CDN functionalities are secondary and cannot be compared to a top-level CDN.
The WebGUI interface of the dashboard is very improvable. They have been changing the UX for years and it is disjointed and with services that have not yet been migrated.
The analysis of WAF attack logs is insufficient. It is difficult to analyze attacks of past hours, event filters are missing. It is complicated to analyze the chronology of an attack.
There are extra modules to improve the attack logs analysis but they are expensive and add little.

Likelihood to Recommend

I recommend it as a WAF, but not as a CDN. There are better CDNs, in my case I use transparentCDN (now www.transparentedge.eu) and Edgecast (now Verizon CDN).

April 28, 2017

Incapsula, reliable, secure, and fast

Josh Dix

Systems Administrator

Provident Funding Associates L.P. (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Review Source

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Incapsula, for us at Provident, adds compensating controls for performance and security. We use Incapsula for our whole organization with all external and some internal-use-but-public sites. We are very impressed with Incapsula's reliability and security as we have had no known issues during our years of use in the organization with their service. Penetration testers have found it so frustrating we allow them to circumvent the service in order to better test and secure our applications and infrastructure.

Pros and Cons

Reliability / Uptime
Security

Web Interface could be better, no overall site details/performance views.
API is limited if you do not have a reseller account unnecessarily.
Alerting / Reports / Bot

Likelihood to Recommend

Incapsula really exceeds if you have a very large amount of traffic, it is a truly durable and resilient WAF. Global load balancing, increased security, added caching, smaller number of sites (but very important)? Then I would recommend Incapsula. Incapsula is always additive to features your infrastructure has and it does those well, so I would always advise using it if your site has high traffic, is business critical, or accesses sensitive information through a SQL backend.

Imperva CDN Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (2): 80%
8.0

What is Imperva CDN?

Imperva CDN provides intelligent and caching controls, content and network optimization, application delivery rules, and high website availability, and is available as part of the Imperva FlexProtect. The Imperva CDN is based on resources acquired with Incapsula.

Imperva CDN Features

Supported: DDoS Protection
Supported: Content Delivery Network
Supported: Website Security
Supported: Load Balancer

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Business	$299	per month
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Deployment Types	SaaS
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No

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