Imperva DDoS Scalability

Syed Ubaid Ali Jafri - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Cyber Defense & Offensive Security at Habib Bank Limited

We never encountered any scalability issues.

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TF
CTO at Klaatu IT Security Ltd

It's very, very scalable. They've just added a lot more capacity to it. It's something like six or nine terabytes per second of protection capacity, which is more than the biggest attack there's ever been by quite a margin.

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FS
Vice President, Global IT Security at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is just based on the number of licenses and in our case, we've maxed out our licenses. They are extremely expensive, and therefore it would be costly to scale.

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RiaanDu Preez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cyber Security Specialist Architect at Cyberlinx

I rate the solution ten out of ten for scalability.

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MB
Manager- Secure Web Defense- Perimeter Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Imperva DDoS is a scalable product.

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MG
Application Security Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We need to know more about the scalability ourselves. We are working on it now to see what we can do. The scalability is inherently good because it is on the cloud. There is nothing much to worry about with the scalability part. But the hands-on experience with it is something we are still exploring.  

There seems to be no limit to scaling the product from the perspective of adding applications. We just put our product on the market. Until and unless the users complain to us, then we will not know if there are growing pains. It is too early in our experience with the product to get the kind of feedback that we need from them.  

We have had only one serious issue after onboarding 50 applications. For one application, we have had some performance and stability issues. It was just one time over the last six months where the problem was affecting the stability. For that one application, we had severe performance issues, and we rolled it back. We are still investigating that issue. We do not know the reason yet that we had a problem with it. We do not know how many of the applications that we try to work will present problems like that. I saw problems with only two applications in total. One is application had an issue with image loading which was not as severe, and the other one was for performance issues. The performance issue was effecting web services.  

Scaling, as far as the number of users, is another type of scalability. Ultimately everybody who uses our services uses Incapsula in a sense by the end of the day. This is because every application has to go through Incapsula.  

We are also having to look at our own environment when considering scalability and trying to take Incapsula forward as far as we can with expansion. We have some issues with our infrastructure. All the infrastructure is not always optimally compatible with Incapsula. Because our infrastructure is not fit for Incapsula due to various reasons, we are working to resolve those issues. Those are not major things, but they are important to resolve and continue to scale, so we are working on it. It will take some time to identify everything and optimize the system. For example, if we implement something like having multiple authentications it comes with new challenges. In the end, it improves what we offer, but there are issues to consider along the way, and even before the implementation. 

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SB
Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

There are no scalability issues, but the custom SSL has a terrible price point that puts it out of range for our clients. If they need custom or EV SSL, they are paying significantly more than their overall hosting.

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Roi-Nahari - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at CyberApp

It is a scalable solution. It is suitable for medium and enterprise businesses.

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VM
Manager Technique at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Its capacity is okay for us, and we don't need to scale it or expand its usage.

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EW
CDN & Cybersecurity Engineer - Web performance & security at CDN Tech / Ecritel

Scalability is not a problem because it is a cloud. The provider manages this aspect for me.

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it_user623562 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Security Architect at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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MM
Senior Web Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees

Incapsula: The only issue so far is with the dashboard.

CloudFlare: I have not used it enough to provide useful information.

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it_user288354 - PeerSpot reviewer
President/General Manager with 51-200 employees

No - in a large scale attack, the protection scaled without problem.

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DC
IT Senior Manager at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

We implement the WAF production environment, or the web services, which is needed to provide traffic to the customer. We implement those services under the Incapsula WAF protection. 

We have about one thousand people using the solution globally.

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ClaudioColombo - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Sorint.Lab

Imperva DDoS is scalable.

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BI
Sales Executive at EVVO LABS

This is a scalable solution. We have data centers all over the world. The solution can be set up to be optimized wherever the clients are accessing.

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PC
IT Solutions Senior Manager at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

We have approximately 500 employees that are protected with this product.

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VE
Director at IT Big Bang

Scalability is fine and we haven't had any issues with resource consumption. 

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it_user817755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

No issues with scalability.

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VR
Solutions Architect at a security firm with 51-200 employees

The majority of our customers are enterprise businesses, with some SMB, but it depends on their budget, as well as their needs, and whether it is for security or compliance purposes.

Imperva is quite expensive for organizations that use it for compliance purposes. Other WAP solutions, such as Fortinet or Barracuda, which are slightly less expensive than Imperva, will be considered.

