Akamai App and API Protector Reviews

We use Akamai Kona for our cloud services.

The features are powerful and better than F5. I would rate the features a nine out of ten.

Support and the pricing need to improve. I would rate this area a six out of ten.

Technical support is very slow to respond.

Previously, we were not using any other solution.

Akamai is very expensive. It is more expensive than F5.

I would rate Akami Kona Site Defender a seven out of ten.

We use it for website protection.

In terms of mean time to detect, what we usually see is that it mitigates. It has also improved staff productivity be about 20 percent.

• It is scalable for DDoS.
• Keeps our sites up through any size of attack.
• It has a good breadth of controls.
• From a general security platform perspective, it's quite nice. It allows you to have rotating blacklists.

• I would like to see some non-related reputation categories. If they had some way of detecting activity on their platform, that would be helpful.
• Web request analytics is hard to do between them and us.
• There are some issues with pushing configurations across a network. It still takes about 20 minutes and that means to retract it's another 20 minutes.
• Also, some of their monitoring dashboards that show us what's hitting us, and with which we analyze, have room for improvement.

It has been very stable. We've had no problems with it.

Technical support has been wonderful for us.

Before Akamai we didn't have a solution. With Akamai, we get the speed we need.

I don't have discrete datapoints, but there is an advantage to having this kind of service where we don't have to track things ourselves.

Keep your eyes open. There are a lot of solutions out there. You can even see products being deployed in the public cloud, which is nice for scaling up. Keep your eyes on the horizon. There's a lot to look forward to.

For Kona, we use several products, including their Site Acceleration Services. Our security maturity is very different from when we first started using Akamai.

Cloud security solutions

Site Defender service helps prepare, respond, and optimize against modern-day web attacks.

Cloud security solutions combination

It's a very good solution.

It's a clear cheaper alternative to others expensive CDN and DDOS solutions.

Many sites are working with Akamai now.

I've been working with them for 10 months.

Excellent and quick support.

Excellent and quick support.