SecureSphere WAF Management for AWS (On-Demand)

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.

My main use case for Imperva Application Security Platform  is using it for web application firewall as the main objective for managing a web application that is handled by WAF  in the company that my company is working for. Protecting all threats or attacks from the web application is the main objective of the WAF .

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 have been using Imperva Application Security Platform for three years.

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.

My main use case for Imperva Application Security Platform  is the Web Application Firewall , which I use for firewall protection and monitoring 24/7 for suspicious activity.

Regarding my main use case, I first log into the WAF  applications, then access the Alerts section. In that section, I can see different types of activity happening in the firewall. I review each alert to determine whether it is legitimate or suspicious activity. I can also view the target IP address and locations, target servers, and the payload that the attacker was using in that alert. I can see the OWASP Top 10 alerts and the event timing to identify when the attack occurred.

Imperva Application Security Platform  offers impressive features. I am using the WAF, which blocks each alert based on signature-based attacks. That is the most impressive aspect I have experienced.

There are many alerts in Imperva Application Security Platform. For example, there is an OWASP Top 10 alert called SSRF, which is server-side request forgery. If someone attempts to access the server, the WAF blocks that SSRF alert, or RCE, Remote  Code Execution alert, blocking immediately based on the signature, not only by the payload or the IP address. That is very effective.

Imperva Application Security Platform has positively impacted my organization because every time an attacker uses a malicious payload or malicious signature that is already included in the signature database of the WAF application or Imperva application, the application directly blocks that particular signature immediately. This capability can help any organization achieve better security outcomes.

I believe Imperva Application Security Platform can be improved because cybersecurity is a field that changes every day, and different types of signatures are being invented. The WAF team should add more signatures, including basic and advanced signatures, on a daily basis. They need to understand this requirement and update their signature database daily.

I have been using Imperva Application Security Platform for almost one year and four months.

Imperva Application Security Platform is stable.

The customer support for Imperva Application Security Platform is very good.

I did not previously use a different solution; I have been using the WAF Imperva application for the last five years.

Imperva Application Security Platform has helped reduce incidents, save time, and improve my organization's security posture with specific measurable outcomes and metrics.

I would rate Imperva Application Security Platform a 10 on a scale of one to 10.

I gave it a 10 because it is useful for private organizations and it is very safe to have WAF applications, particularly Imperva Application Security Platform.

The advice I would give to others looking into using Imperva Application Security Platform is that it is safer to use or to have it. My overall rating for this product is 10 out of 10.

Imperva Application Security Platform  is used primarily for web application firewall security. My organization has a significant number of applications running through the platform, and to monitor those applications, we require firewalls. Imperva Application Security Platform 's Web Application Firewall  performs the deep inspection necessary for this monitoring.

Imperva Application Security Platform offers customization of security policies, allowing me to create policies tailored to my environment.

The rate limiting policy in Imperva Application Security Platform works based on usage numbers and has proven valuable for our operations.

Imperva Application Security Platform is user-friendly, and I can maintain a customized dashboard to monitor the utilization of all gateways in day-to-day operations.

Imperva Application Security Platform serves as the base pillar for applications to grant or deny access appropriately.

From a compliance perspective, Imperva Application Security Platform has been an improvement, as it has passed all compliance processes.

Imperva Application Security Platform could be improved by providing a more user-friendly dashboard.

I would recommend that support for Imperva Application Security Platform be enhanced to be more effective.

I have been using Imperva Application Security Platform for three years.

Imperva Application Security Platform is stable.

Scalability in Imperva Application Security Platform depends on the region. Imperva Application Security Platform can handle more applications or increased traffic easily as my organization grows. Currently, we are running approximately 1000 applications, and it can handle more.

Customer support for Imperva Application Security Platform is good, though it could be better. I would rate the customer support of Imperva Application Security Platform an eight on a scale of one to ten.

I did not previously use a different solution.

We have seen a return on investment with Imperva Application Security Platform, as we started with a few devices and gradually increased the number of on-premises devices for Imperva Application Security Platform.

