I use Akamai API Security. I downloaded a report comparing WAF Akamai and WAF Azure to understand the real differences. I studied the solution to comprehend how it detects bots. For example, with Akamai API Security, the browser inspector helps me understand the bot detection capabilities.
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Uses bot detection and browser inspection features to fine-tune access policies effectively
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I enabled the anomaly detection to understand the solution better. I configured the policies and created exclusions for some bots. For example, when I read and inspected the user agent data, I found that the Axion bot request was blocked by the browser inspector. In this case, I created an exclusion for the user agent Axion. I enabled the anomaly detection to study and understand the solution.
What needs improvement?
More features would be beneficial.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used it for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not experienced any stability issues. My experience has been good, and it is an excellent WAF solution.
How are customer service and support?
The support from Akamai API Security is good. The employment and support are of excellent quality.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is not expensive. It is practical to use and represents an excellent solution.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
The difference includes web application and API solutions.
What other advice do I have?
I received a report and downloaded it, but I did not read the entire document. I do not have complete knowledge to answer this question at this moment. My overall review rating for Akamai API Security is 10 out of 10.
Amazing for clearing cache
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of the Akamai intergration is amazing. I use it frequently throughout the day.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not found anything that i dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making my updates show up as soon as i send a request.
Best and secure alternative to a VPN
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to connect to the secure organisation environment, safe and secure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing it works well, we have not faced any chanllanges till date.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure connection to organisation network and to access its applications
promiscuous mode
What do you like best about the product?
The best part is the caching process. The way it caches in the nearby areas is really worth appreciating. I have been using Akamai CDN since quite a long time i.e. around 5 years till now and its doing great.
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now there is nothing much that I can think of as dislike in Akamai COntent delivery Network i.e. CDN. I believe they can improvise the plans though. But again, its not that necessary. Guys are doing great job
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like I said, Akamai Content delivery Network i.e. CDN is helping people to fetch data from the internet with lightning-fast speed. It helps organizations to aggregate more and more data in limited amount of time. Proxy services are also of great use
Great Cloud System
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai offers great cloud services with high security measures. It is quick and safe. the uploads run in the background and it is seemless. Their Ddos protection is alsot unparrael with what we use. the security they offer allows us to work without any worries
What do you dislike about the product?
there are times that the cloud system is down and makes for a lag. this does cause a problem once and awhile but it is quite rare it happens. when the issues arise the problems are usually solved within the 1st hour. Overall, it is still 1 of the most reliable services out there.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Akamai has helped reduce our yearly costs significantly. by using one company that offers cloud services and system protection, it has helped us keep our IT fees low and without any worries.
Intuitive, yet easy to onboard and work with
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is simple to onboard into your environment. The Dashboard is easy to navigate, and reports and overviews into security issues can be accessed quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Web Security was only able to protect ports 80 and 443 sites, so there were sites like Citrix Gateways that I was not able to monitor with Akamai due to the port restrictions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secures perimeter sites, plus easy access to Edge DNS plus SIEM Collector integration. Increased productivity.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We switched from Imperva WAF to Akamai and were impressed with how easy it was to integrate.
The best CDN - ever used
What do you like best about the product?
The speed, earlier days - I remember those days where I grab a cup of coffee when a link is clicked and after I come back, I get to see what I wanted. Akamai changed everything into Milliseconds and I've stopped taking coffee during work
What do you dislike about the product?
Akamai's cdn is a wonderful and thoughtful product. There is nothing to dislike unless if somebody wants to be too lazy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's the speed and security associated with it.
GTM is awesome!
What do you like best about the product?
Their GTM product is very flexible (rich apis) and stable. This was not the case with my previous DNS provider.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their support is not always the fastest. A couple of times, I had to nudge my account manager to push tickets forward.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a globally distributed application. We use Akamai's GTM to balance traffic across all the POPs. This will route end-users to the closest healthy POP to them.
Akamai is the Leader in caching and serving websites
What do you like best about the product?
Caching our web properties to make them available to the public en mass.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes hard to learn the new Property Manager over the Config Manager.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are serving our websites without have the load on the origin servers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Still the leader in providing caching for web properties.
CDN with a Reputation
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai is a trusted name in content delivery, and well known for their other products. Using their CDN services just feels good. Of course, it does not disappoint. Their UI is intuitive, and easy to use in general.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI seems a little outdated in terms of styling. Even with a solid product, they can't hang in terms of UI design with Cloudflare and the like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CDN services! It's nice to use Akamai if you also want performance monitoring and the like..
Recommendations to others considering the product:
USE THEIR OTHER PRODUCTS. They integrate seamlessly, so why not?
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