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Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) vs. SonicWall Web Application Firewall

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    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

    SonicWall WAF Series

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASonicWall offers their WAF Series, of web application firewalls.N/A
    Pricing
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)SonicWall WAF Series
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)SonicWall WAF Series
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)SonicWall WAF Series
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)SonicWall WAF Series
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)SonicWall WAF Series
    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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    SonicWall
    I will recommend SonicWall depending of the size of the company and the knowledge of the personal is going to administer the firewall. I deploy those in small office settings where manageability was relative non existence.
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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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    SonicWall
    • Content updates are automatic content lists of applications, URLs, virtual threats.
    • Great visualization through graphics of traffic and threats.
    • One of the best web content filters on the market.
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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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    SonicWall
    • VPN implementation
    • Geo block rules
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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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    SonicWall
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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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    SonicWall
    Technical support is a little expensive but it works. Any technical problem or not, SonicWall support helps in solving the problems. The SLA is fast and the service is also cordial, functional, and straight to the point. Support is essential to keep the tool always up-to-date with lists of malware, URLs, attacks, and others.
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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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    SonicWall
    Both products has their pro and cons. However in term of subscription and pricing for a small office, this offered better ROI as the office didn't want to spend too much and have something relative easy to manage.
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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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    SonicWall
    • More accurate analysis with the best usage reports and graphs
    • Reduction of virtual attacks from blocks
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