We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Radware Alteon based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We are getting security for each and every API."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"The product has a good user interface."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"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."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable."
"The UI is user-friendly."
"It saves us a lot of work in terms of management since it has tasks already defined automatically. That enables us to better administer our services. It is very dynamic and easy to administer."
"The command line interface is simple and very user-friendly."
"I found the link load balancer and server load balancer are the most valuable."
"A user-friendly and reasonably priced solution."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"The best part is that we are able to manage it easily. It is easy to manage and easy to integrate with third-party applications."
"The health status information, with its highly detailed reporting, has saved us time on troubleshooting. We have the precise information needed that helps us find different types of situations."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"The interface is a little bit clunky and can be improved."
"Could integrate more features for each security."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"We are experimenting with EdgeWorkers to write our own code at the Edge level. It could grow to be much better."
"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."
"I do not see any area for improvement. Akamai is already maintaining its own databases for the security concerns, vulnerabilities, and attacks that are there. If anything, they should have a solution in the infrastructure security area as well. They should not be only in cloud cybersecurity; they should also be in infrastructure security."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"Scalability should be based on customer requirements."
"I would like this solution to have an integration tool that will convert configuration from other software, into readable values for this product during implementation."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"We don't integrate anything with it because most things don't integrate with Radware. If it were F5, we could integrate it. We can integrate F5 with practically anything that integrates with a load balancer, but that's not the case with Alteon."
"The user interface can be improved."
"We are having a difficult time with the security module, and how to implement the Radware security."
"The community portal does not have a place to find scripts."
"Their support can be better. The Radware management is very proactive. We can connect to anybody in Radware Management in India. We can even connect with the MD of Radware India. However, their lower level staff should be more proactive towards the customers."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Radware Alteon 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, F5 Advanced WAF, A10 Networks Thunder ADC and HAProxy. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. Radware Alteon report.
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