Introducing
The Slant team built an AI & it’s awesome
Find the best product instantly
Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to Safari
Try it now
4.7 star rating
0
What is the best alternative to Modshield SB WAF?
Ad
Ad
Incapsula
All
10
Experiences
Pros
8
Cons
2
Top
Pro
Great value for the price
For a full ADC package Incapsula comes in at 4k a month, compared to Akami's 13-14k, it is quite the bargain.
See More
Top
Con
Scripting language and rules for IncapRules has steep learning curve
While there is a rules editor that offers a shortcut into rule definition, the learning curve to master how to utilize in full IncapRules is pretty steep.
See More
Top
Pro
Intelligently recognizes bots to counter layer 7 attacks
Incapsula has a bot recognition engine to achieve a low rate of false positives on layer 7 attacks. These attacks are notoriously hard to detect as they are designed to look like regular network traffic. Their always-on recognition solution automatically triggers layer 7 protection without user intervention, protecting you during downtimes like holidays, weekends, and late nights.
See More
Top
Con
Enterprise package pricing not listed
Potential enterprise customers will need to call Incapsula to find out the pricing for their enterprise plans as they are not listed on the site and appear to be priced on a case by case basis.
See More
Top
Pro
Instant propagation of security rules
Rules configured through IncapRules are able to instantly propagate to Incapsula's reverse proxy based global network. This is in contrast to DNS based systems that are subject to TTL/DNS cache delays, which slow down the propagation of custom security rules.
See More
Top
Pro
Real time dashboard
Incapsula provides a dashboard that shows traffic data in real time, allowing you to respond to threats immediately as they happen, and see the results of your response as quickly as possible.
See More
Top
Pro
Powerful security rule scripting through IncapRules
IncapRules is a full fledged scripting language that gives clients full and detailed control of security policies. The language provides access to dozens of filters for analyzing incoming traffic, including headers, client type, location, access rates, and more. There are also a multitude of trigger responses on how to deal with the filtered traffic, including alerts, captchas, and blocking.
See More
Top
Pro
Protects non-web assets
Incapsula has an extra layer of DDoS protection that also protects subnet network infrastructure, like FTP and email.
See More
Top
Pro
24x7 chat support
Incapsula chat support is always available. Chat can be much easier to use than phone support, as you can easily copy and paste technical data through text, and get instant feedback you don't get through email.
See More
Top
Pro
Massive network capacity
Incapsula's proprietary "Behemoth" machines handle 170 Gbps each, and process up to 100 million packets per second. As of March 10th 2015, they have a network of 13 data centers with these machines, allowing them to process more than 2 Tbps of bandwidth on top of their existing capabilities.
See More
Hide
See All
Experiences
Get it
here
16
0
CloudFlare
All
23
Experiences
Pros
16
Cons
7
Top
Pro
Very affordable
CloudFlare offers a free plan with basic DDoS protection and promises to always provide a free service with at least the feature set that it has today. More advanced DDoS protection is available for the higher plans, which can be added as your needs grow.
See More
Top
Con
Slow support
Even on paid (Pro) account, support often takes several hours per reply. So a single query can take days to resolve.
See More
Top
Pro
Works with static and dynamic content
See More
Top
Con
Practices Man-in-the-Middle certificate forgery
Https ("secure") comunications with sites using CloudFlare are intercepted at their servers, decrypted and recrypted with CloudFlare's certificates. This poses huge problem with what users perceive as safe communication - browsers fail to display notice about MitM taking place.
See More
Top
Pro
Automatic IPv6
See More
Top
Con
Lowers usability of the web for Tor users
Tor users are required to enter captcha at each site using CloudFlare. In some circumstances, this introduces unsolvable roadblock.
See More
Top
Pro
SSL encryption
As of late 2014 Cloudflare offers SSL encryption for all sites using its service.
See More
Top
Con
Relies on intrusive captcha screens to validate visitors
During large attacks, Cloudflare will block users with captcha screens to filter out malicious attacks. Albeit effective, they cause a considerable annoyance to legitimate users.
See More
Top
Pro
Handled some of the largest DDoS attacks in history
Cloudflare was able to deflect 2 massive DDoS attacks. During the March 2013 attack on Spamhaus, they were able to absorb a peak 120Gbps attack that lasted 4 days, as well as a 400Gbps attack in February 2014. Their track record shows their ability to protect against DDoS attacks in practice.
