Check Point DDoS Protector vs Imperva Application Security Platform comparison

Check Point Software Technologies and Imperva are both solutions in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category. Check Point Software Technologies is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.0, while Imperva is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. Check Point Software Technologies holds a 1.0% mindshare in DDOS, compared to Imperva’s 8.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Check Point Software Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Imperva users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

Imperva Application Security Platform and Check Point DDoS Protector are contenders in the application security and DDoS mitigation market. Imperva seems to have the upper hand due to broader functionalities and customization options.

Features: Imperva Application Security Platform includes strong DDoS and web application firewall capabilities, threat radar, virtual patching, analytics, and bot management. It is user-friendly and offers comprehensive tools for application security. Check Point DDoS Protector provides real-time detection and mitigation, powered by machine learning and behavior analytics. It also includes anti-DDoS, network behavior analysis, and SSL attack protection modules.

Room for Improvement: Imperva users call for better customer support, more granular policy management, enhanced reporting, caching rules, and user interfaces. There's also a need for increased visibility and integration with other tools. Check Point users seek a simpler interface, detailed real-time traffic analytics, and improved multilingual support and reporting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Imperva Application Security Platform offers flexible deployment options in public, hybrid clouds, and on-premises. Users commend its straightforward deployments with detailed guidance and responsive customer service. Check Point DDoS Protector also provides similar deployment flexibility but has mixed reviews regarding customer support and response times, noting room for localized support improvement.

Pricing and ROI: Imperva is considered cost-effective, with its upfront cost balanced by strong ROI from its comprehensive security features, and provides good protection value and compliance. Check Point DDoS Protector is viewed as expensive, though users justify the cost with its robust real-time protection capabilities, although smaller organizations find pricing a challenge.

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Categories and Ranking

Check Point DDoS Protector

Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

19th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Imperva Application Securit...

Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

133

Ranking in other categories

CDN (2nd), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (3rd), Bot Management (1st), API Security (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category, the mindshare of Check Point DDoS Protector is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Imperva Application Security Platform is 8.2%, up from 8.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Imperva Application Security Platform	8.2%
Check Point DDoS Protector	1.0%
Other	90.8%

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

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reviewer2753559

Cyber Security Solution Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Ensures service availability and handles attacks effectively though initial setup needs expertise

The best features that Check Point DDoS Protector offers, which stand out to me the most, are real-time detection and mitigation of application-layer DDoS attacks, easy integration with the existing Check Point security infrastructure, and low latency protection that does not disrupt legitimate traffic. The centralized console makes it easy to manage policy across devices, and the integration is straightforward since it works seamlessly with Check Point firewall and management and other security products. Check Point DDoS Protector has positively impacted my organization by improving uptime, reducing incidents, and providing cost savings. It will reduce the incidents up to 30%.

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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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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Currently, we have fewer incidents with viruses. We improved our IQ operations and security using this solution. Our company's better after using Check Point."

"From my experience, the best part of this solution is behavioral DDoS protection. The DDoS Protector can monitor the traffic, and based on the behavior, it can decide which traffic is malicious and which traffic is regular. It works dynamically, and it's a very good solution."

"It can be deployed as a hardware appliance, virtual appliance, or as a cloud service."

"Check Point DDoS Protector is a product that uses machine learning and behavior analysis."

"It uses several layers of security."

"Check Point DDoS Protector has positively impacted my organization by improving uptime, reducing incidents, and providing cost savings."

"The initial setup takes two hours."

"One of its most outstanding functions is the zero-day DDOS."

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"Imperva is easy to use and deploy. The UI is excellent."

"I am impressed with the product's automatic bot mechanism. It also gives us the control to create our own custom bot rules."

"The most valuable features of the Imperva Web Application Firewall are performance and flexibility. We can extend or customize the box itself."

"I have had a positive experience with Imperva Web Application Firewall's tech support so far. They are knowledgeable and respond on time."

"There is a quick switch between any of the the nodes if something goes wrong, where there's a there's an attack against a specific area. The security setup is reasonably easy. It's not a problem to do setups and rules and integrations. And, yeah, just the the back end team is also very willing to insist if there's questions that that we cannot answer or with these questions that we do have"

"The setup of Imperva DDoS was easy."

"Imperva Incapsula has many valuable features. One, it protects the top 10 OWAS vulnerability, the open web application software platform, this is standard. Secondly, it protects against broken authentication. As well, it has remote execution of code."

"Data masking is the most valuable feature of this solution."

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Cons

"The mitigation part could be improved."

"Check Point should develop a DDoS solution because they don't have one and we need to use another solution, in our case, Imperva. This is a problem because we need to have two firewalls. We would like to only have one solution because it would improve the management, we would have fewer incidents, and we wouldn't need to talk to more than one person for support."

"Check Point DDoS Protector can be improved in that initial fine-tuning of policies can be complex and may require expertise."

"I would like applications for Android and IOS where we can follow the events, and, if necessary, make changes."

"The product is expensive."

"The solution should greatly improve its interface."

"It does not provide the capability to upload data for blacklisting/whitelisting in bulk."

"The Check Point support language is only in English."

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"I would like to see improvements in the pooling of threats and attacks, possibly to enlarge the scale of indicators of compromise."

"The process to upgrade from one version to another can be a lot simpler than it is currently."

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

"An improvement for Imperva WAF would be to reduce the number of false positives and create more strong use cases based on AI/ML or behavioral analytics."

"The solution works for particular zones but isn't always the best solution for all zones."

"I don't really use it and therefore can't speak to areas of improvement."

"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."

"We faced issues regarding compliance with client procedures. The client had strict compliance rules, and Imperva needed to be on a VM, while the client required containerization, causing a conflict. They went with Imperva for the on-premise version but shelved the cloud project due to too many blockers."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't deal with the pricing, but it seems that you need to get basic support in order to upgrade the DDoS database for new attacks and so on."

"The appliance comes with a loaded hardware license, and additional options such as SSL can be purchased and enabled."

"It's an expensive solution. It's one of the most expensive solutions in the world. It's cheaper than Palo Alto and Cisco but these are expensive solutions. Fortinet is cheaper."

"We are satisfied with the pricing."

"The tool is expensive."

"We sell three-year licenses for Imperva Web Application Firewall to our customers. The price is a little expensive."

"Pricing could be more competitive."

"The price of this solution is a little bit high compared to competitors."

"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."

"The cost is on par with other solutions such as Cloudflare and Akamai."

"I rate the product price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."

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Nov 6, 2013

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

34%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	83
Midsize Enterprise	25
Large Enterprise	61

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point DDoS Protector?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is straightforward with no challenges.

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What needs improvement with Check Point DDoS Protector?

Check Point DDoS Protector can be improved in that initial fine-tuning of policies can be complex and may require expertise. Additionally, reporting and analytics could be more detailed and customi...

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What is your primary use case for Check Point DDoS Protector?

My main use case for Check Point DDoS Protector is to protect our network perimeter against DDoS attacks, ensuring service availability and application layer attack in real time. I can give you a s...

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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 management.

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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 provided. I would rate the pricing of Imperva DDoS as five, where one is very cheap a...

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

Overview

Modern DDoS attacks use new techniques to exploit areas that traditional security solutions are not equipped to protect. These attacks can cause serious network downtime to businesses who rely on networks and Web services to operate. DDoS Protector Security Appliances and Cloud DDoS Protection Services block destructive DDoS attacks before they cause damage
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Check Point Software Technologies

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.

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Sample Customers

Boston Properties

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

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