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Imperva DDoS vs Kemp LoadMaster comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Imperva DDoS
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
77
Ranking in other categories
CDN (7th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (21st), Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection (10th)
Kemp LoadMaster
Average Rating
9.4
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Imperva DDoS and Kemp LoadMaster aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Imperva DDoS is designed for Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection and holds a mindshare of 8.2%, down 8.7% compared to last year.
Kemp LoadMaster, on the other hand, focuses on Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), holds 7.5% mindshare, up 7.6% since last year.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
 

Featured Reviews

DerrickAkankwasa - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 19, 2024
Provide DDoS protection and better security at effective rate
It is expanding its number of data centers for scrubbing traffic. Currently, there is only one POP for cleaning in South Africa. They might add another POP in North Africa, possibly in Nigeria or Egypt. Latency concerns customers, especially in regions like East and West Africa, where traffic has to travel to South Africa before returning. Increasing the number of POPs across the continent would help address these latency issues and improve overall service. While the platform is already quite strong, there’s always room for improvement, especially in keeping up with emerging trends and new types of attacks. Enhancing security capabilities could be beneficial. Integrating more advanced AI features could significantly improve its effectiveness and help customers leverage these tools more effectively. It would be great to see more focus on AI integration to handle and analyze data more efficiently.
PeterForster - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 21, 2023
A highly stable and scalable load-balancing software that offers great technical support
I use Kemp LoadMaster in my company as a replacement for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway and as a load balancer for Microsoft Exchange services in an on-premises environment. Nowadays, I use Kemp LoadMaster as an application load balancer for SQL Server, DNS servers, and different…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features are DDoS protection."
"Technical support was very helpful."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"It blocks all types of attacks."
"The solution has a very good interface."
"An improvement has been to our website: It increases the speed of our response, the capacity of the site, and optimizes the bandwidth.​"
"We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping."
"Imperva DDoS helps us automate production. The client had specific requirements for a cloud project in the financial sector."
"It has greatly fortified the performance and uptime of our front-door email ingress, simplified and segmented mail routing, and reduced admin overhead for mail issue resolution and troubleshooting."
"The security features, load balancing, built-in templates, and the easy to implement virtual IPs are great."
"The most valuable features for us are the Load Balancing and Web Application Firewall, as we have a lot of web applications."
"Managing and maintaining multiple servers is done in a single place."
"The Global WAF has saved us more than one time from unwanted traffic."
"Edge Security Pack is valuable because of the way it separates between critical infrastructure and the public internet."
"The feature I find most valuable is load balancing with different algorithms."
"I like that this is a Network Load Balancer that can be used practically with any application in the backend. They have how-to guides on how to set up Kemp NLB with Exchange, but you can use it as well for Sharepoint, RDS, or any other back end server."
 

Cons

"Some maintenance must be performed by our IT team."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"It needs to be improved every time there are new attacks."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"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."
"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."
"It lacks an officially supported, well-written SCOM Management Pack."
"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."
"It would be nice if the historical metrics were easily exportable from the interface."
"Several elements of the GUI need work. For example, if you have many content switches, it’s difficult to find the ones you need. And where is the search feature?"
"The product is really good as-is out of the box. If there is one thing I would change is to have the license file not be coupled with the MAC address of the device. This is actually not really useful in a virtual environment where if you have a single VM with KEMP LoadMaster and you have not set up static MAC Address, if you, for example, recreate the VM and just load the disk file on a new VM it will get new MAC address and the NLB will not work as it will not see a proper license."
"In the web interface, there are a lot of settings in the different menus and it would be helpful if there were an interactive help system or tooltips to help the administrators find and configure the right settings."
"I think there should be more visual instructions on how to configure advanced features."
"The ability to see live traffic is not great and can be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Varies depending on the needs of the customer."
"We have an issue with Imperva Incapsula in the Iraqi market because of the high price."
"We are satisfied with the pricing."
"There is a license or subscription renewal that our customers pay."
"The data packages are higher than our needs so we end up paying for data that we don't use."
"It is a very expensive solution. The price is very high. A lot of customers tell us that they would love to use Imperva more. I have some customers who have 50 websites, but they have only 10 websites on Imperva because of the price. They would love to have all their websites running through Imperva, but they can't. They have to choose the more critical websites to protect because the price is very high. It is a very good product, but it is too expensive. If you buy a plan for 20 megabytes and you don't consume all of your 20 megabytes, it is okay, but if you consume more, you are charged for the superior traffic."
"Imperva charges us based on bandwidth, which is better than other vendors that charge us according to data transfer."
"The license is on a yearly basis."
"The price of the solution is cheap."
"The price is lower than other options."
"Setup is easy, the cost is affordable, and the licensing is quick and simple."
"The setup cost and pricing plan is reasonable and will ultimately give you a worthy return."
"Currently, no cost is involved with a virtual load balancer. They have used open source. We did not pay for software. We paid for the expertise. We are only paying the consulting charges, which are very reasonable, that is, around a thousand dollars."
"The costs for the Kemp Load Balancer solution are okay because, for a good product, you have to spend money."
"Pricing for the perpetual licensing was fair to us for the features and ease of use we received."
"​I have control on the licensing and all the prices since I work for a partner.​"
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Comparison Review

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Nov 6, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
63%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
3%
Financial Services Firm
3%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Imperva Incapsula?
We use Imperva DDoS to stop DDoS attacks and reduce the amount of unwanted queries against web services or web scraping.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Imperva DDoS?
The pricing is rated a ten on a scale where ten is very expensive. The solution is only cloud-based and does not provide on-premises services.
What needs improvement with Imperva DDoS?
Pricing can be improved, as it is quite expensive. Additionally, support response times for emails can sometimes be delayed, which is an area that could use improvement.
What do you like most about Kemp LoadMaster?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten...The initial setup of Kemp LoadMaster is very simple.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kemp LoadMaster?
LoadMaster is cheaper than some other solutions. It has a perpetual license, so it's a one-time cost.
What needs improvement with Kemp LoadMaster?
My company is really happy with Kemp LoadMaster as a product. My company is also happy with the support we receive from Kemp LoadMaster. I want Kemp LoadMaster to provide users with better reportin...
 

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Also Known As

Imperva Incapsula
LoadMaster Load Balancer
 

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Sample Customers

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