We performed a comparison between Akamai and Imperva Bot Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, Akamai, Microsoft and others in CDN."This solution can be used for web , video and media caching and streaming."
"Akamai has a very established network of PoPs globally."
"As of now, the best thing about Akamai is WAF, and though CDN is a good feature, it comes in second place when compared to WAF. I am very impressed with the WAF offered by Akamai."
"With 300 servers deployed worldwide, it's highly scalable and is the best web application firewall on the market."
"The most valuable feature in managing web traffic has been the ability to handle vertical scaling effectively."
"Akamai's scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature of Akamai is its ease of use and simple integration. Additionally, the solution has new aspects added to it regularly."
"The solution's technical support is very good...The installation phase of Akamai was easy."
"The stability of the product is good since I haven't had any problems with the solution."
"I am impressed with the product's automatic bot mechanism. It also gives us the control to create our own custom bot rules."
"The solution could offer more integrations."
"While it's great for solutions with high scalability, like global e-commerce, it's not really built for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It has too many options and can be complex for SMBs to utilize."
"When we open tickets, we have a delay in response times."
"I'd like to see more Web 3.0 and IoT solutions."
"Local connectivity would be great linked to our own telecom/Cablevision CDN."
"I'd like to see improvements in log files and data visualizations within the interface."
"The product's scalability can be improved since certain shortcomings regarding the security part of the solution currently exist."
"Akamai should improve its integrations."
"Sometimes, it takes a bit of time for the technical staff of the solution to get back to our company with a resolution for our problems."
"The tool needs to include artificial intelligence and machine learning. It also needs to improve profiling."
Akamai is ranked 2nd in CDN with 18 reviews while Imperva Bot Management is ranked 4th in Bot Management with 2 reviews. Akamai is rated 9.0, while Imperva Bot Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Akamai writes "An easy to setup product offering multiple useful functionalities under a single package". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Imperva Bot Management writes "A product that offers advanced bot detection capabilities and reporting features". Akamai is most compared with Cloudflare, Azure Front Door, Imperva DDoS and Amazon CloudFront, whereas Imperva Bot Management is most compared with Cloudflare, Cequence Security, DataDome, Human Defense Platform and Fortinet FortiWeb.
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