Incapsula Review

For a full ADC package Incapsula comes in at 4k a month, compared to Akami's 13-14k, it is quite the bargain.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Incapsula has an extra layer of DDoS protection that also protects subnet network infrastructure, like FTP and email.

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.

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.