We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Fortinet FortiDDoS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"They have a fantastic tool for analyzing and viewing your traffic."
"Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"All the solution's features are very good."
"The product has a good UI."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"This solution can protect Layer 3, Layer 4 and Layer 7 attacks of applications for us."
"The most valuable feature is the cloud DDoS scrubbing capability."
"We have researched them all, and it's a good solution all around."
"The solution is very user-friendly and very easy to use."
"The product allows the users to adjust the thresholds."
"I find the interface easy to use."
"It allows me to see all the traffic on my network."
"It is a user-friendly product in terms of monitoring and updating policies."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"The performance of the cloud monitoring tool is low."
"The WAF features definitely have a lot of room for improvement. A lot of the WAF is really basic. For some products or some of our solutions, we need to run a second layer of more advanced WAF. If it had better layer seven protection then we would not need a second WAF."
"Akamai needs to focus on quickly responding to risks, even those that may potentially be of zero threat..Maybe some of the documentation is a little confusing. They have a lot of different places where you can go to get information, and some of the information is quite out of date."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"One area where Akamai can improve is the captcha part. Cloudflare provides a captcha if there are a certain number of threats. For example, I can assign that if there are 10 requests within a second from a single IP, it should send a captcha to the user. The user should fill in the captcha, and only after that, the user should be able to access our website. This captcha feature should be built into Bot Manager. I love this captcha feature of Cloudflare."
"I find that there have been issues in the past year with the solution hanging. It freezes often."
"All the thresholds that need to be configured should be included in the default so that user will not forget or misconfigure."
"The only thing they need to do is to automate it. Today, you must create tools that do not require the use of an expert or anyone with special skills."
"The solution can be a little more user-friendly and it can be more affordable."
"The tool needs to focus more on the area of application traffic management, where it currently has some shortcomings."
"There aren't really any aspects of the solution we are unhappy with. It's been a positive experience overall."
"The primary area for improvement is the on-premises capacity limit, currently fixed at 10 GB."
"The product’s pricing needs improvement."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 3rd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 27 reviews while Fortinet FortiDDoS is ranked 16th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiDDoS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDDoS writes "Offers good technical support but has poor scalability". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas Fortinet FortiDDoS is most compared with Arbor DDoS, VMware NSX, Radware DefensePro, Fortinet FortiWeb and Nexusguard DDoS Protection. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. Fortinet FortiDDoS report.
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