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F5 Bot Management vs Imperva Application Security Platform comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

F5 Bot Management
Ranking in Bot Management
13th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Imperva Application Securit...
Ranking in Bot Management
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
135
Ranking in other categories
CDN (3rd), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (3rd), Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (4th), API Security (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

Nadeem-Inamdar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Information Security Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Advanced behavioral analysis has improved bot threat visibility and informed mitigation strategies
The integration was a bit tough, but I find it to be a good solution. I do face problems with the integration within my existing system because there are many bots giving false positives. There is some room for improvement when it comes to performance. F5 Bot Management interface should be simplified significantly.
reviewer1247523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Solution ensures website availability and proactive threat mitigation
Over the seven years, the most valuable features of Imperva DDoS that I have found are related to DDoS attacks, which are a group of attacks, and not all of them can be resolved on the endpoint level before the website. Using the web firewall before the website is a common use case to protect against malicious requests to the website. I have utilized Imperva's Intelligent Traffic Filtering feature. This feature helps me understand how the attack is progressing and what is happening inside the requests to our website. It allows me to granularly grant or deny access to certain parts of our website. This helps when we know our customers and the types of requests that can be sent from them, enabling us to block some malicious requests. Imperva DDoS has User Behavior Analytics and Threat Intelligence on its board, and this helps us to be protected proactively. Imperva DDoS connects to its database of threats, storing whole information about attacks all over the world in one simple engine. Everyone can use this feature, which can connect to this engine and get information about what is going on at the world level. That is the way to be protected at the company's level. The integration capabilities of Imperva DDoS are very easy and simple. We can run it in 2 hours.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"F5 Bot Management provides the automation and dashboard that informs my approach to handling automated attacks."
"Final words : I was pretty much convinced by the Incapsula CDN, Overall it worked well without any glitches or breaking down the theme or stylesheet of my blog."
"The Web Application firewall is a valuable feature as the security features are mostly what we're interested in."
"The main benefit is the use case my clients find valuable, because for the product and security there is good API inspection, and if any abnormal API appears or there are any similarities due to changes, the API security features will catch that so allowed APIs will get access while others will be blocked."
"There are a number of features that are valuable such as the account takeover and various antivirus features."
"There is no need to have an in-house WAF to manage and maintain; we are now able to bring a new website live within minutes, without false positive alerts, and it has improved user/customer experience and website performance."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"It has helped a lot with working among, and creating a link between, different teams in my organization, of course I’m referring to security, networking and system application teams."
"Great product, it will not let you down!"
 

Cons

"I do face problems with the integration within my existing system because there are many bots giving false positives."
"I would rate the solution as an 8 out of 10, simply because of the difficulty of operation management. It's a complicated tool to keep."
"The salespeople tend to exaggerate its capabilities, which can cost you money if you don't verify the information."
"I would like to have support for SSL management and secure DNS."
"Although we're only using it for the accelerator part, the purging of files and the way this feature functions could use improvement."
"I am looking for more data enrichment. We should have the ability to add our own custom data to the system, to the live traffic."
"I am not sure if this application has a policy where you can create your custom policy and run it as our firewall. We should have some ability to also create some custom policy, then run it as a firewall."
"Because of all these services, you need to look at the company's services budget."
"Imperva now offers add-ons to add functionality, but I would like to see these included in the product, even if it would cost more."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is a license for this solution and we purchase the license annually with no additional fees."
"The cost is on par with other solutions such as Cloudflare and Akamai."
"​Although the pricing can be a little high, it is worth the protection and security that it offers.​"
"Pricing could be more competitive."
"It is a very affordable solution."
"We have an issue with Imperva Incapsula in the Iraqi market because of the high price."
"Imperva Web Application Firewall's pricing is expensive."
"It's an excellent product, but it can be very costly."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business84
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise62
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with F5 Bot Management?
The integration was a bit tough, but I find it to be a good solution. I do face problems with the integration within my existing system because there are many bots giving false positives. There is ...
What is your primary use case for F5 Bot Management?
The primary use cases involve bot management.
What advice do you have for others considering F5 Bot Management?
I have been working with multiple F5 products besides NGINX. Currently, I am only using the WAF and anti-bot solution from their DDoS solutions, DNS, and API Gateway. I do not see any other particu...
Which Web Application Firewall (WAF) would you recommend? R&S or Imperva?
Imperva is a strong choice, given their security focus and ongoing R&D into the product in areas such as bot management.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imperva DDoS?
The pricing, setup costs, and licensing of Imperva DDoS are reasonable for the amount of technical capabilities provided. I would rate the pricing of Imperva DDoS as five, where one is very cheap a...
What needs improvement with Imperva DDoS?
I would like to see improvements in the pooling of threats and attacks, possibly to enlarge the scale of indicators of compromise. For example, the initiation of an attack on the endpoint level cou...
 

Also Known As

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Imperva Bot Management, Imperva Web Application Firewall, Imperva API Security
 

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Sample Customers

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Hitachi, BNZ, Bitstamp, Moz, InnoGames, BTCChina, Wix, LivePerson, Zillow and more.
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