Akamai App and API Protector Valuable Features

Pranav Vashisht - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

The whole product is valuable. I cannot distribute it and choose one feature. It is very handy. It was easy to learn as well because I was a fresher, and I did not have much knowledge about DevOps, but within two to three weeks, I could learn what it is. It was easy.

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PallaviSharma - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

In regards to protection from bots, Bot Manager Premier (BMP) has helped us a lot in protecting our transactional endpoints.

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Bharat Chandra - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of DevOpps at Indian express

The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers.

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Akamai App and API Protector
March 2024
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Rahul_Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
GM IT at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable.

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Archana Heeralal - PeerSpot reviewer
Member of Technical Staff - Information Security at PayPal

Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection. The solution is quite cheap compared to Kona.

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Aman Aijaz - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager Global Security at Convergys Corporation

I would say that the solution has made connectivity a lot easier. Now, people can connect to websites very easily, and also, with the load balancing that the solution has introduced, one won't face that many DDoS attacks happening. Akamai Kona Site Defender has worked on the aforementioned areas since we used to face a lot of load on the original server earlier. Now after taking the service of Akamai Kona Site Defender, the load has decreased as it is mainly falling onto edge servers of Akamai. They have also put caching as a service, and so they also cache on their own. Hence, we don't have to take that much load on the servers. We can use the server load on the original servers.

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Archana Heeralal - PeerSpot reviewer
Member of Technical Staff - Information Security at PayPal

The product has a good UI. It is an easy-to-use solution.

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KE
Cyber Recovery Lead at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

All the features in the product are very good. The IP/Geo Firewall can block access based on the geographic location of the IPs. The product has WAF and custom rules. The tool provides DDoS protection and IP reputation. It is a good package. I recommend all the features to others.

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AK
Sr Manger DevOps at Foundit

The most valuable feature is that we are getting security for each and every API.

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Anoop Mohan - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable. We have to have something on the edge for protection. The majority of our traffic is routed via Akamai. So, it adds value to our security.

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BG
Network Administrator at Tommy Bahama

The ability to filter unwanted IP addresses is valuable to us. I'm pretty satisfied with the solution. The product has a good user interface.

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PradeepKumar9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Infrastructure and Cloud at Foundit

The WAF features are valuable to us. When I see the WAF features, there are a lot of categories and subcategories. You can see what attacks are happening on the system. The dashboard is the most interesting feature of the Akamai portal where you can have a detailed analysis of all the attacks that are happening. You can drill down an issue and see exactly what is happening, who are the bad guys attacking your website, and how Akamai is protecting the website. That is the most valuable feature.

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RB
Head of Infrastructure at AIA

I like that the charges are all based on usage and labor costs. For the time that we spend onboarding almost 252020 FQDN, Akamai charges us only for the traffic usage, but it's only charging us for the labor costs for onboarding.

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CF
Senior Security Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the custom rules feature. This is because many of our customers require a lot of custom rules. Because it's a very customized project for our customers, I think they have the best of everything already.

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Bill Lee - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architecture Consultant at Metaage

It is very easy to set WAF rules and defend paths.

The solution easily identifies, delays, or allows business traffic. 

There are many integration options available in one platform. 

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SZ
Chief Technologist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

They have a fantastic tool for analyzing and viewing your traffic. You could look for traffic spikes. You could search for spikes by IP address. You could examine traffic by IP address to see if there are any spikes from a particular IP address. 

It is an expensive service with many features. It's difficult, I suppose, to summarise it so quickly. However, it is relatively simple to locate and block IP addresses.

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AC
CTO at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's a SaaS solution and so it's scalable outside of our infrastructure. That's the most valuable thing for us.

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Neha Shakyawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees

If you compare it to other products in the market, it's quite holistic in terms of the features that it provides.

Technical support has been very helpful and responsive.

The solution can scale extremely well.

The product has proven to be quite stable.

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YA
Co-Founder and CEO at PT Eugenea Kreasi Utama

The features are powerful and better than F5. I would rate the features a nine out of ten.

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TI
Head of Cloud Security & DevSecOps at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it.

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IA
Solutions Architect, Cloud & SDDC at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The CDN and the WAF features are the best in this solution.

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it_user628032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Security Analyst at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
  • Caching
  • DDoS protection
  • Web application firewall
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GL
Security Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
  • It is scalable for DDoS.
  • Keeps our sites up through any size of attack.
  • It has a good breadth of controls.
  • From a general security platform perspective, it's quite nice. It allows you to have rotating blacklists.
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it_user299736 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a tech vendor

Cloud security solutions

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it_user298338 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems & Operations Manager at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a very good solution.

It's a clear cheaper alternative to others expensive CDN and DDOS solutions.

Many sites are working with Akamai now.

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Buyer's Guide
Akamai App and API Protector
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Akamai App and API Protector. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.