Akamai App & API Protector vs. Haltdos WAF - Community Edition (Open-Source)

Akamai App & API Protector

16 Reviews and Ratings

Haltdos WAF - Community Edition (Open-Source)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai App & API Protector	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Akamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.	N/A
Haltdos WAF - Community Edition (Open-Source)	N/A	N/A	Haltdos offers a web application firewall as free to access for all, in the form of Haltdos Community Edition (CE). The Community Edition provides 360 degrees of website security from OWASP 10 threats, XSS, SQL and other web-based threats. Haltdos WAF CE allows every website owner the capability to defend their applications against growing cyber attacks and ensure the security of their data and customers.	N/A

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Akamai App & API Protector

Haltdos WAF - Community Edition (Open-Source)

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Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API Protector	Haltdos WAF - Community Edition (Open-Source)
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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User Ratings
	Akamai App & API Protector	Haltdos WAF - Community Edition (Open-Source)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	Haltdos WAF - Community Edition (Open-Source)
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai 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 Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Haltdos No answers on this topic
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Haltdos No answers on this topic
Cons	Akamai 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 Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Haltdos No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Akamai Fair Security investment An attack impact would be higher Support contract is not cheap Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Haltdos No answers on this topic
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