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Akamai App & API Protector vs. Imperva Application Firewall

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    Akamai App & API Protector

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAkamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.N/A

    Imperva Application Firewall

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) stops attacks with near-zero false positives and a global SOC to ensure organizations are protected from the latest attacks minutes after they are discovered in the wild.N/A
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    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Enterprises
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    User Testimonials
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    Akamai
    Akamai Kona Site Defender KSD, works fine for any website or mobile application (Native/JDK), it can be used as a WAF, a rate limiting tool, or a bot management tool all in one, plus you will get all the benefits of the Akamai CDN (Content distribution network) as well
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    Incapsula as a Web Application Firewall is fantastic and very well priced compared to other products in the market. Load balancing supports management of multiple development and live environments, rewrite rules and behaviour rules to migrate traffic between sites and allow switching between different endpoints. The reporting features allow you too see the level of traffic instantly
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • Web Security
    • Bot managment
    • Rate Control
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Security
    • Reporting
    • Oversight
    • Redirections
    • Rules
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • Custom rules might be hard to configure
    • For some cases you will need to contact the Akamai team to adjust the backend
    • Interface might feel laggy if used in a non-powerful PC
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • The portal has recently been redesigned, finding previous sections will take time to familarise
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    Akamai
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    When going out to market we reviewed several products to compare. What we discovered was that Incapsula offered the best value and everything that we needed for a business of our size. We are able to "bolt on" bandwidth and functionality as the requirement grows, or scale down if no longer required.
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Fair Security investment
    • An attack impact would be higher
    • Support contract is not cheap
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