Akamai Kona Site Defender the most complete WAF in the market
June 13, 2022

Akamai Kona Site Defender the most complete WAF in the market

Randy Varela | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Akamai Kona Site Defender

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.
  • Web Security
  • Bot managment
  • Rate Control
  • 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
  • Security
  • Content managment
  • Bot managment
  • Fair Security investment
  • An attack impact would be higher
  • Support contract is not cheap

Do you think Akamai App & API Protector delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Akamai App & API Protector's feature set?

Yes

Did Akamai App & API Protector live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Akamai App & API Protector go as expected?

No

Would you buy Akamai App & API Protector again?

Yes

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