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    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

    NGINX Plus

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ANGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.

    $849

    per month billed annually

    Pricing
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)NGINX Plus
    Editions & Modules
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    Team
    $849
    per month billed annually
    Advanced
    $2,099
    per month billed annually
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    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)NGINX Plus
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)NGINX Plus
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    Imperva, a Thales company
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)NGINX Plus
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) and NGINX Plus
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    Ratings
    NGINX Plus
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    IDE support00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Security management00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Administration and management00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Application server performance00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    Installation00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance00 Ratings8.25 Ratings
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    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)NGINX Plus
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    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Oracle WebLogic Server
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    NGINX
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)NGINX Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    9.1
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)NGINX Plus
    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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    F5
    Makes our life easy as application admins in securing our applications and making them accessible. We can easily add an application within a few minutes and define the backend servers right away.
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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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    F5
    • APIGW
    • Policy Enforcement
    • Centrally Manage API Traffic
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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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    F5
    • An AI bot would be cool to help build config files
    • More webinars for advanced NGINX Plus would be great
    • GUI tool... might already be one available
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Imperva, a Thales company
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    No reason not to renew it, we are happy with it.
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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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    F5
    Very easy to use
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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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    F5
    We had an issue after upgrading from RHEL 7 to 8, and there were some issues that the security team imposed upon the platform with a scanning tool. We also had a VXLAN environment that was not properly sending a gratuitous arp to the network. NGINX support was instrumental to speedily resolving our issue.
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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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    F5
    The API and dashboard alone make NGINX Plus a better choice.
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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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    F5
    • We are planning by using NGINX it can greatly reduce our OPEX by 50% "just our own running APIGW" the cascading effects in the long run will be much more.
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