We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"The solution easily identifies, delays, or allows business traffic."
"The product has a good UI."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"I can attest to its benefits in terms of understanding and mitigating threats...The solution's technical support team seems to be pretty responsive."
"Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"Since we are using this tool for protection purposes we really appreciate the hybrid security abilities; the main idea here is that we powerful protection our application needs."
"It's fine for a simple tool, but as I recall, if you encounter a lot of bots, scrapers, and other things, you'll need this tool bot and this other thing they offer called Bot Manager."
"In terms of precedence of Akamai rules, the last one is implemented. That is the one that is operational. If two rules contradict, the last one is implemented. We had a clash, but it was really tough to find that out. I would like to have a rulebook because, in their architecture documentation, it is not mentioned anywhere that if two rules clash, the last one works, and if it does not work, then what to do. This is something we were debating today with their tech support. With AWS, we get documents for the issues so that they do not occur in the future. Akamai's support and knowledge base needs to be improved."
"The custom rules must be improved."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"The product should provide a secure NTP."
"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 They have a lot of different places where you can go to get information, and some of the information is quite out of date."
"Akamai App and API Protector is very new to me, so I do not have any insights on improvement areas for the product. However, when we ask for some help, it can take some time. We understand that the job is done by professionals, but if that time can be reduced, it would be great."
"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."
"There is a need for expanded licensing terms and options. There's also a need for improved and more agile customization features. The user needs to be able to manage each policy as required; the functionality needs to empower the user. There should be a complete suite of desktop provider policies available to users. Overall, it needs to be more user-friendly."
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Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is ranked 41st in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is rated 7.0. 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 NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall writes "Offers Application Protection Against Web Attacks". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas NSFOCUS Web Application Firewall is most compared with .
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