AKAMAI Bot Manager offers what they promise.
Overall Satisfaction with Akamai Bot Manager
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
Since I've been a former Akamai employee, I know there is a solid engineering team tuning this product daily and their back-end also is widely distributed through the Akamai CDN network. Akamai also offers good support through the installation and post-installation of the product and the product evolves constantly as the threats do as well.
Do you think Akamai Bot Manager delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Akamai Bot Manager's feature set?
Yes
Did Akamai Bot Manager live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Akamai Bot Manager go as expected?
No
Would you buy Akamai Bot Manager again?
Yes