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My main use case for Imperva Application Security Platform  is protecting public-facing websites, and I primarily used Imperva for the web application firewall, which was the principal use case for us.

I recall a time when Imperva's Web Application Firewall  helped us detect threats and protect against specific attacks. We used it in a large banking group to avoid and detect threats and protect against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities in web application security. This helped us significantly in detecting those vulnerabilities while using custom rules in WAF , making it a very effective use case for our web applications.

In addition to that, we were using Imperva WAF for bot detection and DDoS attacks. We tweaked the firewall rules and added rate-limiting rules to help manage DDoS attacks to a certain level.

What I found most effective about Imperva's WAF is that it has predefined rules covering many use cases, including compliance rules for PCI DSS and local country compliance. The customized rules based on application threats proved to be very useful, along with a good dashboard that, although somewhat complicated for beginners, becomes easy to manage at an expert level with good API integration and effective threat intelligence to detect threats.

After discussing the WAF, I believe Imperva has made significant advancements in its Cloud WAF offerings, which can now effectively protect against bot and DDoS attacks. This showcases a good advantage of being part of the Thales cybersecurity group while expanding its product range in the Cloud WAF space.

Imperva Application Security Platform  has positively impacted my organization by providing strong protection for web applications, as many big companies in the UK use Imperva WAF as an essential protection layer, illustrating its effectiveness.

To improve Imperva Application Security Platform, there is a necessity for enhancement in the threat layer, especially regarding DDoS protection and geographical DDoS attacks. Additionally, there is a need for more API integration within the environment, indicating room for improvement in those areas.

I rate this product eight out of ten because I believe there can still be improvements for the WAF, especially in terms of custom rules. I suggest that more rules could be added to the system instead of relying on SMEs for customization. The hardware being more expensive compared to other vendors poses a challenge, along with a need for improvement in the cloud WAF offerings.

I have been using Imperva Application Security Platform for nearly five to six years. I first used it in a large banking group before I joined my current company, where I used both the Imperva on-premise devices and Imperva Cloud.

In my experience, Imperva Application Security Platform is stable.

Regarding scalability, it is good in the cloud but not very strong for on-premise installations.

The customer support from Imperva has been great, with a single point of contact who catered to our company's needs effectively.

We did not use a different solution before adopting Imperva Application Security Platform.

We purchased Imperva Application Security Platform through a partner.

Although it is difficult to quantify the return on investment in monetary terms given that we cannot translate threats into monetary values, the use of Imperva was driven by compliance reasons and resulted in fewer incidents.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has shown that the setup cost was high, with the hardware installation in the data center being particularly expensive. Additionally, the cost associated with the appliances used to load balance application traffic resulted in expensive licensing and a need for frequent license rotation. Configuring both hardware and software has also proven to be time-consuming and costly.

Before choosing Imperva Application Security Platform, we evaluated F5 as a WAF solution and also considered Cloudflare .

Although it is difficult to measure the success in commercial or monetary terms, we found that we could manage more threats within the environment, with Imperva flagging threats coming from the internet, resulting in few incidents. This illustrates how Imperva helped us.

I would highly recommend others to consider using Imperva Application Security Platform, and I rate this product eight out of ten.

My main use case for Imperva Application Security Platform  involves using it in more than a couple of organizations where I was employed.

We used Imperva Application Security Platform  for web application firewall and API security in one of those organizations.

Since we integrate a number of external vendor products in our environment, most of these integrations occur via API, and hence we use Imperva Application Security Platform for API security.

Imperva Application Security Platform offers features such as Attack Analytics.

Attack Analytics has helped us understand what traffic is being received by our applications, and based on that, we have created the policies. The false positives have been reduced, saving a lot of time for us to work on other important tasks rather than wasting time on addressing those false positives.

Imperva Application Security Platform has considerably improved our web application security posture and it has also helped us design our applications with security as the primary concern. Before using Imperva Application Security Platform, we received many attacks, such as command injection attacks, SQL injection attacks, and even though we were using a niche web application firewall, we were not able to tackle those attacks. After moving to Imperva Application Security Platform, these attacks have been prevented significantly, and the attacks on the initial level have been considerably reduced.

We have not yet encountered any issues with Imperva Application Security Platform until now; however, improvements are always expected from the vendor. No major improvements are required, but it should still work on reducing the false positives. Although we do not receive that many false positives, some improvement is still required regarding learning the traffic while using Imperva Application Security Platform.

Nothing as of now because we have still not used all the features of Imperva Application Security Platform, but we are exploring it and in the future, maybe we will understand what improvements are required.

I have been using Imperva Application Security Platform on-prem as well as in the cloud for almost four years.

Imperva Application Security Platform is quite stable.

I do not have much experience with respect to the scalability of Imperva Application Security Platform because a different infrastructure team manages all these aspects; we, as a security team, are just using it for protecting our applications and APIs.

