# Imperva App Protect Reviews **Vendor:** Thales Group **Category:** [Web Application Firewalls (WAF)](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-application-firewall-waf) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 80 ## About Imperva App Protect Imperva Incapsula delivers an enterprise-grade Web Application Firewall to safeguard your site from the latest threats, an intelligent and instantly effective 360-degree anti-DDoS solutions (layers 3-4 and 7), a global CDN to speed up your website's load speed and minimize bandwidth usage and an array of performance monitoring and analytic services to provide insights about your website's security and performance. ## Imperva App Protect Reviews ### 1. Imperva WAF = Advance Web Protection at its best **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rahul r. | Senior Information Security Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** Imperva is best in industry due to: It simple architecture, and very easy to understand Imperva keeps on upgrading its signatures. It stops and filters out adversaries from the sites that tries to break into it or deface it by malicious techniques (DDoS, Cross site scripting etc) It is very easy to use and its scan policy builder and website adding process very easy, just couple of clicks and its done. It keeps monitoring on PCI standards, Attack vector analysis of all websites, and generates reports in detail. Its support team is motivated, and always available to help to resolve the issue ASAP. **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** lacking in logs of allowed traffic to the server. But they have a facility of rule-making to create alert for any specific traffic lookout. But this is a manual task. **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** Imperva has features of Website Protection, easy to administer, and Good Tech Suppor team, So, it can be your best too. **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our comapany is a software development giant. Many Project needs websites to be protected for their clients. Here Imperva plays a good role in protrcting those websites from malicious adversaries. Advance Web threat protection, Attack vector analysis It is very easy to use and itsscan policy builder and website adding process very easy, just couple of clicks and its done. Its support team is motivated, and always available to help to resolve the issue ASAP. ### 2. Difficult to work with and expensive **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** Provides a high level of security for perimeter applications and websites. **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** No one at our organization had experience with it after the person who implemented it left the company. It became problematic and caused outages due to a lack of knowledge. **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** Make sure you are thoroughly familiar with the product before implementing it in your environment! **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure applications and sites in the perimeter. ### 3. Protecting your sites from bad actors while preserving resources for the visitors who need it! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob c. | IT Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** The most helpful part of Imperva Cloud Security is preventing bad actors from accessing your site and attempting to break into it or deface it. There are many upsides that come along with this, including the ability to prevent bad actors from profiling your site to find weaknesses to exploit them, often times these bots run through hundreds if not thousands of vulnerabilities at a time in the manner of seconds, with Imperva they get stopped in their tracks. If bandwidth is a concern this will help preserve it for legitimate traffic. **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** If you have multiple varying domains under your account, and are using Imperva's SSL Certificates, they all share the same and tools on the net can be used to find alternate sites under your account. This was not a major concern for my company, but can see some examples of how this could be revealing. **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** If you have no WAF in place currently and your site is not brand new, try Imperva's demo, and you will quickly see why you should be using the product. Watch the amount of traffic that it blocks, and then compare the metrics from the resources before and after to see the difference. **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Imperva is a firewall for your websites, it solves the problem of stopping nefarious acts from being carried out. We have seen an significant decrease in resource and bandwidth usage due to blocking threats from accessing our sites. Without having Imperva this traffic would be allowed to pass through to our site eating up compute and bandwidth. This can also be a cost saving factor for hosting scenarios based on this alone, but really is an added bonus when locking down your critical infrastructure, whether is publicly or locally hosted. If it requires access from the Internet you should be protecting yourself with Imperva. ### 4. Fair CDN and DDOS Protection **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Iida J. | Marketing Analytst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** I have used Incapsula's free CDN services before and I can say that it is good compared to Cloudflare. Their CDN is more stable compared to cloudflare at that time, and only a few 503s appear. The only reason I left Incapsula is they do not support SSL for free, and at that time, I do not have enough to spend for the expenses, so I switched to Cloudflare because they offer it for free. **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** Incapsula is good compared to other free CDN services I have tried, but its just the SSL that made me decide to go with cloudflare becaues its free. **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** I experienced them first hand and they are great. Service is great and support is great. Its just that I switched to another provider because they dont give out a feature for free when with cloudflare it is free. **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** DDOS protection and CDN services to speed up website globally. ### 5. Incapsula **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcus R. A. | Information Technology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** Thanks to incapsula I can control all types of attacks against the security of our digital platforms, it is a perfect tool for web protection, since it has a highly effective system against all types of attacks, it should be noted that while Incapsula is running on On the website, this does not produce effects for the performance of the website in question, which is a point in favor of this application, since there are other applications, which offer a very complete protection, but usually affect the performance and functioning of the websites, something that with Imperva Incapsula does not happen, that's why it is our preferred security platform. **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** You have to be honest, and this is not what I say, many colleagues think the same, this