Imperva Application Security Platform vs Oracle Dyn Web Application Security comparison

Imperva and Oracle are both solutions in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category. Imperva is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.4, while Oracle is ranked #57. Imperva holds a 7.8% mindshare in WAF, compared to Oracle’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Imperva users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

Imperva Application Security Platform and Oracle Dyn Web Application Security are key players in the web application security sector. While Imperva is favored for its feature set and user satisfaction, Oracle Dyn is perceived as delivering a more comprehensive security package.

Features: Imperva offers web application firewall, bot mitigation, and API security. It provides real-time security updates and extensive attack analytics. Oracle Dyn focuses on DNS-based security, DDoS protection, and web application firewall features with cloud integration. Its integration with existing infrastructure and cloud scalability are significant advantages.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Imperva allows flexible deployment across cloud and on-premises environments, combined with dedicated support services. Oracle Dyn emphasizes efficient cloud-based deployment with integrated customer support, enhancing ease of use and adaptation.

Pricing and ROI: Imperva entails higher initial setup costs but offers potential high ROI due to robust threat prevention. Oracle Dyn's competitive pricing focuses on cost efficiency through scalable models, balancing cost and security benefits.

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Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) category, the mindshare of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is 5.6%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Imperva Application Security Platform is 7.8%, up from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Dyn Web Application Security is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Web Application Firewall (WAF) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Imperva Application Security Platform	7.8%
Cloudflare Web Application Firewall	5.6%
Oracle Dyn Web Application Security	0.2%
Other	86.4%

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Featured Reviews

Dean Barisic

CTO at PlayNirvana

Advanced security reporting has protected high-traffic betting platforms from constant attacks

I don't see room for improvement to Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. One thing I don't know much about because we have a dedicated IT team for that, and I'm not involved with Cloudflare much anymore. But if I were to compare them to F5, I would like to see more features that F5 offers. F5 has an option to bring the whole infrastructure, the whole WAF and all their packages, Bot Management, and everything else on your infrastructure. You need to install certain services from their side, and then you can choose if you would like requests to hit your servers immediately or if requests need to be proxied through F5 backbone. That would be a nice addition because we have 90% of the traffic as legit traffic coming from whitelisted servers. If it comes from whitelisted servers, I don't need to go every request through the backbone; I could easily just IP whitelist everything. Then I could maybe have Bot Management on my infrastructure that drastically reduces the price of Cloudflare. I would like to see Push CDN more improved in the next release of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. And maybe something similar to Pushpin that Fastly has, which is an option where you can push messages that then can be scaled globally over the network. From our perspective, if we have a listener that listens for stock updates, I would just need to have one processor that pushes those updates to the Cloudflare API, and then Cloudflare would broadcast that message to all listeners. Cloudflare will check the order of the message, and if you, as a customer, are not connected or have some kind of network issue, when you reconnect, you will receive the latest state and missing updates.

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reviewer1247523

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.

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Khalil AbdulrahmanAlasbahi

Commercial Manager at Natco Information technology

Very secure with an easy initial setup and pretty stable

We are using the latest version of the solution. We sell this solution for financial systems. We're Oracle partners and service providers. We'll present this solution to our clients and give them a benefit analysis of the product so they can see the reasons why they need the solution or why it might help them. I'd rate this solution nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Caching is the most valuable feature of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall."

"I'm highly satisfied. It's remarkably user-friendly, enabling me to quickly identify issues, and deploy solutions, and it offers the necessary features."

"Cloudflare WAF provides protection through rules and functionalities like Cloudflare's SDRAP."

"Cloudflare is cheaper compared to Azure WAF, which I have considered before."

"Does a good job preventing web application attacks."

"The integration of Cloudflare with Cloud Suite is its most valuable feature."

"The impact of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's integration with existing web technologies on our site's performance and security measures is quite great, actually."

"The Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's most valuable feature is its ease of configuration."

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"Imperva Web Application Firewall is stable."

"The most valuable feature of Imperva, in addition to its strong knowledge base, is its effective protection for web applications."

"Protection is the best solution since it has profile functionality."

"There is no need to have an appliance in house for the services because it is on the cloud."

"Imperva monitors all traffic, even customer access, to the web application. Then, Imperva uses features like signatures to identify attacks like cross-site scripting or SQL injection."

"It fits our requirements, as well as our budget."

"Technical support was very helpful."

"Simplifies putting everything in code."

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"The initial setup is pretty easy."

Cons

"The ModSecurity core rules need to be updated."

"The solution's learning curve can still be further reduced"

"There could be an option to duplicate the cluster to maintain the consistency of rules."

"The accuracy of the Cloudflare Web Application Firewall could be improved by reducing the number of false-negative alerts."

"I have experienced some difficulties with Cloudflare's support as a customer based in India."

"The dashboard could be more user-friendly."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall should include port forwarding features."

"The product can improve by having more multitenancy capability, which is currently not available."

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"It would be useful if the solution used more intelligence in attack protection. For example, firewalls are to be dependent on the configuration, but if they could have some data science around it the solution would be even better. The profiling of the traffic, and making decisions surrounding that should be intelligence-based, instead of being based on the configuration of the firewall itself."