Imperva Incapsula is easy to scale.

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SA
Manager - IT Security at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Virtually all the banks in Nigeria, Ghana, East, and West Africa, are using Imperva. Of course, they are using it for various things, but for the most part, they use it for data security and application security and then also a little bit on the Incapsula platform.  

The scalability depends on the customer but there are really no features that a client will want to request that Imperva does not handle in terms of scalability. Of course, you cannot compare the size of the banks and the input and output demands of banking in Western European countries or the Americas with the needs of banking in Africa.  

For us, it is a good solution.  

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MS
Director Of Hosting Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use this solution as a crowd solution, a software service so we don't have any issues regarding its performance or scalability. Our IT administrators use Incapsula to maintain the solution because they have knowledge about how this protection works.

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it_user507306 - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Solutions Architect | Development Manager | Technical Business Analyst at Corporate SEO

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user302106 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Development Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

No issues with scalability thus far; we haven’t tried yet.

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JS
Senior Systems Engineer - Channel Manager at Exclusive GRP

The scalability is good, especially when you sell a solution that's in the cloud. That's easier to scale; you can just upgrade it. 

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it_user298446 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP R&D with 51-200 employees

No issues with the scalability.

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it_user182781 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

No problem with scalability.

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it_user277947 - PeerSpot reviewer
Online Marketing Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues with scalability.

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TZ
CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It's a scalable solution.

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BM
Sr Associate Information Security at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Scalability is pretty easy on the base platform. You just add another, and you're ready to go. We deal mostly with enterprise-level clients.

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it_user609369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nope; we have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user277953 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Director with 501-1,000 employees

No issues on that front as we haven’t needed to scale it.

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it_user510588 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Their Asia bandwidth, i.e. to China, sometimes has a lot of lag. And they take a long time to improve it, until they add a new ISP to improve the bandwidth.

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it_user279876 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager with 501-1,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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ST
Information Security Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Imperva is a scalable solution. We have about 20 users but it's protecting our main website.

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AJ
Technical Sales Director at Revere Technologies

The product is easily scalable. We currently work with five to six customers who are on this solution. They are organizations of mixed size from small to enterprise. There is no problem adjusting the scale up or down to meet their needs and budget.

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it_user569916 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Incapsula scales nicely.

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DS
Security Expert at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The scalability of the solution is okay. Companies can expand it if they need to.

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it_user162618 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at a security firm with 501-1,000 employees

No issues at all, it fulfills our expectations in terms of scalability.

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it_user570156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech company with 51-200 employees

None, all automatic.

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AP
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We haven't had any issues with the scalability the solution provides. If a company needs to scale this product they can do so pretty easily.

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it_user818130 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is not used at a high level, but we just put it in and configured it with our website. So, for the things that we have to run, it works just fine. I have no idea about any other scalability. However, it is just fine for the reason that we are using it.

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it_user574089 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user504216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We have a multitude of DNS names for essentially the same site. Despite that, we have to pay for each of these separately as different sites. This model is unfortunate for us but we find the service to be worth it. I could see this being a potential issue, while it is not yet.

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it_user304074 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales office at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

It meets our needs right now. In the following months we are well within our package, but in the long term, we have to see if the cost will go up too much for our project’s needs. We are well covered for now.

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SL
Associate Engineer - Network & Security at Connex Information Technologies

Imperva Incapsula is scalable.

We have two or three users in our company.

In order to increase our usage, We must publicize the fact that we have such a solution. I believe we had to use LinkedIn or some other solution to publish it. We need to inform our customers that we have a solution like this.

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it_user814458 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Business Development at Seguridad América
it_user298143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager, Software Development at a music company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user316611 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Information Security at IronFX Global Limited

No issues with scalability. You need not worry about scalability. Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features.

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it_user573036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Relations Coordinator at a marketing services firm

Not that I know of.

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it_user300492 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Engineer/Major Accounts with 51-200 employees

Scalability has been pretty good, our European traffic has doubled and our sales have gone up along with our stability.

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it_user601449 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Product Development and Architecture at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user573036 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Relations Coordinator at a marketing services firm

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user570582 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user571110 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Adminisrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
it_user571794 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
it_user638760 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administator at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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Buyer's Guide
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
March 2024
Find out what your peers are saying about Imperva, Cloudflare, NETSCOUT and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection. Updated: March 2024.
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