Akamai Prolexic vs. Imperva WAF Comparison


Akamai Prolexic Akamai	Imperva WAF Imperva	+	+
Learn More Update Features	Learn More Update Features	Add To Compare	Add To Compare


		Related Products AdRem NetCrunch NetCrunch is commercial, self-hosted, agentless network and IT infrastructure monitoring software for Windows Server. It monitors network devices, servers, virtualization platforms, cloud services, applications, websites, logs, telemetry, and network traffic across on-premises and hybrid IT environments. Network traffic analysis supports NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and other flow technologies. NetCrunch supports 680+ monitoring targets and provides 270+ ready-to-use Monitoring Packs for devices, applications, and operating systems. Licensing is based on monitored nodes and network interfaces rather than individual sensors, checks, or metrics. Real-time dashboards, policy-based monitoring, advanced alerting, and 40+ automated response actions—including remote script execution, service restart, process termination, and device reboot—support centralized monitoring and automated remediation. NetCrunch runs on Windows Server and can monitor infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, or across hybrid environments. 165 Ratings Visit Website Cloudflare Cloudflare is the foundation for your infrastructure, applications, and teams. Cloudflare secures and ensures the reliability of your external-facing resources such as websites, APIs, and applications. It protects your internal resources such as behind-the-firewall applications, teams, and devices. And it is your platform for developing globally scalable applications. Your website, APIs, and applications are your key channels for doing business with your customers and suppliers. As more and more shift online, ensuring these resources are secure, performant and reliable is a business imperative. Cloudflare for Infrastructure is a complete solution to enable this for anything connected to the Internet. Behind-the-firewall applications and devices are foundational to the work of your internal teams. The recent surge in remote work is testing the limits of many organizations’ VPN and other hardware solutions. 2,042 Ratings Visit Website PeerGFS One Solution to Simplify File Management and Orchestration Across Edge, Data Center, and Cloud Storage PeerGFS is a software-only solution developed to solve file management/file replication challenges in multi-site, multi-platform, and hybrid multi-cloud environments. With over 25 years of experience in geographically dispersed file replication, we help organizations: - Improve availability through Active-Active data centers (on-premises and/or in the cloud) - Protect data at the Edge with Continuous Data Protection to the data center - Increase productivity for distributed project teams with fast, local access to file data Today’s always-on world requires real-time data infrastructure with 24x7x365 availability. PeerGFS works with the storage systems you already have deployed and support: - High volume data replication between well-connected data centers - Wide area networks with limited bandwidth and higher latency PeerGFS is easy to install and manage. 27 Ratings Visit Website Veeam Data Platform Veeam Data Platform is a unified data resilience solution that helps organizations recover from cyberattacks and outages, and protect workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments – all without vendor lock-in. The platform includes built-in security capabilities designed to mitigate ransomware and other data-loss threats, including AI-backed threat detection across a broad range of workload types. This is intended to help teams identify and respond to threats before they disrupt operations. Veeam Data Platform supports workload portability across hypervisors, cloud providers, and on-premises environments, allowing organizations to move or recover data across infrastructure without being tied to a specific vendor or platform. For organizations looking to simplify deployment, Veeam Software Appliance provides a pre-built, hardened, and highly available option, reducing the manual setup and maintenance work required from IT teams. Veeam Data Platform is used by over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500. 1,265 Ratings Visit Website Thinfinity Workspace Thinfinity® Workspace 7 is a comprehensive, secure platform that offers a zero-trust approach, enabling secure and contextual access to corporate virtual desktops, virtual applications, internal web apps, SaaS, and files, whether they are on Windows, Linux, or mainframes. It supports various deployment models, including cloud, on-premise, and hybrid settings, and can be deployed on any cloud provider of your choice. With its proprietary reverse gateway technology, Thinfinity® Remote Workspace 7 ensures secure reverse connections over SSL with TLS 1.3 encryption. This robust approach doesn't require client-side installations, firewall modifications, or the opening of inbound ports on your network, thereby enhancing the security infrastructure of your business. The platform ensures all browser-based connections are secured over HTTPS, offering a wide variety of authentication options, from straightforward User/Password to sophisticated Active Directory authentication. 14 Ratings Visit Website Kasm Workspaces Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration. 127 Ratings Visit Website Auvik Auvik's cloud-based network monitroing and management software gives you instant insight into the networks you manage, and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. You get complete network visibility and control. Real-time network mapping & inventory means you'll always know exactly whats where, even as your users move. Automated config backup & restore on network devices means you'll mitigate network risk with no manual effort. And deep network traffic insights is a game changer. Whether you are a corporate IT professional or a Managed Service Provider, Auvik has a simple, out of the box solution for you and your team that only take minutes to deploy. 675 Ratings Visit Website NordVPN We help companies keep their networks and Internet connections secure. Our VPN service adds an extra layer of protection to secure your communications. We do this by applying strong encryption to all incoming and outgoing traffic so that no third parties can access your confidential information. Protect your organization against security breaches. Secure remote team access. Simplify business network security. Access region-specific online content from anywhere in the world 1,607 Ratings Visit Website GoAnywhere MFT GoAnywhere MFT provides secure managed file transfer for enterprises. Deployable on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments, GoAnywhere MFT software enables organizations to exchange data among employees, customers, and trading partners, as well as between systems, securely. GoAnywhere MFT was a recipient of the Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Secure File Transfer. 693 Ratings Visit Website Unimus Unimus is a powerful, on-premise Network Automation and Configuration Management (NCM) solution designed for fast deployment and ease of use. As one of the most versatile NCM solutions available, it simplifies network management with features such as: 🔹Disaster Recovery – Automated configuration backups ensure business continuity 🔹Change Management – Detect, review, and audit configuration changes with real-time notifications 🔹Configuration Auditing - Search and validate configurations and runtime state across your entire network 🔹Network Automation – Push large-scale configuration changes or perform firmware upgrades in minutes 🔹Compliance Reporting – Ensure adherence to internal policies and industry standards across your network devices 🔹Integrated Device CLI – Access device terminals directly within Unimus Supporting 450+ device types across 160+ vendors, Unimus is a vendor-agnostic NCM that boosts security and speeds network operations with no programming needed. 34 Ratings Visit Website
About Akamai Prolexic is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection platform designed to defend cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure against large-scale network attacks. It can be deployed as an always-on or on-demand cloud service, as an on-premises solution powered by Corero, or as a hybrid combination of both approaches. Prolexic routes incoming traffic through its protection infrastructure, inspects it for attacks, filters malicious traffic, and delivers legitimate traffic to protected systems. The service operates across 32 global anycast scrubbing centers with more than 20 Tbps of dedicated DDoS defense capacity, supported by Akamai's network with more than 1 Pbps of capacity. Prolexic provides a 100% platform availability SLA, a zero-second mitigation SLA, dynamic IPv4 and IPv6 mitigation controls, network-wide ACL and firewall rules, and 24/7/365 support.	About Web application attacks prevent important transactions and steal sensitive data. Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) analyzes traffic to your applications to stop these attacks and ensure uninterrupted business operations. A noisy WAF forces you to choose between blocking legitimate traffic or manually containing attacks your WAF let through. Imperva Research Labs ensure accuracy to WAF customers as the threat landscape changes. Automatic policy creation and fast rule propagation empower your security teams to use third-party code without risk while working at the pace of DevOps. Imperva WAF is a key component of a comprehensive Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) stack that secures from edge to database, so the traffic you receive is only the traffic you want. We provide the best website protection in the industry – PCI-compliant, automated security that integrates analytics to go beyond OWASP Top 10 coverage, and reduces the risks created by third-party code.
Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Enterprises, network service providers, cloud and hosting providers, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS companies, and security and network operations teams that need high-capacity DDoS detection, mitigation, and network protection across cloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructure	Audience Companies, businesses and website managers looking for a web application firewall to analyze traffic to their applications to stop attacks and ensure uninterrupted business operations
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Not Supported	API Offers API Supported
Screenshots and Videos View more images or videos	Screenshots and Videos View more images or videos
Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported	Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software	Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software

Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported
Company Information Akamai Founded: 1998 United States www.akamai.com	Company Information Imperva Founded: 2002 United States www.imperva.com/products/web-application-firewall-waf/
Alternatives Arbor Edge Defense NETSCOUT	Alternatives Fortinet FortiWeb Web Application Firewall Fortinet
Arbor Threat Mitigation System NETSCOUT	Imperva DDoS Protection Imperva
Lumen DDoS Mitigation Services Lumen	Imperva Advanced Bot Protection Imperva
Azure DDoS Microsoft	Imperva Application Security Platform Imperva
Radware DefensePro Radware View All	Myra Security View All
Categories DDoS Protection Supported	Categories Bot Detection and Mitigation Supported DDoS Protection Supported Web Application Firewalls (WAF) Supported

Integrations Azure Marketplace Not Supported BMC AMI Data Not Supported Buyer Discovery Not Supported Cisco ACI Not Supported Cloudera Not Supported DigiCert CertCentral Not Supported Gigamon Not Supported IBM Cloud Not Supported Intelligent Management Center Not Supported NTT Application Security Not Supported Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Not Supported PayPal Not Supported Praetorian Chariot Not Supported Proofpoint Cloud App Security Broker (CASB) Not Supported Qualys TruRisk Platform Not Supported Siemens Opcenter APS Not Supported SolarWinds Access Rights Manager Not Supported Splunk APM Not Supported The Reporting Solution (TRS) Not Supported Veracode Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 1 Integration	Integrations Azure Marketplace Supported BMC AMI Data Supported Buyer Discovery Supported Cisco ACI Supported Cloudera Supported DigiCert CertCentral Supported Gigamon Supported IBM Cloud Supported Intelligent Management Center Supported NTT Application Security Supported Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supported PayPal Supported Praetorian Chariot Supported Proofpoint Cloud App Security Broker (CASB) Supported Qualys TruRisk Platform Supported Siemens Opcenter APS Supported SolarWinds Access Rights Manager Supported Splunk APM Supported The Reporting Solution (TRS) Supported Veracode Supported Show More Integrations View All 32 Integrations
Claim Akamai Prolexic and update features and information Claim Akamai Prolexic and update features and information	Claim Imperva WAF and update features and information Claim Imperva WAF and update features and information