We performed a comparison between Imperva DDoS and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway 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."It blocks all types of attacks."
"The dashboard is good and user-friendly."
"Integration with IBM AS/400 and Db2 is okay."
"It is a stable solution."
"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."
"The most valuable features for us are the DDoS and Bot."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"We have peace of mind that nobody will use malware on us or try to hack our website."
"I find Application Gateway’s WAF module valuable because it helps prevent layer 7 attacks."
"Application Gateway automatically redirects unwanted users and takes care of the security aspect. It also handles the performance side of things, which is why we use it."
"It is a scalable solution...The installation phase of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is very easy."
"This is a SaaS product, so it is always up to date."
"I like the tool's stability and performance."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is traffic management."
"The most valuable feature is WAF."
"The solution was very easy to configure. It wasn't hard at all to adjust it to our needs."
"It would be beneficial to include vulnerability management in the solution, similar to what they have for their on-premise solution."
"The solution needs to improve Integration with third parties for their on-prem deployment models. The integration is not that good yet."
"The rules surrounding the making of web applications could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"Users would benefit from better documentation. There is official documentation, but sometimes we need more detail. We have some use cases that are not so run of the mill. It would be great if there was a knowledge base that we could go to for more answers."
"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."
"It is a bit tricky to configure. You've got to have a very specific format to configure it. They should make it a little bit easier to configure. Mapping the certificates into it isn't easy, and it could be better. Currently, you've to write a bit of automation to pull certificates directly to HTTPS."
"The solution could improve by increasing the performance when doing updates. For example, if I change the certificate it can take 30 minutes. Other vendors do not have this type of problem."
"Needs easier integration with the existing SIAM."
"Microsoft Azure Application Gateway could improve by allowing features to use more third-party tools."
"One of the challenges we faced was the solution does not support any other PCP protocols apart from HTTP and HTTPS."
"The product could be easier to use and implement."
"The monitoring on the solution could be better."
"For the first-time user, it is difficult to understand so the user-interface needs to be improved."
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Imperva DDoS is ranked 18th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 74 reviews while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is ranked 3rd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 41 reviews. Imperva DDoS is rated 8.8, while Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Imperva DDoS writes "I like the content monitoring feature which I haven't seen in other WAF solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Application Gateway writes "High stability with built-in rules that reduce alerts and are easy to configure". Imperva DDoS is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai, Arbor DDoS, Radware DefensePro and AWS WAF, whereas Microsoft Azure Application Gateway is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF, Citrix NetScaler, AWS WAF, Cloudflare Web Application Firewall and Azure Front Door. See our Imperva DDoS vs. Microsoft Azure Application Gateway report.
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