F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) vs. Imperva Application Firewall

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Score 8.9 out of 10
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F5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.N/A
Imperva Application Firewall
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Imperva 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
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Considered Both Products
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Chose F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Ease of use and depth of other integrated offerings
Imperva Application Firewall

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Best Alternatives
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Imperva Application Firewall
Small Businesses
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
F5 Advanced WAF
F5 Advanced WAF
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Imperva Application Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(51 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Imperva Application Firewall
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
So a lot of companies that have a digital side and they have a lot of applications in the cloud, this is one of those areas that it can protect the net so it can lock 'em down, it'll build a baseline so you understand what that application's doing. So if it sees something not normal, it'll get protected against that.
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Imperva
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
  • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
  • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
  • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
  • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
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Imperva
  • Security
  • Reporting
  • Oversight
  • Redirections
  • Rules
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Cons
F5
  • So we just had some performance issues when it comes to routing. Because the web application firewall sits in front of our website, which is hosted on-site, we had some trouble with the VGP protocols between the two sites and it took us a while to figure it out. So that is probably one area where we could improve. Otherwise, when it comes to the WAF functionality itself, it's really good.
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Imperva
  • The portal has recently been redesigned, finding previous sections will take time to familarise
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Alternatives Considered
F5
Basically, Cloudflare is a more economical solution at the level of DNS balancing, easy to use with a few simple clicks and that has gained an advantage in the market, however, compared to F5, it falls short of the entire protection panorama that the solution provides since F5 does not It's just DNS that goes further and that's where it differentiates and stands out.
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Imperva
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
  • Accelerated time to value as it was a requirement for a workload being provisioned on that cloud
  • As an existing f5 customer, access to their solutions integrator (GridZero) made the sizing, licensing, purchases, and downloading of the software very quick and painless
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Imperva
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