See More
Top
Con
Support doesn't have access to logs
Log access is an enterprise feature and priced at the "contact us" level. So when an error code is returned to the user that wasn't returned from your app, debugging this is impossible at the pro level. Unfortunately these logs aren't available to support personnel either so they have no way of tracking/validating issues.
See More
Top
Pro
Easy management interface
See More
Top
Con
Lack of cache control
If you want to cache all kinds of content (e.g. HTML, JSON), you need the "Cache Everything" setting, and this imposes a long "max-age" directive of 2 hours. It ignores your origin server's value.
See More
Top
Pro
Highly secure
See More
Top
Con
Layer 7 attacks must be manually identified
In order to enable layer 7 protection with Cloudflare, customers must manually press an "I'm under attack" button.
See More
Top
Pro
Anyone can add or update libraries
See More
Top
Pro
Has npm auto-update
See More
Top
Pro
Site enhancing apps
Cloudflare has a wide selection of app support that allows the user to install the app easily through Cloudflare instead of in their site. This creates ease of use, time saved and less degradation of performance.
See More
Top
Pro
Works with other CDNs
See More
Top
Pro
Page Rules are powerful
See More
Top
Pro
Railgun optimization for Business & Enterprise plans
Railgun allows caching dynamic and personalized sites, allowing for up to 140% performance increase.
See More
Top
Pro
Official WordPress plugin
Cloudflare offers an official WordPress plugin that allows for customization through the user panel.
See More
Top
Pro
Has tag based cache spoilage for Enterprise plan
See More
Top
Pro
Free service is Best
See More
Hide
See All
Experiences
Get it
here
35
2
Verisign
All
3
Experiences
Pros
2
Cons
1
Top
Pro
Thorough and customized set up process
Verisign uses a very thorough set up process that can take weeks. This allows them to customize the payees service to their site/s in order to provide the best protection possible.
See More
Top
Con
No 24/7 live chat
Verisign does not offer 24/7 live chat for customer service, only 24/7 telephone and e-mail support.
See More
Top
Pro
Signature analysis, dynamic profiling and filtering of the OSI stack are used to detect DDoS attacks
Verisign uses a multitude of tools simultaneously to detect security breaches and DDoS attacks. By using signature analysis and dynamic profiling along with filtering of the OSI stack (in order to detect DDoS attacks that are not coming from the network layer) Verisign can easily detect attacks to then alert the user as well as start mitigating the attack.
See More
Hide
Get it
here
2
0
Akamai
All
8
Experiences
Pros
6
Cons
2
Top
Pro
Large scale point of presence
Being one of the worlds largest CDNs, Akamai's large scale gives it a huge point of presence (PoP) to handle volumetric attacks.
See More
Top
Con
Expensive
Akami's services cost more than triple comparative packages from other security companies. At 13k a month for DDoS protection, there are many other choices out there that cost less for the same protection.
See More
Top
Pro
Deeply customizable rules
The Kona Site Defender rules are all customizable, with continuous updates from Akamai. This means you can see how they are protecting your site under the hood, and adjust them to your needs.
See More
Top
Con
Slower security rule propagation
Because of Akamai's large CDN structure, it can take some time for security rules to propagate, making it harder to adjust security responses on the fly.
See More
Top
Pro
Lots of dedicated bandwidth specifically for DDoS absorption
Through Prolexic's PLXedge, Akamai provides their customers with a total of 2.3 Tbps of dedicated DDoS absorption bandwidth.
See More
Top
Pro
Rules for rate limiting
Akamai provides tools for rate controlling traffic segments based on their request rate behavior.
See More
Top
Pro
Capped bursting fees
If a sudden attack sucks up a lot of bandwidth, the bandwidth costs are capped.
See More
Top
Pro
Application layer protection
Akamai utilizes a proprietary web application firewall in order to provide scalable protection against application layer attacks.
See More
Hide
See All
Experiences
Get it
here
19
3
Built By the Slant team
Find the best product instantly.
4.7 star rating
Add to Chrome
Add to Edge
Add to Firefox
Add to Opera
Add to Brave
Add to Safari
Try it now - it's free
{}
undefined
url next
price drop