Learn more about Akamai Bot Manager
Akamai Bot Manager utilizes advanced algorithms, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to identify and mitigate malicious bot traffic in real-time. It helps organizations distinguish between legitimate users and bots, allowing them to effectively protect their online assets from various bot-based attacks, such as account takeover, credential stuffing, content scraping, and denial-of-service attacks.
Akamai Bot Manager Features:
- Bot Detection: Akamai Bot Manager employs sophisticated techniques to detect and identify bots, including signature-based detection, statistical analysis, anomaly detection, and reputation-based scoring.
- Bot Mitigation: Once identified, Akamai Bot Manager can take proactive measures to mitigate bot traffic, such as applying CAPTCHA challenges, JavaScript challenges, rate limiting, and IP blocking.
- Behavioral Analysis: The solution analyzes user behavior, mouse movements, navigation patterns, and other factors to distinguish between human users and bots. This behavioral analysis helps improve accuracy in bot detection.
- Real-time Monitoring and Reporting: Akamai Bot Manager provides real-time monitoring of bot activities and offers detailed reports and analytics to gain insights into bot traffic patterns, trends, and emerging threats.
- Customizable Rules and Policies: Organizations can create custom rules and policies to handle specific bot threats and tailor the bot management approach according to their unique requirements.
- Integration with Other Security Solutions: Akamai Bot Manager integrates with other security solutions, including web application firewalls (WAFs) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, to provide a comprehensive defense against multiple types of attacks.
Akamai Bot Manager is known for its scalability, reliability, and global network infrastructure, which enables it to handle high volumes of bot traffic and ensure minimal impact on website performance. It is suitable for organizations of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to large enterprises, across various industries.
Overall, Akamai Bot Manager helps organizations proactively detect, mitigate, and manage bot threats, safeguarding their online assets and ensuring a secure and seamless user experience.
Reviews from Real Users
Neha Shakyawar, Head of Information at a leisure / travel company, states that "The most valuable features of Akamai Bot Manager are the seamless integration and accuracy with which it detects the bots that can make attacks."
Another PeerSpot user, Staff Engineer at a retailer, writes that the solution is "Very easy to scale. Adding new domains or subdomains is a super easy process.", they also adds that “Akamai Bot Manager works effectively right out of the box. However, if you need to create custom use cases, you must adjust your settings and tools accordingly.”
Chief Technologist at a financial services company, says that "Akamai Bot Manager has more advanced rules that allow it to detect and block bot scrapers."