"I loved the approach of the cloud. The cloud has a lot of new features, like advanced web protection and DDoS protection. If those could also be on-boarded onto the on-prem versions, that would be ideal. They need to pay attention to both deployment options and not just favor one."

"The tool needs to include artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also needs to improve profiling."

"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."

"It should be more user-friendly. Like other web solutions, it would be helpful to be able to easily do policy configuration and identification inside the application. Understanding the in-depth configuration of a policy is somewhat difficult for an engineer, and they can improve that."

"Analytics in the area of risk need to be improved to supply more information to the users for creating better environments."

"Sometimes, support tickets don't get addressed quickly."

"We had an issue when securing the web applications for DDoS protection."

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"The solution should have a Data Mask for the next release. It would be helpful for banking institutions as they would be able to hide the server number of the ATM machine in the CPU."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing? I believe the pricing is not the best, but it's reasonable and acceptable. We also use the McAfee system in parallel. In terms of pricing, its okay - not great, but not bad either. It falls in the middle, which is acceptable. In terms of support licensing, last time, we were searching for a solution, and we considered products from resellers rather than directly from the cloud provider. However, the pricing we encountered was exceptionally high. As a result, we are inclined to select support from the reseller."

"Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is more affordable than other solutions."

"It starts at $20 and can easily go up to $200 monthly"

"Cloudflare offers different types of subscriptions for businesses, enterprises, and personal users, and the pricing is negotiable."

"It is not too pricey."

"The solution is expensive."

"The annual licensing fee is $10,000 USD."

"The solution's pricing option needs to be more transparent for enterprise clients."

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"The tool is expensive."

"The price is high compared to other solutions like FortiWeb."

"Imperva Web Application Firewall price is higher compared to other solutions. However, everything is included in the price."

"We are satisfied with the pricing."

"Make sure you understand the way that Imperva charges. It's very affordable. However, I would like to see a package with the Virtual Patching included. You get to do patching separately."

"The solution's price is high for small companies."

"Everybody complains about the price of this solution."

"The tool's pricing is good."

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Security Expert with 51-200 employees

Nov 6, 2013

CloudFlare vs Incapsula: Web Application Firewall

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Computer Software Company

12%

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Financial Services Firm

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Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	6

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Midsize Enterprise	25
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

The price of Cloudflare Web Application Firewall is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

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What is your primary use case for Cloudflare Web Application Firewall?

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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 mana...

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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.

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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 provi...

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Also Known As

Cloudflare WAF

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

Dyn Web Application Security, Zenedge

Overview

Cloudflare Web Application Firewall's intuitive dashboard enables users to build powerful rules through easy clicks and also provides Terraform integration. Every request to the WAF is inspected against the rule engine and the threat intelligence curated from protecting over 27 Million websites. Suspicious requests can be blocked, challenged or logged as per the needs of the user while legitimate requests are routed to the destination, agnostic of whether it lives on-premise or in the cloud. Analytics and Cloudflare Logs enable visibility into actionable metrics for the user.

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Imperva Application Security Platform delivers comprehensive and continuous web threat protection. Renowned for its ease of use, it shields web applications and databases from various cyber threats while integrating seamlessly with cloud and on-premises environments.

Imperva Application Security Platform protects web environments by offering advanced security measures against threats like DDoS attacks, SQL injections, and cross-site scripting. As a robust web application firewall, it provides extensive monitoring and bot management capabilities. The platform integrates content delivery networks for enhanced performance and scalability, while real-time traffic analysis ensures consistent protection. Despite its strengths, improvements can be made in policy management and customization options. Users seek better integration with third-party tools and more competitive pricing models. The inclusion of AI for enhanced analytics is also anticipated.

What are the key features of Imperva Application Security Platform?

Correlated Attack Validation: Enhances threat assessment by linking related security events.
Threat Radar: Offers visibility into potential and ongoing threats.
Virtual Patching: Provides protection against vulnerabilities without immediate code changes.
IncapRules: Allows creation of custom security policies.
DDoS Protection: Defends against large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks.
CDN Integration: Improves content delivery speed and reliability.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

User-Friendly Administration: Simplifies setup and ongoing management tasks.
Seamless Integration: Ensures smooth operation with existing infrastructure.
Comprehensive Threat Protection: Shields digital assets from a wide range of threats.
Hands-On Support: Provides timely and effective customer service assistance.

Imperva Application Security Platform is implemented in industries needing strong database and application protection. Companies use it to enforce geolocation restrictions and manage bots, benefiting sectors like finance and e-commerce where data security and threat monitoring are critical. Its ability to protect and ensure data accessibility makes it integral to business operations prioritizing cyber resilience.

Imperva

ZENEDGE offers total security for your Web applications and networks, identifying threat actors, and stopping malicious bot traffic and DDoS attacks from reaching your servers. Malicious traffic is intercepted at the edge of the network by the ZENEDGE cybersecurity platform, stopping it from ever reaching your web application or network, ensuring continued uptime and normal operations. Ongoing monitoring, threat intel and regular security updates protect against new zero-day vulnerabilities.

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crunchbase, udacity, marketo, okcupid, zendesk

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

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