Akamai App & API Protector vs. Radware Bot Manager

Akamai App & API Protector

Akamai App & API Protector

16 Reviews and Ratings

Radware Bot Manager

Radware Bot Manager

6 Reviews and Ratings

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
Radware Bot Manager	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Radware Bot Manager (formerly ShieldSquare) is a non-intrusive API-based Bot Management solution to detect, eliminate, and manage bot traffic from websites, mobile apps, and APIs in real-time. The solution leverages Intent-based Deep Behavior Analysis, device fingerprinting, and domain-specific detection technologies to identify and eliminate invalid traffic with zero false positives. The vendor states they protect users against automated attacks such as account takeover, application…	N/A

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Akamai App & API Protector

Radware Bot Manager

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Akamai App & API Protector	Radware Bot Manager
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

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User Ratings
	Akamai App & API Protector	Radware Bot Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	Radware Bot Manager
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	Radware All new upgraded non-human bot detection feature is widely used across all the platforms open for customers and it is a great success. It provides zero access to malicious bots. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Radware ShieldSquare provides an easy to implement way of identifying website users that could be bots. By rating the potential of the user of being a bot, we are able to handle that user in the proper way. False positives are extremely rare with ShieldSquare. Plus, their support staff is also available to analyze traffic to specific content, and they can customize their algorithms when necessary to optimize the performance of their solution to suit our needs. Ben Krueger Vice President / CTO 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	Radware It would be nice to allow for more granularity when selecting which bots I'd like to allow through. I contacted support and asked about this and they said this was in the works. If you select to show captchas instead of blocking, I feel their captcha screen could use some improvement on the UI/UX to make it more intuitive for users to know what to do. I contacted support and made them aware of this. Would be nice to see captchas information in the statistics (i.e. how many captchas were presented, from what IP addresses, how many were filled out correctly), Incentivized Dave Stack President Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Akamai No answers on this topic	Radware When I compared these two products, Distil Networks only offered a solution where their bot detection sits in between your website and the visitors, similar to how Cloudflare works. I didn't want this so I decided to go for ShieldSquare that uses connectors. I want my visitors to hit the website directly, not have something sit in between. Verified User Anonymous 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	Radware Network Bandwidth efficiency Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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