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F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF vs. Imperva Application Firewall

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AF5 Networks offers the Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) to provide bot defense, advanced application protection, anti-bot SDK, and other features.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
    Pricing
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFImperva Application Firewall
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFImperva Application Firewall
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFImperva Application Firewall
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    F5
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    Imperva, a Thales company
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    20 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
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    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Score9.2 out of 10
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
    Score9.2 out of 10
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFImperva Application Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (21 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAFImperva Application Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    I believe that in industrial environments like ours where we have to have bare metal devices near the production environment combined with hybrid cloud, that is a good platform. That's a good use case. It optimizes traffic. It helps us stay more secure in our data centers. Now with regards to that are fully operating in the cloud, I'm not really sure if we would make the same decision considering the option that I said to have something that is self-provision to avoid too much management of virtual machines on the cloud. So that's an area of improvement.
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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
    F5
    • So the product definitely is helping us for sudden attacks through DDOS, some injection ingestion into UI URLs, and definitely it's capturing those and I definitely see that as an advantage for us. They can stop the hackers from using our endpoints.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Security
    • Reporting
    • Oversight
    • Redirections
    • Rules
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    Cons
    F5
    • The UI for events. E.g., clicking the "Accept" button does nothing.
    • Traffic learning suggestions are often very incorrect. We were originally suggested to use "Automatic" learning, and had to completely scrap the policy due to the suggestions.
    • "All in one" dashboard for viewing application URL/parameter overrides per policy.
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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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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    We just love work with f5
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    Imperva, a Thales company
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    Usability
    F5
    Most* of it is very intuitive and easy to use. The "Help" section is fairly fantastic. See some of my other comments about things like the "Traffic Learning" section being wildly wrong sometimes, and also the event logs with UI buttons that don't do anything. Overall though, it's an excellent product.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
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    Support Rating
    F5
    Highly knowledgeable engineers who understand complex networking and application-delivery issues.


    Strong escalation paths — once a case reaches senior engineers, resolutions are fast and accurate.


    Comprehensive documentation and many self-service resources for troubleshooting.


    Clear communication with well-structured updates throughout the ticket lifecycle.


    Excellent for critical incidents, with reliable guidance during high-severity outages.


    Deep product expertise across BIG-IP, ASM/Advanced WAF, GTM/DNS, and modern F5 services.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
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    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    -Stable data path equals to less crashes -Almost all the features working as expected -Provides more granular controls in allowing false positives -Request evaluation is accurate -Irules feature is a plus
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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
    F5
    • One impact F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF has on our organization's overall business objectives is that F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF is security sensitive
    • Another impact F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF has on our organization's overall business objectives is the F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF blocking feature
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    Imperva, a Thales company
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