Imperva Advanced Bot Protection Reviews & Product Details

Automated bot attacks have become a major security concern for businesses across industries. From credential stuffing to web scraping and fraud, malicious bots target websites, APIs, and mobile applications, posing significant risks to data, customer trust, and revenue. As automation now dominates how digital services are accessed, and AI increases the scale and sophistication of these threats, organizations face growing challenges in distinguishing between legitimate and malicious activity. Imperva Advanced Bot Protection offers a powerful solution, leveraging advanced machine learning and behavioral analysis to safeguard your organization from automated threats. Unlike traditional bot mitigation tools, Imperva’s Advanced Bot Protection continuously adapts to evolving attack techniques. It distinguishes between good bots, such as search engine crawlers or authorized partners, and malicious bots designed to exploit vulnerabilities. By monitoring traffic in real time and analyzing behavioral patterns, Imperva can automatically detect and block harmful bots before they cause damage, ensuring that legitimate users are not impacted. Imperva’s solution provides detailed insights into bot traffic, allowing businesses to analyze patterns and understand the scale of automated activity targeting their systems. Advanced Bot Protection extends this visibility by showing which AI tools and agents are accessing applications, what they are doing, and which areas they are targeting. This enhanced visibility enables organizations to fine tune their security posture and implement more effective strategies against specific threats. With the ability to customize bot protection rules, security teams can control how different types of bot traffic are handled, optimizing security and performance. Imperva Advanced Bot Protection can seamlessly integrate into your existing infrastructure whether your business operates in e commerce, finance, marketing, or any other industry. It supports deployment across on premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring comprehensive coverage regardless of your applications' location. Imperva helps avoid costly data breaches, fraudulent transactions, reputational damage, and service disruptions by preventing bot driven attacks. With Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, you can maintain customer trust, protect sensitive data, and ensure uninterrupted service.

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Thales Group

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English

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What is Imperva Advanced Bot Protection, and what problem is it built to solve?

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection is used to detect and block malicious or unwanted bots targeting websites. Teams use it to help prevent automated attacks, scraping, and other unwanted bot traffic.

What languages does Imperva Advanced Bot Protection support?

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection supports 1 language: English.

Does Imperva Advanced Bot Protection offer an open API, and what does it integrate with?

Imperva Advanced Bot Protection does not offer an open API. Its five listed integrations span several areas:

Content delivery: Akamai Content Delivery Solutions (CDN)
Cloud computing: AWS Lambda
Application security and performance: Cloudflare Application Security and Performance
Web application firewall: F5 BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall (Advanced WAF)
Web server and proxy: OpenResty

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Sushant D.

Business Intelligence Engineer - 2

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/17/2022

"Using bot made easy and secure"

3/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

Usage and experience is best and world class with dependant security for sites and data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

The user friendliness can be improved. With added AI, interactive conversation and detection can be made easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/23/2022

"Quite efficient bot protection tool"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

Best features of this bot protection tool is that you have the ability of whitelisting and backlisting. With this functionality you can allow google and Facebook like bots used in advertisement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

There is no option to test this tool with a self made testing bot you can use only imperva testing bot to test it's working while implementing the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RANGER C.

Lead Account Manager

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 7/31/2018

"Fast and accurate!"

5/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

When it comes to bot detection, spam, and network traffic, Distil is the best, fast, and reliable to protect your network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

None so far, it works like a charm, very efficient to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Imperva Advanced Bot Protection:

You're in safe hands, you will have peace of mind that your business is safe and secure. Their web application firewall is designed for HTTP flood attacks and amplification. Thumbs up, Distil! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Imperva Advanced Bot Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Network traffic, blocking IP, website attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/11/2019

"They treat us like partners more than customers"

5/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

It helps us to detect and prevent our website from Malicious and vulnerable bots. There customer service is awesome. They treat us like partners more than a customer. Distil networks works best in every aspect. It is very simple to setup and easy to use. It helps us in protecting our data from getting scraped off from our websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

I found nothing to dislike about distil networks. It is the best and user friendly bot detection software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Motion Pictures and Film

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/3/2019

"Bot problem before distill network"

4/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

I have used bot detection solutions for Web and can say that it is the best among others. Distil network helps us by protecting our data from being destroyed. Distil network is also the fastest and most reliable that protects our network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

Though I didn't have any problems that I have faced from distil network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Luxury Goods & Jewelry

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/9/2018

"Effective Bot Detection solution for Web/API"

4/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

I have used their Bot Detection solution for web and can definitely say that its is one of the very best out there. Very ease to integrate and use and is supremely effective in preventing unwanted web crawling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

Nothing really. But if I have to crib, then maybe "pricing" ? :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Imperva Advanced Bot Protection:

I would say go for it or at least give it a try. You can always switch if you do not like their solution offerings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Imperva Advanced Bot Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of our clients was running a popular and pretty large e-commerce portal and their competition was always able to underprice their product. Server logs indicated bots were being served with content at a regular basis. Distil's bot detection for web was able to detect and prevent this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/13/2017

"Threat Security"

3/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

They had a very intuitive set up process and were helpful throughout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

I was not the biggest fan of their dashboard. I think other providers in the same space do it better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Imperva Advanced Bot Protection:

I would recommend trying it but have clear use cases developed before implementing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Imperva Advanced Bot Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were using them to detect fraud and non human traffic that was coming to our website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/4/2018

"It's a nice software"

3/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

Have all the features one needs for security and provides good access to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

Not much overall, the software is good to use and handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Roberto G.

Digital Marketing Officer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/31/2016

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"I had a bot problem before Distil Networks"

5/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

The best part of being a partner of Distil is the team and the support that was provided to us from the start. On boarding was a breeze and had expected a much longer process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

I haven't come across anything that I can say that I dislike about the service.. I have been with Distil for more than 2 years and have no complaints about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Imperva Advanced Bot Protection:

Give it a try and the setup is very easy almost too easy and no down time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Imperva Advanced Bot Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our site was being scrapped on a daily basis and we couldn't block them as fast as they were coming in and changing IP's. Our Customers were becoming very frustrated as our site was starting to suffer from a user experience and could also cause issues with SEO.

Our team tried to do it our self with little to no success until we started with the Distil platform and noticed a big improvement with site uptime and blocking bots.

Seeing the reports that showed the amount of bots was a big eye opener as with our home grown solution we weren't able to see these insights.

Great job to Ron, Rami and the team at Distil

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Shane W.

Data Architect

Non-Profit Organization Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/4/2015

"Protects Our Data - Blocks Bad Bots"

5/5

What do you like best about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

We spend a lot of time and money curating and advancing data on the social sector. Distil helps us protect the data from being scraped off of our web properties. We did not even realize the extent of the problem until we implemented Distil. It really opened our eyes.

We want our data to be used in ways that are consistent with our vision of the social sector, Distil helps us with that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Imperva Advanced Bot Protection?

Nothing. Our experience with Distil has been outstanding. They treat us like a Partner not a Customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Imperva Advanced Bot Protection:

If you are still blocking web scrapers or bad bots by IP, you are fighting a losing battle. Distil fingerprints bots and will block them from any IP they come from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Imperva Advanced Bot Protection solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were spending a lot of our engineering resources blocking bots and were experiencing service outages. With Distil's "set it and forget it" implementation we do not have to interrupt product development to block bots. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.