application is too expensive, there are many options in the market, and I do not know why they do not analyze costs, other applications, and they adapt a little to the prices that can be found in other programs that provide the same service, is a very good application, but the price can be a great reason, so that not everyone uses it. **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** As I said before, the price is somewhat expensive, taking into account other similar services, so a reduction would not be bad, in this way, customers with whom they already have, can be optimistic in a longer renewal. **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, it complies with what it promises, we hire this service, to have greater security in our virtual platforms and so far all right, we have not been with it for a long time, a little over a year, but until now no problem has been presented, nor an attack that significantly affects our websites, so we have protected all our platforms, with the highest security, even until we have a real and dangerous attack, we cannot know the full effectiveness of the application. ### 6. Fast and very good in support under attacks **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** It is a very powerful and wide solution, but the interface is very, very compact and all the features are easy-to-go. Scriptable security rules, which are activating super fast (hello, Akamai), the real-time dashboard is easy to use and very informative **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** Actually, I can't find any serious troubles during our experience. Especially for such price **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** Really nice for the sites, which are not really heavily using from all over the world, but from the specific regions **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Attack protection, cache, ability to easy change the origin servers ### 7. A great and simple to use Web App Firewall **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** I like the UI of Incapsula, and how easy it is to understand. Every element has helpful descriptions, and the layout of the platform is very clean. Every screen has a wealth of functionality, but it is all very easy to digest and move through. **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** Managing wildcard domains through Incapsula is a little cumbersome in their setup, but its not a major issue. It just took a couple extra steps. **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** Make sure to take it for a trial run and push it to its limits in order to understand how much of the platform is useful to you. There are a lot of features to dig into. **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We solved a need to move from a hardware Web Application Firewall to a cloud based solution. We also needed a way to start caching resources to decrease the workload on the web servers. ### 8. Great Security and Performance **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** Powerfull WAF and ddos mitigation with an added bonus of CDN with great performance optimizations. **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** They charge for bandwidth overages unlike Cloudflare. **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security, DDOS mitigation and performance optimization ### 9. GOOD TO GO WITH **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** Its quick procedure to secure from DDOS attack , bandwidth management reduced tension , reduced cost , more safer feel when imperva is working **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** SOMETIME OVERLOOKED IP , OR POPUPS are really pissing . but its not in most of cases . false positive ratio is very low **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** I wuld suggest to first do your work on it , if satisfied go for it, because of your requirement , may vary **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** DDOS ATTACK, BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT ### 10. Bringing back our company from the brink of a ddos collapse **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian M. | PHP Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2017 **What do you like best about Imperva App Protect?** Dedicated customer support person and minimal dashboard but has everything you need in it. **What do you dislike about Imperva App Protect?** I don't like the price but if you need it you will pay for it. **Recommendations to others considering Imperva App Protect:** The price is a little steep but doesnt compare to losing clients over something like a ddos attack. **What problems is Imperva App Protect solving and how is that benefiting you?** DDoS attacks were bringing down all 300+ of our clients sites and almost made us lose business. ## Imperva App Protect Discussions - [Does Incapsula provide proactive notification to me if my site is under DDoS attack?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-incapsula-provide-proactive-notification-to-me-if-my-site-is-under-ddos-attack) - 1 upvote - [Does Incapsula protect from application (Layer 7) DDoS attacks?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-incapsula-protect-from-application-layer-7-ddos-attacks) - 1 upvote - [Does Incapsula protect from network (Layers 3, 4) DDoS attacks?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-incapsula-protect-from-network-layers-3-4-ddos-attacks) - 1 upvote - [What types of DDoS attacks can be mitigated by Incapsula?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-types-of-ddos-attacks-can-be-mitigated-by-incapsula) - 1 upvote - [Why do I need Incapsula if my website has never been attacked?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-do-i-need-incapsula-if-my-website-has-never-been-attacked) - 1 upvote - [View Imperva App Protect pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/imperva-app-protect/reviews/imperva-app-protect-review-121467?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+03%3A03%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ee876190-c0a2-408d-9495-e21b3d909472&secure%5Btoken%5D=19ff059c921fb623304332189825f361c40844224a3729ce7ada861a4a7b8ed8&format=llm_user) ## Imperva App Protect Features **Administration** - Dashboard & Reporting - Alerting **Management** - IT Alerting - Network Capacity - Logging - API / Integrations **Agentic AI - Content Delivery Network (CDN)** - Proactive Assistance **Risk Analysis** - Blacklist and Whitelist - Vulnerability Assessment - Security Auditing **Protection** - DNS Protection - Website Protection - Infrastructure Protection **Management** - Dashboard - Reports - Logs **Threat Protection** - Firewall - DDoS Protection - Malware Detection - Malware Removal **Functionality** - Bot Traffic **Resolution** - Attack Mitigation - Network Monitoring - Security Monitoring - Anomoly Detection - Resolution Automation **Integration** - API **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization ## Top Imperva App Protect Alternatives - [Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (578 reviews) - [Sucuri](https://www.g2.com/products/sucuri/reviews) - 3.3/5.0 (47 reviews) - [Amazon CloudFront](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudfront/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (181 reviews)