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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) is based on technology acquired with Incapsula and the former WebSphere WAF.N/A

    Mashery (now part of Boomi)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMashery, for a time sold as TIBCO Cloud API Management, was an API management solution whose former capabilities have been added to Boomi's enterprise platform.N/A
    Pricing
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Feature
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    -
    Ratings
    Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    6.9
    23 Ratings
    20% below category average
    API access control00 Ratings8.423 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies00 Ratings7.723 Ratings
    API usage data00 Ratings7.223 Ratings
    API user onboarding00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    API versioning00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging00 Ratings6.522 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
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    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    7.6
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)Mashery (now part of Boomi)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Imperva, a Thales company
    I recommend Imperva specially if you have a big environment with thousand of websites because of its ease to use and availability. Imperva delivers a reliable solution with great capability to contain cyber attacks and even fraud preventions in some cases. The only scenario it's less appropriate is if your focus is anti fraud instead of a solution to block cyber attacks.
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    Mashery is great when it comes to deployment to your own datacenter and when it comes to managing third party API's like Salesforce using Mashery Cloud version. I would be a little bit more careful when deploying it on Kubernetes as it was not designed for it. New version 5 is re-architected to run more on natively on Kubernetes, but we have not tested it yet.
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    Pros
    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Block some dynamic attacks such as SQL injection.
    • Block unfriendly accesses based on geographic source.
    • Helps us implement SSL in cases where the original server can't (yet).
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    • Easy integration of the TIBCO Cloud Mashery developer portal allows simple onboarding and user and application management.
    • Configuration of TIBCO Cloud Mashery is both flexible and focused to address the main tasks for an API Management solution.
    • The built-in OAuth Token capabilities provide a quick start to properly manage application access.
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    Cons
    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Attack Correlation Validation - This specific policy produces a lot of false positives as well as the SQL injection policies. Of course it is difficult to tell what a legitimate query is on a public facing web app.
    • Profiling - I tend to spend more time than any other feature tuning the Web App Profiles. Plugins are used to help cope with this, but on extremely large web apps we are forced to turn off the profiling feature.
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    • The "Control Center" admin dashboard is not performant. We have a lot of configuration data in Mashery (many endpoints, many plans, many users, many keys, etc.) and the website struggles with the volume of data it has to deal with.
    • Their systems have limitations that make it more difficult for us to operate the way we would like. For example, there is a limit to the number of API Definitions we can create, as well as a limit to the number of Endpoints we can define in a Plan.
    • Their support organization leaves a lot to be desired. Responses are slow, and when they do come they are often inadequate. We have to re-phrase the question to get them to answer it differently, or we have to repeatedly follow up to ask for additional clarifying information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Imperva, a Thales company
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    Ease of use.
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    Usability
    Imperva, a Thales company
    It's easy and works great. The onboarding process, although easy, can sometimes take too long for SSL and domain validation, but its not a big deal.
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    Discontinued Products
    i find some of the package adding and key are complex . UI experience is bad . Every step need front and backward navigation too much. It would be better if endpoint itself contain package and key addiction option
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    Support Rating
    Imperva, a Thales company
    We haven't needed support from Imperva since implementation. But during that time, their personnel were very quick to respond to questions. Since then, it's been largely doing its thing for us (which is exactly what we'd hoped).
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    Support has been good overall.
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    Implementation Rating
    Imperva, a Thales company
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Initially it was difficult to understand . after few day , it was easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    Imperva, a Thales company
    I believe there's no comparison as Imperva is a much more reliable and powerfull WAF. AWS WAF lacks of several features Imperva have and is not that simple to configure neither have a clean web console. I consider Imperva WAF a whole superior level of cyber security solution and it's consider to be one of the leader in this segment.
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    I've really only looked at Mashery since it has been around a very long time and has a rich feature set. I do know our platform teams are looking into AWS gateway but not sure this product has everything we need.
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    Return on Investment
    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Meet compliance requirements - Check.
    • Better Insight into web application - Absolutely great, checks all the traffic against RFC standards and will alert on common development mistakes that duplicate application traffic or provide attack vectors for potential attackers.
    • Have had several issues blocking a customer without producing alerts, while it happened only one week out of 2 years of working with the devices, it did produce a lot of headaches.
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    Discontinued Products
    • As a API Mediation layer it has helped with the troublesome port setup with internal and external clients. Meaning it made that easy to the client that they know where to go for access to an API.
    • The interactive documentation is very well put together and has reduced the time that developers have to go back and forth with each other to figure how to call the API.
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