Akamai App & API Protector vs. Imperva CDN

Imperva CDN

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai App & API Protector	Score 8.5 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
Imperva CDN	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Imperva CDN provides intelligent and caching controls, content and network optimization, application delivery rules, and high website availability, and is available as part of the Imperva FlexProtect. The Imperva CDN is based on resources acquired with Incapsula.	$0

Pricing

Akamai App & API Protector

Imperva CDN

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Free: $0
Pro: $59
per month
Business: $299
per month
Enterprise: Call For Quote

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API Protector	Imperva CDN
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Free Plan: Bot mitigation, content delivery network and two-factor authentication. Pro Plan: Includes Free Plan Features plus web application firewall, advanced performance, PCI compliance report, backdoor protection and SSL support. Business Plan: Includes Pro features plus blocks network layer DDoS attacks, blocks application layer DDoS attacks, auto-detection & triggering and supports custom SSL certificates. Enterprise Plan: Includes Business Features plus 24/7 support and uptime SLA, custom security rules, real-time event monitoring, load balancing and failover, infrastructure DDoS protection (BGP), manager service option and API access and custom brandings.

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	Akamai App & API Protector	Imperva CDN

Best Alternatives
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User Ratings
	Akamai App & API Protector	Imperva CDN
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	Imperva CDN
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	Imperva, a Thales company I recommend it as a WAF, but not as a CDN. There are better CDNs, in my case I use transparentCDN (now www.transparentedge.eu) and Edgecast (now Verizon CDN). Incentivized EA Edu Ard Sysadmin Read full review
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Imperva, a Thales company Reliability / Uptime Security Incentivized Josh Dix Systems Administrator Read full review
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	Imperva, a Thales company CDN functionalities are secondary and cannot be compared to a top-level CDN. The WebGUI interface of the dashboard is very improvable. They have been changing the UX for years and it is disjointed and with services that have not yet been migrated. The analysis of WAF attack logs is insufficient. It is difficult to analyze attacks of past hours, event filters are missing. It is complicated to analyze the chronology of an attack. There are extra modules to improve the attack logs analysis but they are expensive and add little. Incentivized EA Edu Ard Sysadmin Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Akamai No answers on this topic	Imperva, a Thales company Also TransparentCDN (now www.transparentedge.eu ) and Level 3 Incentivized EA Edu Ard Sysadmin Read full review
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	Imperva, a Thales company It's an expensive product if you have a lot of traffic volume, but I feel confident with their WAF. Incentivized EA Edu Ard Sysadmin Read full review
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