer the case. Fortinet solutions have problems when they're launched. For example, we had issues with Fortinet's authenticator when it came out. We also had trouble with FortiNAC in the beginning."
"The user interface could be more friendly and CLI could be more like that of Fortigate."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The Imperva Web Application Firewall automations are good, but there is still room for improvement with them."
"I think that better bot protection is needed in this solution."
"The reporting is missing some features, such as: only two export formats, and the time period does not include the last day, week, year."
"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is very expensive."
"It's a complicated tool to keep."
"I'd like the option to pick your bot protection."
"The only disadvantage of Imperva is that it is a pretty costly solution."
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Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews while Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 46 reviews. Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8, while Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6. 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 Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler and Kemp LoadMaster, whereas Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door.
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