We performed a comparison between Citrix Web App and API Protection and Imperva DDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability is good. If there is a problem, the load will be shifted to other sites automatically, which has been a good experience for us."
"I prefer this solution because of its user-friendly interface. I find it simple and close to what I am currently using, which is Citrix Fortiva Access for Multi-Factor Authentication. I appreciate the familiar user interface and troubleshooting tools it offers."
"Citrix Web App API Protection allows you to enable a blocking mode"
"We have good customer support."
"The work balancing applications are the most valuable feature."
"The solution's technical support is good."
"Citrix is good for application protection."
"When our primary link goes down I can still get to my Cisco devices and the NetScaler devices on-prem because of the SDN solution. If the internet connection at one of the branches goes down, we can still route them, they still get internet based on the SDN solution through one of the other sites. They can carry on working."
"The three-second service level agreement is already better than the competition."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."
"It's very pretty easy to onboard the URL."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"DDoS protection and WAF are the most valuable features. It is easy to deploy a service. It is easy and quick to deploy to a new website."
"On the site security, I can see which countries have incidents, whether it was a robot attack, a real human user, or non-human user."
"The configuration for its web application firewall is complicated."
"I am not an expert in this solution, but simplicity and user-friendly interfaces are crucial for me. I would appreciate advice from Citrix, particularly in the form of an interactive guide for API protection. It would be helpful if they could provide specific points and recommendations for cybersecurity, indicating areas that need attention or improvement. I find such interactive guidance valuable."
"Security could be improved because then I can get rid of my Cisco firewalls. If they improve the security then I could run my security, my proxy, my firewalling and my SDN solution on one device instead of having to have multiple devices."
"The product could be improved by making it easier to use and easier to implement."
"An area for improvement in Citrix Web App and API Protection is for it to give real-time notifications and alerts. It would be practical if the solution warns you if there's an attack or if the load or traffic volume increases or decreases. An additional feature I'd like to see in Citrix Web App and API Protection is a prediction or artificial intelligence on what is happening, for example, attacks."
"Their upgrades are not very backward compatible, and sometimes they mess up."
"Citrix Web App and API Protection could improve in the area of licensing"
"The solution's pricing is a big concern and should be improved."
"The product could use a broader scope in the area of policies."
"It would be better if we were able to manage and apply changes to multiple websites/web applications, and search WAF logs for multiple websites, via the Incapsula dashboard."
"Its price could be improved. It is quite expensive. It will be good if we could export the configuration. Currently, to control the configuration, we need to go to each website, which is not very convenient."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"Imperva DDoS does not provide version control."
"Incapsula services also provides load balancing services for their service IP address environment. So far, with monitoring their services, the IP address was only changed once."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"I miss being able to integrate the dashboard with other BI tools we are using. We have to export and import data to be able to present it, and doing so is a lot of work."
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Citrix Web App and API Protection is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 11 reviews while Imperva DDoS is ranked 19th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews. Citrix Web App and API Protection is rated 8.0, while Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Citrix Web App and API Protection writes "Affordable, provides advanced features, and protects applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". Citrix Web App and API Protection is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Azure Front Door, Fortinet FortiWeb and AWS WAF, whereas Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF. See our Citrix Web App and API Protection vs. Imperva DDoS report.
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