Name: Akamai App & API Protector
Rating: 8.6 (14 reviews)
Author: Akamai

Customer Success Management Training

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

AI Code Generation

Cross-Browser Testing

Product Analytics

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Enterprise Generative AI

Knowledge Management

Partner Relationship Management

Whistleblowing

Enterprise

Accounting

Subscription Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Recognition

HR Management

Payroll

Recruitment Automation

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

AIOps

Cloud Cost Management

Cloud Storage

Consulting and Advisory Services

Container Security

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Data Center Cooling

Embedded Database

Enterprise Architecture Management

Firewall Security Management

Fraud Detection

IP Address Management (IPAM)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Mobile Device Management (MDM)

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Simulation

Secure Email Gateway

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

App Store Optimization (ASO)

Appointment Scheduling

Audience Engagement

Competitive Intelligence

Content Management

Email Marketing

Email Testing

Event Registration

Gamification

Marketing Automation

Online Proofing

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Call Recording

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Lead Generation Services

Multichannel Retail

Sales Email Tracking

Sales

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management

Virtualization Security

Security

Apparel

Architecture

Commercial Drone

Mental Health

Oil and Gas

Online Ordering

Vertical-Specific

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Business

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Akamai Bot Manager delivers advanced bot detection to spot and avert evasive threats, and to stay ahead of the evolving bot landscape and stop sophisticated bots at the edge ― keeping them away from business networks.

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Bot Mitigation

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Resource Type - Web ACL

Resource Type - Rule

Resource Type - Request

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Apigee Edge is an API management platform now owned and offered by Google, since Google acquired Apigee in 2016.

Apigee Edge

API Management

API access control

Rate limits and usage policies

API usage data

API user onboarding

API versioning

Usage billing and payments

API monitoring and logging

Google

NGINX

Application Server

Application Servers

IDE support

Security management

Administration and management

Application server performance

Installation

Open-source standards compliance

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Tech Cares 2023

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.

NGINX Plus is presented as a cloud‑native, easy-to-use reverse proxy, load balancer, and API gateway, from F5.

Team

Advanced

NGINX Plus

Akamai App & API Protector

Likelihood to Recommend

If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've probably used Akamai's cloud platform.

Akamai helps businesses connect the hyperconnected, empowering them to transform and reinvent their business online. We remove the complexities of technology so you can focus on driving your business faster forward – enabling you to embrace trends like cloud, mobile and media, while overcoming the challenges presented by security threats and the need to reach users globally.

Customers trust our cloud platform to securely deliver high-performing user experiences to any device, anywhere. Reaching globally and delivers locally, The Akamai Intelligent Platform™, provides customers with unmatched reliability, security, and visibility into their online businesses.

Follow us at @Akamai, visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/AkamaiTechnologies, and check out our videos on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/akamaitechnologies. Also, read our Corporate blog at www.akamai.com/blogs

Reviews

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TrustRadius

Custom rules

Hard to configure

Web security

Home

Rapid7 InsightVM

Splunk Cloud

Tenable Vulnerability Management

Akamai Kona Site Defender (KSD), is not only a Web Application Firewall, is a suite of security and delivery products that any organization with a big web presence should have. Having Akamai Kona Site Defender in my organization give me the peace of mind that my web services are secure and we are monitoring traffic in real time with all the dashboards we need.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Things done well

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

Things done poorly

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.

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Fair Security investment
An attack impact would be higher
Support contract is not cheap

Return on Investment

Splunk Cloud, Tenable.io, Rapid7 InsightVM (Nexpose)

Other Software Used

Offensive Security Engineer Lead

Akamai Kona Site Defender 2022-06-10 09:57:11

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Akamai App & API Protector
Formerly Kona Site Defender

Overview

What is Akamai App & API Protector?

Akamai Kona Site Defender the most complete WAF in the market

Awards

Pricing

Akamai App & API Protector

What is Akamai App & API Protector?

Entry-level set up fee?

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Alternatives Pricing

NGINX Plus

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Product Details

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Comparisons

Compare with

F5 Advanced WAF

Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences)

Akamai

Cloudflare

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Azure Application Gateway

Akamai Bot Manager

AWS WAF

Apigee Edge

NGINX

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