Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 34 → 20 of 35
1 category · RankedImperva DDoS Protection
114Judge labels
4First choices
19Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in DDoS for enterprise buyers
Rank 3 of 58 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 43 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Imperva DDoS Protection →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business29 of 38
0%28 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market3 of 58
2%43 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 41
6%43 labels
accepted challenger
In ddos · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Imperva DDoS Protection for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS protection | Network and edge | 2% | 3 of 58 | 9% | 43 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Imperva DDoS Protection held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · DDoS · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 5 → 7 of 52
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDoS | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 3 of 58 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Imperva DDoS Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Imperva DDoS Protection across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct24 labels3
Paraphrase22 labelsNone
Comparative28 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained16 labels1
Negative18 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative114 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Cloudflare or Imperva Incapsula are the most frequently cited cost-effective starting points” Muse Glimmer 30B · DDoS · direct prompt · first choice
“Offers a powerful Data Security Platform. It is slightly more complex to configure than Cloudflare but offers granular control” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DDoS · direct prompt · alternative
“Imperva, Radware, NETSCOUT Arbor Cloud, and F5 Silverline are often selected when organizations want hybrid architectures” Perplexity Sonar · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative
“Imperva excels at combining DDoS protection with strong WAF and bot management for web applications.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DDoS · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Custom (high) | Enterprise-focused sales model” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDoS · budget prompt · hard negative
“Imperva (strong L7 + network protection)—great if you need custom SLAs, but pricier and more complex for mid-sized setups.” Grok 4.20 · DDoS · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“though pricing is likely higher than the options above” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DDoS · budget prompt · soft negative
“typically less budget-friendly” GPT-5.4 mini · DDoS · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Imperva DDoS Protection, over the 114 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Imperva DDoS Protection was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Imperva DDoS Protection, over the 114 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Imperva DDoS Protection was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Imperva DDoS Protection. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 104 of the 114 answers that named Imperva DDoS Protection and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
esecurityplanet.com79
radware.com77
cybersecuritynews.com63
indusface.com45
flowtriq.com44
cyberpress.org40
expertinsights.com34
geekflare.com33
myrasecurity.com33
sourceforge.net33
481 of the 481 domain citations in answers naming Imperva DDoS Protection came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
imperva.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Imperva DDoS Protection takes 2% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 82%.ShowHide
Search and answers
imperva.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Imperva DDoS Protection takes 2% of first choices and Cloudflare takes 82%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ddos protection service”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “ddos protection services”
6
- Searches for its name, Google
- 50 a month (“imperva ddos protection”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 417,309 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 20,176 · 3,001 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 21,050
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 3 of 58 in ddos
Segment leader
82%
Cloudflare
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 114 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 104 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on imperva.com
2,657
subdomains included
Content
2,319
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
70 · 7
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,714 | undated | WAF, DDoS | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 309 | undated | CDN, DLP | ||
| Report or ebook | 208 | 0 | 2018-04-01 | WAF, DDoS | |
| Case study | 50 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 10 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 10 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 8 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2018-04-01Threatradar subscription services report or ebook
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page imperva.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name WAF (72); 36 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Imperva DDoS Protection
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Imperva DDoS Protection; a claim can dispute any of them.
Imperva 33Imperva (by Thales) 2Imperva (Incapsula) 1Imperva / Imperva Incapsula 1
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The company
Imperva DDoS Protection is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Imperva DDoS Protection is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- DDoS Defense for Authoritative DNS
- For
- security and network teams
- Price stated
- Pricing varies based on customer needs. Contact for a custom quote. imperva.com/products/dns-protection
- Starting price
- 0.00 imperva.com/solutions/healthcare-protection/ddos-protection
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial imperva.com/products/dns-protection
- Customers named
- Top 3 US RetailerSA Power Networks
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Imperva DDoS Protection's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: imperva.com/products/dns-protection, imperva.com/solutions/prevent-ddos-attacks, imperva.com/products/ddos-protection-services, imperva.com/solutions/healthcare-protection/ddos-protection, imperva.com/resources/resource-library/datasheets/ddos-protection. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Imperva DDoS Protection's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Imperva DDoS Protection, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Imperva DDoS Protection by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Imperva DDoS Protection is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Imperva DDoS Protection, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Imperva DDoS Protection is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Imperva DDoS Protection is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideImperva DDoS Protection is among the products AI models recommend first in DDoS protection this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.