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Akamai API Gateway vs. Salt Security API Protection Platform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akamai API Gateway

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AAkamai offers their API Gateway, touting easy control and access to enterprise applications via their services.N/A

    Salt Security API Protection Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    For API-driven organizations, Salt Security is an API security platform that protects internal, external, and third-party APIs. The Salt C-3A Context-based API Analysis Architecture combines coverage and AI-powered big data to discover APIs and exposed sensitive data - continuous and automatic discovery stop attackers in their tracks - block attackers by integrating with inline devices provide remediation insights - for developers to improve API security…N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    Akamai API GatewaySalt Security API Protection Platform
    API Management
    Comparison of API Management features of Akamai API Gateway and Salt Security API Protection Platform
    Feature
    Akamai API Gateway
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Salt Security API Protection Platform
    -
    Ratings
    API access control8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rate limits and usage policies7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    API usage data8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    API user onboarding8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    API versioning7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Usage billing and payments7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    API monitoring and logging9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Akamai API GatewaySalt Security API Protection Platform
    Small Businesses
    Amazon API Gateway
    Score7.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure API Management
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    OCI API Management
    Score7.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Akamai API GatewaySalt Security API Protection Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Akamai API GatewaySalt Security API Protection Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    It is really helpful for managing [the] scaling of systems with need and utilizing resources when needed. Also, DevOps support for deployment plans is quite useful when deploying applications. Monitoring systems with graphQL and utilizing them in APIs is quite helpful when used in Microservices systems to identify system capabilities and user utilization of applications.
    Incentivized
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    Salt Security
    Salt is highly recommended for anyone who wants to discover, monitor and protect their APIs against various types of attacks. Salt should not be used as a SIEM.
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • Graphically representation in GraphQL
    • Scaling system
    • DevOps management
    Incentivized
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    Salt Security
    • PII identification in API traffic.
    • Divergence between API traffic and documentation (swagger files).
    • Potential attacks with information to take counter measures.
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • Quota enforcement can be simplified
    • Caching mechanism for API with akamai can be improved
    • Gateway configuration can be simplified as details are not much elaborate
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    Salt Security
    • The platform could have more options for exporting detailed data from attackers' dashboards.
    • The Attackers dashboard could also have more options of filters in order to support the investigations of the attack.
    • The OAS analysis could present a more detailed view of the found issues.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    Akamai [API Gateway] helps better in terms of representation of graphQL and its consumption in monitoring system making a package for deployment speed with monitoring and scaling application with all services and utilizing most of a system without much knowledge of other aspects. Also, [a] user-friendly system helps people to handle [the] system with necessary options
    Incentivized
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    Salt Security
    We tried controls offered by the IaaS providers but these were hard to manage and did not provide the visibility we wanted. We also protected APIs with a normal WAF but this was only helpful for assets we knew about and API attacks were not caught by the WAF.
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Decrease in time required for deployment and monitoring by significant amount causing less support resources needed
    • Scaling applications on month-end at high usage time has reduced TAT time for issues and no of issues occurring
    • Quota enforcement has allowed [managing] multiple systems and their needs in respective stakeholders hands and reduced infra teams involvement in [the] management of reoccurring problems
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    Salt Security
    • Salt Security API Protection Platform has provided detailed information that is helping us to identify and investigate attacks in our environment
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