Akamai App & API Protector vs. ModSecurity

Akamai App & API Protector

16 Reviews and Ratings

ModSecurity

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai App & API Protector	Score8.5 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
ModSecurity	N/A	N/A	ModSecurity is a free and open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx that is developed by Trustwave's SpiderLabs. It has event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis.	$0

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Akamai App & API Protector

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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User Ratings
	Akamai App & API Protector	ModSecurity
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	ModSecurity
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	Open Source No answers on this topic
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Open Source 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	Open Source 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	Open Source No answers on this topic
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