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Akamai App & API Protector vs. Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai App & API Protector
Score 8.6 out of 10
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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
Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Fastly Secure (based on Signal Sciences, acquired December 2020), offers a WAF and RASP solution that protects over 34,000 applications and over a trillion production requests per month. Signal Sciences’ architecture is designed to provide organizations working in a modern development environment with comprehensive and scalable threat protection and security visibility. Additionally, Signal Sciences integrated BotSense service prevents bad bots from performing malicious actions against their…N/A
Pricing
Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
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Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
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User Ratings
Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
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8.0
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Akamai App & API ProtectorFastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)
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
Randy Varela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Randy Varela
Offensive Security Engineer Lead
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Fastly
Fastly has been the ideal CDN (Content Distribution Network) to solve and optimise the management of our content in our applications and portals; we have easily integrated its use, which has meant an increase in performance, a time savings in terms of management, and a saving of resources that we can use to make further improvements to improve our customers' web experience.
Rehan Kanuga | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rehan Kanuga
Data Analyst
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Pros
Akamai
  • Web Security
  • Bot managment
  • Rate Control
Randy Varela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Randy Varela
Offensive Security Engineer Lead
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Fastly
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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
Randy Varela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Randy Varela
Offensive Security Engineer Lead
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Fastly
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • Fair Security investment
  • An attack impact would be higher
  • Support contract is not cheap
Randy Varela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Randy Varela
Offensive Security Engineer Lead
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Fastly
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