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How Wallarm Delivers Better API Security than Imperva

Learn how Wallarm outperforms Imperva on key technical and operational aspects required for robust API security.
"Switching from Imperva to Wallarm was a game-changer for our Kubernetes migration from bare metal. Wallarm's seamless integration and scalability have given us peace of mind and a robust security posture as we evolve. It's not just a product; it's a partnership."— Raiffeisen Bank
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Is your current Imperva WAF still fit to purpose?

The Wallarm Integrated Application and API Protection platform outperforms Imperva in several key aspects:

Wallarm provides superior application and API protection, as demonstrated via rigorous head-to-head testing using the open-source GoTestWAF assessment tool.

Wallarm supports deeper request parsing for various data formats, enabling threat detection at any level of encoding.

Wallarm offers flexible deployment options, including support of modern microservices architectures.

Wallarm maintains consistent functionality across various distributed infrastructures, ensuring unwavering protection.

Wallarm delivers a complete, integrated platform for WAF and API protection, avoiding multi-product API security stacks which add technical and operational complexity.

Wallarm bolsters API security with integrated production (real-time) and development (CI/CD) testing capabilities.

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How Wallarm Outperforms Imperva

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Imperva
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Imperva

Unified API Protection

The Wallarm integrated platform provides advanced API threat protection across all of your assets with advanced detection and response, while securing your environments from API vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
Imperva's API protection has improved with recent acquisitions, but at the cost of added complexity. For instance, the acquired capabilities cannot be deployed on-prem, limiting ability to protect internal APIs., and feature parity and workflow management differ between products.
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Imperva

Time to value

Wallarm provides protection for APIs from the second it's deployed. No specs or configuration required. 88% of Wallarm customers use it in blocking mode.
Customers say tuning takes time and man hours before you use protection in a blocking mode. Imperva requires API specs be uploaded before it can protect APIs.
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Imperva

Simplified Protection

The Wallarm integrated platform provides full-spectrum protection for both apps and APIs. It enables observability, detection and real-time mitigation, analyzing both internal (east-west)and external (north-south) traffic.
Imperva's flagship cloud service deploys via CDN, which limits use to exposed apps and APIs only. The separately deployed on-prem product provides different coverage, capabilities and management console, which leads to coverage gaps and workflow issues, and adds significant complexity.
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Imperva

Cloud-native and IaC

Wallarm elegantly deploys in any environment to protect thousands of exposed and internal workloads: in datacenters, in private, public or multi-cloud, or in K8s-based environments. Integrates natively into API gateways like Kong, MuleSoft, NGINX, etc.
Imperva’s cloud service assumes you route traffic into their cloud, which becomes a point-of-failure, source of latency and subject to security incidents. And the on-prem product doesn't have the same capabilities as the cloud product.

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Complete protection without blindspots

  • Wallarm provides real-time protection for API related threats (including OWASP Top-10 API Security) and covers a full set of API protocols.
  • Imperva provides basic protection for APIs and doesn’t address crucial API threats.
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Imperva
OWASP Top 10 attacks - WAAP
OWASP Top 10 API Security
L7 DDoS Protection
Bot Mitigation for apps
Bot Mitigation for APIs
API Abuse Prevention
Full API protocol support (graphQL, gRPC, WebSocket, REST)

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