Name: Akamai Bot Manager
Rating: 9 (13 reviews)
Author: Akamai

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Corporate Learning Management

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Fraud Detection

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MLOps

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Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Text to Speech

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AI Meeting Assistants

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Professional Services

Cross-Border eCommerce

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Lead Generation Services

Multichannel Retail

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Certificate Lifecycle Management

Security

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Plagiarism Checker

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Akamai Bot Manager has proven to be a valuable solution for users looking to enhance the security of their enterprise websites and effectively manage bot traffic. With the ability to stop bot-related attacks and filter out non-human traffic, this product offers an additional layer of protection. Users have praised the behavioral-based alerts feature, which allows them to create customized alerts based on bot behavior and take appropriate actions to mitigate attacks.

One of the key use cases of Akamai Bot Manager is its ability to help users differentiate between bot traffic and real user traffic. This visibility into bot activity versus genuine visitors enables users to make informed decisions about their website's security. In addition, users have found the range of options offered by the product, such as tarpit or delay, to be effective in managing bot traffic.

Another important use case of Akamai Bot Manager is its contribution to improving website performance. By serving cached content to bots, even those attempting to break caching rules, this product helps increase website speed and efficiency. Users have reported significant improvements in performance after implementing Akamai Bot Manager.

Furthermore, the product's integration capabilities with users' devops stack through self-service APIs have been highly appreciated. This feature allows for automated endpoint management and seamless integration with existing workflows.

While customers acknowledge the value provided by Akamai Bot Manager, it is worth noting that implementing and fully utilizing the product may require extensive knowledge and expertise. Additionally, some users have mentioned that the cost of the solution is relatively high. However, considering its effectiveness in preventing scrapers and malicious internet traffic, many users find it well worth the investment.

Effective bot traffic mitigation: Several users have found that the bot manager effectively mitigates bot traffic, categorizing it into different categories. This feature has been praised by multiple reviewers as it helps in managing alerts and creating behavior-based incidents to mitigate attacks.

Identification of good bot traffic: Users appreciate the ability of the bot manager to identify good bot traffic declared by the customer. This capability allows for better management and understanding of the overall traffic, according to multiple reviewers.

Intuitive and flexible console: The intuitive and flexible nature of the bot console has received praise from users. Multiple reviewers have highlighted its ease of navigation and the ability to view all necessary statistics conveniently.

Ineffective Blocking of High Surge in Bot Traffic: Some users have found that Akamai's bot manager does not always effectively block a significant increase in bot traffic, requiring manual intervention for effective traffic mitigation.

False Positives and Need for Numerous Exceptions: Concerns have been raised about the occurrence of false positives in the system when it is not properly tuned. This may result in the need to apply numerous exceptions to meet the specific requirements of different teams.

Lack of Visibility on Thresholds: Customers have expressed frustration regarding the lack of visibility into certain thresholds, such as session validation. This necessitates reaching out to the Akamai team for clarification and obtaining the necessary threshold information.

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 software protects website and web apps from malicious traffic and use carried out by bots. These unwanted activities may include credential theft, content scraping or intellectual property theft, or resource hoarding on ecommerce sites. Malicious bots are the most frequent threat faced by popularly trafficked websites.

Bot Mitigation

Likelihood to Recommend

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Arkose Labs

Offensive Security Engineer Lead

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Mobile apps

Existing features

False positives

Easy implementation

Standard features

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Bot Mitigation Software

Akamai Bot Manager helps me and my customers to gain visibility over the bot traffic vs the real traffic and take the appropriate actions, besides being black or white ( deny/allow) it has another set of options very useful for our infrastructures such as tarpit or delay. Akamai Bot Manager is easy to install on websites and even mobile applications through the SDK package.

Detects bots traffic.
Take actions over the bot traffic.
Proactively protects agains known bad bots.

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.

Bot detection
Bot reputation
Custom actions

Good ROI over the first month.
Gain visibility over bot traffic.
Protect websites and mobile applications.

Arkose Labs, Cloudflare, Imperva Advanced Bot Protection (formerly Distil Networks) and F5 Advanced Web Application Firewall

Akamai Bot Manager provides a fantastic solution that we can handle with a small but capable devops team. They have increased the availability of self-service APIs, allowing us to automate Akamai endpoint management through our completely programmatic devops stack, CI, and CD. The Akamai Bot Manager solution is expensive and takes extensive knowledge to fully utilise.

To identify the bots, Akamai Bot Manager has already classified over 3000 bot signatures.
The bot console is simple to use and versatile.
The custom bot can be constructed based on your specifications and added to the existing bot database.

If not correctly calibrated, you may receive a lot of false positives.
We had to make a lot of exceptions because various teams had different needs.
BMP is expensive due to its advanced detection, yet it has the potential to thwart many botnet-based attacks.

Great detection of bots
Manually Can Select OF Each Bots
Easily monitor

get awareness of bot traffic.
Websites and mobile apps should be protected.
assist in preventing credential stuffing attacks launched by BOTS.

We helped one of our customers implement Akamai Bot Manager in their main website (including e-Commerce) to avoid scrapers and malicious internet traffic coming from all over the world. It also helped increase the website performance by serving cached content to bots that tried breaking standard caching rules.

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

Bots are created all the time, so sometimes the heuristics used by the solution can detect false positives
For Mobile Apps, you need and external SDK (Akamai BMP)

Big Database of known bots
Action selection for each bot

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

Akamai Bot Manager

Overview

What is Akamai Bot Manager?