We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and SonicWall Web Application Firewall 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."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable."
"They have a fantastic tool for analyzing and viewing your traffic."
"Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"It gives us a report of traffic. It gives us a report of the day-to-day URL traffic, and it also gives an individual report. If we reach out to Akamai, they give us the IPs as well."
"The product has a good user interface."
"It enables us to move faster with new products because we have this layer of protection set up in our infrastructure."
"The solution offers better data protection than competitors."
"We use SonicWall Web Application Firewall for security and tunneling."
"Capture ATP is a good additional feature in the latest version."
"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 product should provide a secure NTP."
"Could integrate more features for each security."
"It would be nice if Akamai Web Application Protector's price is lowered and made cheaper."
"We are experimenting with EdgeWorkers to write our own code at the Edge level. It could grow to be much better."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"There are some issues with pushing configurations across a network. It still takes about 20 minutes and that means to retract it's another 20 minutes."
"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."
"We should get the logs from the solution, and it should communicate with the local DNS."
"The solution needs an access management feature with API integration so we can assign certain levels of access within groups."
"We have a lot of unknown errors popping up in the latest version."
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Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while SonicWall Web Application Firewall is ranked 25th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while SonicWall Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. 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 SonicWall Web Application Firewall writes "A stable and durable solution that can be used for security and tunneling". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas SonicWall Web Application Firewall is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. SonicWall Web Application Firewall report.
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