We performed a comparison between Imperva Web Application Firewall and Symantec Web Application Firewall 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 solution is very scalable. It is one of the most important features. You can also expand resources and features as well."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are performance and flexibility. We can extend or customize the box itself."
"The solution integrates seamlessly with other tools and has a good alert mechanism."
"Learning mode and custom policies are helpful features."
"The most important feature I have found to be the ease in how to do the backup and restores."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The tool's UI is complicated. It would be best to have a more accessible UI dashboard to make the job easier."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall can improve by adding more features to the dashboard. increasing the visibility of the real-time events, besides configuring the administration itself."
"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."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall could improve the console by making it easier to use."
"I would like to improve the tool's turnaround time in terms of support."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is very expensive."
"Some of the features should be included in the next release is a file integrating monitoring tool. This feature should be improved."
"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"Sometimes scanning slows down the endpoints."
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Imperva Web Application Firewall is ranked 6th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 45 reviews while Symantec Web Application Firewall is ranked 37th in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Imperva Web Application Firewall is rated 8.6, while Symantec Web Application Firewall is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Imperva Web Application Firewall writes "Offers simulation for studying infrastructure and hybrid infrastructure protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Web Application Firewall writes "An excellent up-to-date data repository handling external threats successfully". Imperva Web Application Firewall is most compared with AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiWeb and Azure Front Door, whereas Symantec Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and WAPPLES.
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