Akamai Bot Manager vs. Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

One of the most serious issues with commercial websites is dealing with bots. Even a good bot can slow down or render a website unresponsive. Because not all bots are evil, Akamai Bot Manager allows us to handle the bots that are required and those that are not. It adds an extra degree of security where typical solutions fail.

Incentivized

Finding specific Cloud Vendor specific Cloud resource configuration, tags, network information and etc. is fairly easy to do. Cloud alert capabilities are pretty good and with proper knowledge top notch alerts can be created. Only downside I can think of is ease of use.

Incentivized

• Bot detection
• Good selection of actions in case of bot detection
• Easy implementation of its standard features

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• Vulnerability assessment using Twistlock
• Enhancing Security by scanning workload based on different Security standards and provide a compliance report
• CF template integration with CI/CD pipeline to identify any security issue before workload are deployed
• IAM/UEBA features additional to enchaining security posture
• Auto remediation
• Integration is simple and solution is supported on multiple cloud
• Customized dashboard/queries

Incentivized

• Support might not be as fast as we want for custom implementations.
• At the beginning the interface might be confusing.
• Some new features they introduce might break existing features.

Incentivized

• Real-time supports would be much appreciated. At the moment they have a third-party ticketing support tool, which can be replaced with real-time support, which can be provided to the user at the time of the issue.
• The user should be provided with all the learning material by the Palo Alto team at the time of license purchase. This would save a lot of users' time, which is taken up by research and finding the correct documents from the website.
• Themes can be introduced in the feature set, which would help the user customize the software as per their needs.

Incentivized

It is no doubts about their functionalities and top-notch security features. The Products do really well in their every feature and gives you complete visibility to your valuable Data at all. The Support for the Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud is also one of the plus point where you gain the confidence into the product.

Incentivized

Security concerns call for the deployment of Akamai Bot Manager. It assists in preventing bots from being unable to target our website and applications. The Akamai lab rejects the request or attack before it reaches my cloud infrastructure or my applications. My application is more secure as a result.

Incentivized

Prisma Cloud stacks well with other similar Palo Alto products. UI is beautiful, has decent documentation and some trainings as in other platforms.

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• Reduce overall infrastructure maintenance due to less incoming traffic and leverage of caching rules
• Better user experience on the website due to better overall performance

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• Help reduce the cost by assisting what resources can be removed according to usage.
• Report the vulnerabilities.
• Time saved in investigating the issue.

Incentivized