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Apigee Edge vs. Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apigee Edge

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AApigee Edge is an API management platform now owned and offered by Google, since Google acquired Apigee in 2016.N/A

    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThe Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF) is based on technology acquired with Incapsula and the former WebSphere WAF.N/A
    Pricing
    Apigee EdgeImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Apigee EdgeImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Apigee EdgeImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Apigee Edge and Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Feature
    Apigee Edge
    9.4
    7 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Imperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    -
    Ratings
    API access control9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    API usage data9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    API user onboarding9.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    API versioning9.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging9.97 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Apigee EdgeImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Apigee EdgeImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Apigee EdgeImperva Web Application Firewall (WAF)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Few scenarios 1. For viewing API analytics, I think it is best in the market 2. For earning money via API monetization 3. Securing API 4. Onboarding legacy APIs to provide modern REST endpoints
    Incentivized
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    Imperva web application firewall does a great job in giving us control over access to our public web servers. With our regular hosting provider, we couldn't block access based on geography, or really anything. So we had to rely on traditional access controls to protect the data. But with the WAF, we can block countries such as North Korea, or we could stop any SQL Injection attempts, or even do a temporary block of IP in the case of detected brute-forcing.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Better exception handling with the Raise exception policies help to monitor the flow by setting up the flow conditions.
    • Easy development of a Proxy and APIs with much less tutoring and helps make getting started for new users easy.
    • Very good documentation and blog with details of most common failures and error handling.
    • A very very easy to use console.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Alert Aggregation - Correlates different violations into perceived correlated attacks.
    • Ease of deployment - as one of the only WAFs that allow bridge mode deployment, this can be deployed with without downtime and no Network Architecture modifications. If the need for proxy is required at a later time, Transparent Reverse Proxy can be deployed within seconds and minimal configuration.
    • Custom Policies - Custom security policies are easy to configure.
    • Reporting - There are a good amount of pre-configured reports available by default.
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    Cons
    Google
    • Only one user can be active in a proxy at a time
    • No version control
    • Prohibited from using JSON.stringify on Apigee objects (tokens)
    • Debugging is difficult
    • Unable to rename or delete policies without bumping revision
    • Why would anyone give a js policy one name, display name something else, and script a different name?
    • 'Trace' limited to only 20 transactions
    • UI allows users to add target servers, but users must utilize the api to turn on SSL.
    • I'm sure there's more, they just aren't coming to mind right now.
    • Apigee forgets (expires?) your password at random intervals without notice. Every few weeks, or days, sometimes even three times in one day, I'll attempt to login to Apigee and my password will be 'wrong'. I've reset my password and Apigee still claims it's wrong. I've had to reset my password three times before it finally let me log back in.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • The UI can use a little work (but is largely decent)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    I am not the one deciding whether to use apigee or not really. But personally, I would recommend the use of it as developing APIs on it is easy. And as a mediator between backend servers, we could easily modify request and responses in it without touching any backend code while having a centralize gateway to access our backend APIs too.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Google
    Support has helped us to resolved all the queries and community support was also good.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    There are just a couple of points that are hard to find, that probably could be elsewhere. But these are minor; everything else is right where you'd expect it to be.
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    Support Rating
    Google
    Quite hard to get support, at least on the coding side, when we encounter blockers. But general concerns, they would schedule a call to you for them to get a whole picture of your concern. Albeit in my experience, bad really as they haven't replied about the progress, but otherwise seems to have been fixed.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    We haven't needed support from Imperva since implementation. But during that time, their personnel were very quick to respond to questions. Since then, it's been largely doing its thing for us (which is exactly what we'd hoped).
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Apigee is the best in the market in terms of API Analytics Apigee is having wonderful Documentation with short videos Security is a major concern and Apigee provides an easily configurable policy to secure API Quota and rate-limit is again very easy to configure on every API basis It provides various policies to transform the response from one form to another form e.g. JSON to XML or XML to JSON
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    Ultimately, it was the easiest to work with that was still a "known" company (we've been burned too many times by up-and-comers). We needed something that gave us a lot of control but then didn't need its handheld on a daily basis. Imperva gives us a lot of that and we are still able to navigate it with ease.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • As a public entity it is hard to say how much ROI we can have. We have yet to create a billing and ROI plan. We are thinking of other ways to create ROI, possibly through data/service barter.
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    Imperva, a Thales company
    • Meet compliance requirements - Check.
    • Better Insight into web application - Absolutely great, checks all the traffic against RFC standards and will alert on common development mistakes that duplicate application traffic or provide attack vectors for potential attackers.
    • Have had several issues blocking a customer without producing alerts, while it happened only one week out of 2 years of working with the devices, it did produce a lot of headaches.
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