Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) Features

Provides required reports to manage business. Provides adequate logging to troubleshoot and support auditing.

Track issues and manage resolutions.

Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.

Gives user configurable rules to control requests, protocols and policies.

Limits access to suspicious visitors and monitors for traffic spikes to prevent overloads like DDoS attacks.

Lets users provision networks, deliver content, balance loads, and manage traffic.

API / Integrations

Provides the ability to extend the platform to include additional features and functionalities

Control and filter bot traffic.

Send summary, update, or actionable alerts to administrators to detail activity.

Provide control over traffic. Limits access to suspicious visitors and monitors for traffic spikes to prevent overloads like DDoS attacks.

Information on each incident is stored in databases for user reference and analytics.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Detect and protect against attacks targeting domain name servers.

Detect and protect against attacks targeting websites.

Detect and protect against attacks targeting on-premise or locally controlled infrastructure.

Monitors for and rids systems of bots, or other threats suspected of committing unauthorized actions.

Documents the actions from endpoints within a network. Alerts users of incidents and abnormal activities and documents the access point.

Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering.

Constantly monitors acivity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns.

Diagnoses and resolves incidents without the need for human interaction.

Monitor the IP addresses of the incoming traffic

Continuously scan servers on a designated network to monitor health and search for any irregularities or failures

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Provides visibility into bot activity, attack trends, and traffic composition through dashboards and reporting

Distinguishes approved bots such as search engine crawlers and partner integrations from malicious automation

Identifies and classifies malicious automated traffic across web applications, APIs, or digital services

Uses machine learning or AI models to identify sophisticated or evolving bot behavior patterns

Identifies, classifies, and manages traffic generated by AI agents, autonomous agents, or LLM-based systems

Dynamically adjusts detection and mitigation decisions based on AI-driven risk analysis

Automatically blocks, challenges, rate limits, or otherwise mitigates malicious bot traffic

Protects APIs from automated attacks, scraping, excessive requests, and unauthorized access attempts

Detects and prevents credential stuffing, account takeover, and automated login abuse

Create, manage, and track policies and procedures within an organization

Manage incidents related to outages or breaches in functionality of IT systems

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Information to prevent, understand and identify cyber threats

Monitor the IP addresses of the incoming traffic

Automatically identify and flag unusual behaviors and malicious software

Identify and prevent suspicious activity

A chronological record of actions or occurrences within a network, software, or process

Reduce or block bot traffic

Discover patch statuses and vulnerabilities

Receive notification of issues as soon as they occur

Information to prevent, understand and identify cyber threats

Identify bot traffic

Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics

Software program that continuously adjusts its behavior based on observed data

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Track and analyse user behavior within a system or network