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)."I have had a positive experience with Imperva Web Application Firewall's tech support so far. They are knowledgeable and respond on time."
"Compared to other web application firewalls in the market, Imperva does things in the most accurate way."
"The solution is scalable."
"We can prevent attacks or issues even before they happen."
"Imperva WAF's strongest features are the detection of web application threats and vulnerabilities in the source code."
"There are a number of features that are valuable such as the account takeover and various antivirus features."
"The most valuable features of Imperva Web Application Firewall are the monitoring of databases and the dashboards are easy to understand."
"The solution integrates seamlessly with other tools and has a good alert mechanism."
"The solution has an up-to-date data repository to deal with external threats."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall could improve the console by making it easier to use."
"The support for the on-premises version needs improvement."
"The Imperva Web Application Firewall automations are good, but there is still room for improvement with them."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall is a good system, but we found that the visibility of the diverse-path server, e.g. where the traffic is coming from, the different IPs, etc., needs improvement."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall could improve the API integration. It was complex for us. Additionally, The onboarding could be better."
"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."
"It should be more user-friendly. Like other web solutions, it would be helpful to be able to easily do policy configuration and identification inside the application. Understanding the in-depth configuration of a policy is somewhat difficult for an engineer, and they can improve that."
"The only disadvantage of Imperva is that it is a pretty costly solution."
"I'm not convinced that it's necessary the best solution going forward in the future."
"It would be an improvement if the management dashboards were not reliant upon Java."
"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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