We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiWeb and Imperva SecureSphere Database Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The support is quite good."
"The anti-defacement feature is very useful because it looks for web changes over time to protect pages."
"It is easy to install and to maintain."
"We find that it is quite stable and reliable."
"It can scale well."
"The WAF profiles has been effective at mitigating web-based threats."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the web application firewall (WAF)."
"The integration with CounterBreach is great."
"It has a lot of different components that cover the needs of our customers."
"The integration is great."
"It has a user-friendly interface. It is a stable and scalable product."
"The audit feature is great. It is totally encrypted."
"There are three major main use cases of this solution. The first one is to fulfill compliance regulations. Customers—especially the banks, health sector, and manufacturing—need to comply with the regulations in different countries. They have to fulfill compliance regulations around the privacy of data. In order to fulfill those requirements, they're using Imperva. It helps them to fulfill these requirements, and they are not fined by the regulators. That is the first use case why people buy Imperva."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the automatic reports on new databases, which gives us up-to-date inventory management."
"It may be better if it were easier to create roles."
"Fortinet FortiWeb is not scalable. You'll need more budget to change the hardware."
"The GUI could be better. It's limited."
"They can introduce a scaled-down version for the SMB market. It would be very competitive in the environment."
"The interface could have the interdependent elements arranged sequentially and wizards that go through most common deployment actions."
"In terms of performance, it needs to be more robust."
"The solution is not very scalable, to scale up would require another deployment with a new appliance and a change to the network."
"The product’s stability could be improved."
"Imperva SecureSphere Database Security can improve something in all the versions I have used."
"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."
"I have worked with IBM before, and I prefer its ease of deployment and management. Imperva SecureSphere Database Security has tricky deployment, whereas IBM's deployment is straightforward because of the UI."
"I would like to see integration such that there is support for different kinds of environments, such as on-premises versus cloud."
"Reporting could be improved."
"The updates could be better."
"Its reporting can be improved. The reporting feature is currently not good enough for our clients."
"It would be better to update the solution by using a GUI that guides me, rather than through a CLI."
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Fortinet FortiWeb is ranked 4th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 83 reviews while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is ranked 2nd in Database Security with 52 reviews. Fortinet FortiWeb is rated 8.0, while Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiWeb writes "Cost-effective, easy to configure, and works very well as a single solution for multiple environments". 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". Fortinet FortiWeb is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Fortinet FortiADC, AWS WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall, whereas Imperva SecureSphere Database Security is most compared with IBM Security Guardium Data Protection, Oracle Audit Vault, DataSunrise Database Security, Trustwave DbProtect and Arbor DDoS.
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