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"F5 Shape Security's most valuable feature is performance.""The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of configuration."

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"The drill-down into detailed views of network activity helps to quickly pinpoint locations and causes. All the information is there.""I am able to do a lot of work on the visualization end to create different visualizations and different ways to get information out of it.""In terms of the solution’s real-time visibility across our network infrastructure, I have not been able to find any other monitoring or netflow visualization tool that gives me the kind of information I get from Kentik. If I need to take a deep-dive into something that I see, it's really easy for me to do that. Whereas with most other things, I have to use five or six other tools to get that kind of data, with Kentik, I have it all in one place.""It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics.""The most valuable feature is being able to pull traffic patterns; to and from destinations. We're able to understand where our traffic is going, our top talkers from an AS set, as well as where our traffic's coming from.""One of the valuable features is the intuitive nature of building out reports, and then triggering actions based on specific metrics from those reports. It has a really good UI and the ability to surface data through the reporting functions is pretty good. That's helped a lot in the security space.""I really love the Data Explorer. I use it all the time to go in and craft exactly what I need to see. I'm able to then take that story and explain it to the executives. I've done that a couple of times and it is helpful.""We're pretty happy with the API functionality. It's web, and it's very simple to set up queries. It has served us well and you don't need to be an expert on the API or the product to set these things up."

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Cons
"I want the solution's custom exclusion rules to be more granular.""The tool's price is high."

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"I've checked out the V4 version of the interface and it's still a little bit clunky for me to use. I still go back to the old interface. That's definitely one that they still need to work on. It doesn't seem like everything that you get in the V3, the older interface, is there. For instance, I was trying to add a user or do the administrative tasks in V4, and I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to do that.""The only downside to Kentik, something that I don't like, is that it's great that it shows you where these anomalies lie, but it's not actionable. Kentik is valuable, don't get me wrong, but if it had an actionable piece to it...""They're moving more in a direction where they are saying, "Hey, here's information that you may be interested in or may a need," before the question has to explicitly be asked. Continuing to move in that direction would be a good thing.""I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement.""I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow data to application performance — tracing — so that we could overlay that data more readily. With more companies going hybrid, flow logs and flow data, whether it be VPC or on-prem, matched with application performance and trace data, is pretty important.""There is room for improvement around the usability of the API. It's a hugely complex task to call it and you need a lot of backing to be able to do it. I should say, as someone who's not in networking, maybe it's easier for people who are in networking, but for me that one part is not very user-friendly.""We asked for a way, regarding the potential networks that exist, to hook Kentik up with external tools like peering DBs to correlate things together and see what we can do... This is all in the [next] beta now.""I would like to see them explore the area of cost analysis."

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  • "The solution is moderately priced."
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  • "We have an annual contract with Kentik that we renew each year for a set number of licenses. We also have some burstable licenses which we can spin up and spin down, and those are paid as they are used."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:An aspect that sets automation apart as an attack vector is its ability to mimic legitimate user behavior and evade traditional security measures. Automated attacks can simulate human-like… more »
    Top Answer:One key component is the Shape Defense Engine. It sends telemetry to the Shape AI Cloud, a highly secure data system where machine learning algorithms analyze the data to detect patterns of automation… more »
    Top Answer:F5 Shape Security can protect web apps as well. It’s a bit complicated, but goes something like this: The platform employs a JavaScript-based collection of client signals to gather data on user… more »
    Top Answer: It offers a simple yet powerful feature of classifying applications, going beyond basic statistics.
    Top Answer:Hey Julia Navigating Kentik's pricing can be a bit like wandering through a maze blindfolded, but don't worry. My experience with Kentik has taught me a few tricks. First off, the pricing model… more »
    Top Answer:Customers usually need more information to effectively use this solution. So, simplifying it could be an area of improvement. Moreover, I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement. The… more »
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    Also Known As
    Shape Security
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    Overview

    The Shape technology platform, covered by 50+ patents, stops automated fraud and other attacks on web and mobile applications, including credential stuffing, account takeover, scraping, and unauthorized aggregation. Shape is one of the largest processors of login traffic in the world, protects more than 1.3 billion user accounts, and prevented more than $1 billion in fraud losses last year.

    Shape solutions leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning, among other technologies, to accurately determine in real-time if an application request is from a fraudulent source, and if so, effectively mitigate. As soon as new countermeasures are deployed, 5%-10% of attackers will typically attempt to retool and start a new attack. Shape solutions adapt and maintain full efficacy even as attackers evolve.

    The world's leading banks, airlines, retailers, hotel chains, and federal agencies rely on Shape as their primary line of defense against sophisticated cybercrime.

    Shape Solutions:

    Shape Recognize: Identify returning, known users of your website and reduce authentication friction for these users. This enables organizations using Recognize a persistent and secure login experience where good users face less login challenges while still increasing online safety.

    Shape AI Fraud Engine (SAFE): SAFE connects context across different browsers and devices used by the same user, as well as observations from across Shape’s entire network. This allows Shape's AI engine to drive down fraud each month as its engine consumes more data.

    F5 Device ID+: A real-time and precise device identifier using advanced signal collection and machine learning to assign a unique fingerprint to each device visiting your site. Simple deployment with immediate results for security, networking, and fraud. Better understand the unique devices visiting your applications.

    Shape Enterprise Defense: Invisibly protect every application from attack, fraud, and abuse. Defending the world's largest companies, Shape knows whether a request is bot or human driven and if the intent is malicious or benign. This allows Shape to prevent fraud in real-time; manage aggregated and partner access to applications and provide new data for better customer insights.

    Shape was recognized by Cybercrime Magazine as one of the Hot 150 Cybersecurity companies in 2019 and CB Insights 2019 AI 100 most promising artificial intelligence startups across the globe.

    Kentik's AIOps Network Traffic Intelligence platform unifies network operations, performance, security, and business intelligence. 

    With a purpose-built big data engine delivered as public or private SaaS, Kentik captures a high-resolution view of actual network traffic data and enriches it with critical application and business data, so every network event or analysis can be tied to revenue & costs, customer & user experience, performance & risk.

    Sample Customers
    Wells Fargo, Loblaw, JetBlue, Zoosk
    Pandora, Yelp, Neustar, Box, University of Washington, Zoom, Tata, and Cogent. 
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Healthcare Company10%
    Retailer7%
    Computer Software Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider38%
    University13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Music Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    Comms Service Provider7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise81%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business8%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise75%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise63%
    Buyer's Guide
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    F5 Shape Security is ranked 7th in Fraud Detection and Prevention with 2 reviews while Kentik is ranked 47th in Network Monitoring Software with 12 reviews. F5 Shape Security is rated 8.6, while Kentik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of F5 Shape Security writes "Easy to configure and blocks bot attacks for web users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kentik writes " Flexibility for creating reports and gaining more visibility is a definite strength". F5 Shape Security is most compared with Akamai Bot Manager, Cloudflare, Akamai App and API Protector, HUMAN BotGuard for Applications and F5 Silverline Managed Services, whereas Kentik is most compared with ThousandEyes, Arbor DDoS, SolarWinds NPM, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Datadog.

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