I had an experience reaching out to customer support for an issue with Imperva Application Security Platform, and it was quite good; they addressed the issue effectively.

If anyone is concerned about API security, then Imperva Application Security Platform is definitely a good choice.

Imperva is a trusted brand, and I have been using Imperva Web Application Firewall  on-prem and also as SaaS, but Imperva Application Security Platform is a next-generation cloud-based service that is quite helpful and powerful. Based on current attacks and the latest AI-based attacks, some improvement is required, but it remains a promising product that I would recommend to others.

I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.

Imperva Application Security Platform  is generally used for legacy-type applications that cannot be migrated to the cloud. A specific example of how I use this tool to protect legacy applications in my organization is that we have an intranet which has not been fully developed or technologically advanced enough to run in the cloud, so by having this, we secure it effectively.

Imperva Application Security Platform  allows you to enhance your application security posture. Among the best features that Imperva Application Security Platform offers, the policies are very dynamic, and it also has profiling at the application level that allows you to work in this mode.

I would like to highlight especially the ThreatRadar feature, which is an additional subscription, and ThreatRadar helps with threat intelligence by allowing you to block advanced attacks as well as mitigate risks more effectively.

Imperva Application Security Platform positively impacts us because we have a critical website, so by placing a WAF  of Imperva's quality, it allows us to have visibility and granular control over the various attacks that can occur on the website.

A concrete improvement I have seen thanks to Imperva Application Security Platform is that it has decreased the level of connections to the final server. The specific improvement is that the connections that reach the server are fewer because Imperva is already filtering them at the WAF  stage.

Imperva Application Security Platform could be improved if it allowed integration with Active Directory in the cloud, or if it provided visibility of user roles and permissions.

I have been using Imperva Application Security Platform for a little more than three years.

I consider Imperva Application Security Platform to be a stable solution.

I would rate the scalability of Imperva Application Security Platform as very good since it adapts well and you can grow independently because the interfaces support one and ten gigs.

Imperva Application Security Platform customer support has been very good; the ticketing platform allows us to have visibility of the case, and the staff makes the effort to respond quickly.

I did not previously use any other solution before Imperva Application Security Platform.

The advice I would give to others who are considering using Imperva Application Security Platform is to start with learning mode and then move to blocking mode slowly for approximately one week so that Imperva can identify the website and the connections that are made to it.

I have seen a return on investment with Imperva Application Security Platform, as it is generally associated with time savings, because the review of alerts and the visibility it gives saves us significant operational time. The clarification on time savings is that it refers to the time spent on alerts.

My experience with the pricing, implementation cost, and licenses of Imperva Application Security Platform is that it is high compared to a traditional WAF solution, but it meets expectations.

Before choosing Imperva Application Security Platform, I did not evaluate other options, as we went directly with Imperva due to recommendations.

I would rate Imperva Application Security Platform an eight on a scale from one to ten. Imperva Application Security Platform is a very good platform; even though it is not in Gartner, clients request it and trust the brand. I would rate customer support on a scale from one to ten as an eight. My overall review rating for Imperva Application Security Platform is eight out of ten.

The best features Imperva Application Security Platform  offers are for speed and protection. There is runtime and zero protection, and we have the sub and sub plus protection.

The speed and protection features of Imperva Application Security Platform help my team day-to-day by providing safe and clear access to the website. For example, my company is a multinational company that experiences many attacks, such as DDoS attacks, hitting the general website of the company before. The protection protects all of the websites in Imperva, so accessing the website is safer right now, not disrupted by DDoS attacks.

Imperva Application Security Platform has positively impacted my organization by making the website more secure. It reduces the DDoS attacks and reduces the attacks from threat actors, including SQL Injection and zero-day attacks, by using dynamic application profiling from Imperva. This is very helpful for my company as it reduces the incidents from the website.

I would suggest that Imperva Application Security Platform should include new features combined with AI. When I was using Imperva, it was not yet combined with AI. I believe that AI can now be used to make things easier, to track the attacks or IPs, or perhaps to determine the best configuration for each company that is using Imperva.

I would add that I have a unique observation about the features of Imperva Application Security Platform. For protection to protect more safely and restrictively, I have another use case with an internal website. This website is internal, and those people who want to access it can use the VPN or the internal network. I have encountered cases where a person from the internal company wants to access the website without using the API and got blocked by Imperva because there is a feature or configuration that allows specific IPs. I had to log all of the ways to access the web and allow only a few IPs from the internal IPs. I think Imperva is very secure, very restricted, and good for protecting websites, especially for internal websites and production servers.

Regarding improvements to Imperva Application Security Platform, I think all aspects of Imperva Web Application Firewall, including the UI/UX, are good, and I can operate it smoothly with the application. I give this product a rating of 8.5 out of 10.