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F5 Bot Management vs Imperva Application Security Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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
144
Ranking in other categories
CDN (2nd), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (1st), 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.
ST
Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at Cyberoutcome Limited
Strong policies and bot defenses have secured critical APIs and have reduced attack noise
From my research regarding the IAM space that Imperva Application Security Platform is trying to look into, I believe they still need to do a lot of modeling and modification to make sure that also helps. There are several competitors in the IAM space, so Imperva would do well if they can do some basic modeling and modifications from my own personal research and my own experience in the IAM space. Alternatively, they could actually just focus on trying to be stronger in the web application space and the database activity monitoring space.The main reason it is not a perfect ten is regarding support. At times, having to reach the support team takes eight hours to ten hours maximum. There are times when clients could have urgent issues to attend to. The support team could do more by having a faster response rate.

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."
"The most valuable features of Imperva Web Application Firewall are the monitoring of databases and the dashboards are easy to understand."
"Hands down, the WAF is the most valuable feature; being able to identify, block, whitelist or blacklist as needed, are all valuable."
"Incapsula takes care of the CDN infrastructure and bandwidth volume, providing several enterprise "load balancing" features."
"The most valuable aspect of it is that it blocks all types of attacks."
"Thanks to Incapsula, we got easily manageable DDoS protection; HTTP2 and SSL certificates for all the services; CDN in good locations; and we're now sure that our web services can't be exploited remotely because of the WAF feature."
"Basic setup is simple but, as with any caching/WAF setup, there are tricks you need to learn, but it works really nice out of the box!"
"This product is a reliable defense from malicious attacks on a network environment."
"This implementation helped our organization a lot in handling web attacks by hackers and other malicious intruders."
 

Cons

"I do face problems with the integration within my existing system because there are many bots giving false positives."
"The only disadvantage of Imperva is that it is a pretty costly solution."
"Learning capability of the device is quite weak."
"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."
"Certificate management could be improved."
"We've had some issues with them in terms of response times, but overall they are okay."
"Delivery services and information security."
"Sometimes, the SSL setup can be a bit slow/inconsistent."
"Their portal is very limited and needs improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price of Imperva Web Application Firewalls is expensive compared to others."
"Licensing can range from one to twenty thousand dollars annually. Additionally, some features, including software support, require an annual subscription as well."
"Everybody complains about the price of this solution."
"There is a license for this solution and we purchase the license annually with no additional fees."
"The solution's price is high for small companies."
"Imperva’s pricing is a bit higher in the market since it offers a full-blown WAF."
"The tool is expensive."
"We sell three-year licenses for Imperva Web Application Firewall to our customers. The price is a little expensive."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
Small Business88
Midsize Enterprise25
Large Enterprise69
 

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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