Akamai App & API Protector vs. Apigee Sense

Akamai Kona Site Defender KSD, works fine for any website or mobile application (Native/JDK), it can be used as a WAF, a rate limiting tool, or a bot management tool all in one, plus you will get all the benefits of the Akamai CDN (Content distribution network) as well

Incentivized

Deployment is very easy and the configuration is excellent and the Apigee Sense is ready to go. The platform has an effective centralized Cloud monitoring capabilities and the data visual analytics that are generated are useful to the business production. Excellent portals and the features are easy to custom when starting with the platform and the project documentation tools are reliable.

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• Web Security
• Bot managment
• Rate Control

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• Great documentation and Automation solution.
• Effective Proxy management.
• Data visual analytics easy generation.
• Simple reporting functionalities.

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• Custom rules might be hard to configure
• For some cases you will need to contact the Akamai team to adjust the backend
• Interface might feel laggy if used in a non-powerful PC

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• The Apigee Sense deployment to the new users is not an easy operation.
• Visualization analytics for complex project data.
• Cloud multiple services management.

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• Fair Security investment
• An attack impact would be higher
• Support contract is not cheap

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• The Cloud different services easy Automation using Apigee Sense is incredible.
• Functional Proxy management tools.
• Data analytics capability is the best.

Incentivized