The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Imperva Application Security Platform were user-friendly and good.

Before choosing Imperva Application Security Platform, I evaluated Akamai  WAF .

I would recommend Imperva Application Security Platform compared to Akamai  WAF. It has been good to use Imperva Application Security Platform, as I have been using it for three years. I would rate this review a nine on a scale of one to ten.

My main use case for Imperva Application Security Platform  is for WAF , application firewall, which is a web application firewall. I have my company's sites, websites, and our core application runs on it as well, so all traffic must first come through Imperva Application Security Platform  before it's routed to the application.

A specific example of how I use Imperva Application Security Platform for my core application involves dealing with all the unwanted bots on the internet and crawlers.

Regarding my main use case with Imperva Application Security Platform, it denies all forms of malicious attempts to the sites, including SQL injection, brute force attack, DDoS, and all of that. It denies that and provides information about it through logs that indicate which particular IP was denied and the region, so I have the location based on the IP. I can get the location of where the attacks or injections are coming from. Basically, I receive a clean request based on the rules I've set, made to the server, and then receive their request back, while the ones that are not clean are blocked.

Regarding other features, Imperva Application Security Platform has safe logging capability and, as mentioned earlier, it's primarily for my WAF , web application firewall. Any basic web filtering capabilities are there, and that's all I use it for.

The best features Imperva Application Security Platform offers include DDoS protection, anti-DDoS capabilities, and connection protection against different malicious web attacks.

Imperva Application Security Platform has positively impacted my organization, as before its introduction, I usually had a lot of logs on my router, with many foreign attempts from anonymous IPs trying to gain access, including a lot of brute force logs. The CPU of the router would struggle with what it wasn't supposed to be doing while legitimate users suffered. Since implementing Imperva Application Security Platform WAF, as mentioned earlier, only legitimate traffic reaches the server and the router to request what they need, and of course, the response is given. This allows us to accommodate more legitimate traffic, faster and more securely.

While I can't provide a specific metric at this moment as I'm not in front of my system, I can confidently say that we have significantly noticed improved performance in terms of latency, an increased number of requests we can handle, and a reduction in attack attempts.

One improvement I would like to see in Imperva Application Security Platform is the ability to fail over to different sites for my same application. I want to have my disaster recovery site, my current site, and my cloud environment, all different, about three sites so that I can load balance across those sites. It would be beneficial if that could be included as a baseline feature without needing a special license.

I also think about the ability of Imperva Application Security Platform to integrate its logs with various systems; the integration with SIEM  solutions is limited to certain types of OEM. I would prefer a situation where they are more agnostic in terms of log integration with SIEM  solutions, such as SentinelOne.

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

Imperva Application Security Platform is very stable.

In terms of scalability, I believe it's within their infrastructure; there has never been any downtime.

I use the channel partner for support and have never had a need to raise a ticket directly with Imperva.

Imperva Application Security Platform is deployed in a cloud solution, as I was provided with login details, logged in, and configured Imperva Application Security Platform, putting in my public IP. From Imperva, I received a certain CNAME that I placed in my DNS, so all traffic coming to my domain goes through that DNS, through the CNAME to Imperva Application Security Platform, and then Imperva Application Security Platform forwards it to my public IP. Therefore, I would classify it as a private cloud.

I have the impression that there is a return on investment; we enjoy cleaner traffic in our environment, and more requests are being served, indicating a huge return on investment.

My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the pricing is not transparent to me; it's what the vendors give, or whatever the channel partner offers that you can negotiate on. The setup process is pretty easy, and the vendor is very transparent in terms of support.

Prior to choosing Imperva Application Security Platform, I did not evaluate other options in terms of a proof of concept; I only did a feedback assessment on the internet.

I would rate Imperva Application Security Platform a nine on a scale of one to ten. I choose a nine because it has not failed me since I've been using it, and I've not had any attack. My advice to others looking into using Imperva Application Security Platform is that it is highly recommended and certainly worth trying out, at least for web application firewall purposes.