Akamai App and API Protector Reviews

• Caching
• DDoS protection
• Web application firewall

It provides our customers with offload and protection for their environments.

They should allow for multiple security configurations in one account which will enhance the scalability.

For business partners/resellers, there are minor issues that you can encounter when switching between the customer environments.

I have used this solution for around two years.

This product is rock solid. We did not encounter any outages in the two years that I have been using it.

From a managed service perspective, improvements can be made when you have to deal with multiple customers/environments.

Single customer environment: You may need to compromise in some features. For example, when deploying very large environments, that have different technologies underneath. (Ten or more sites.)

Multiple teams: There is only one security configuration that can hold several WAF policies and it can be shared among all sites. Each site can have its own site configuration. It can configure different aspects, as compared to the security configuration.

I would give the technical support a rating of 7/10. It is not consistent and it depends on the level of expertise of the support staff member who is assigned to your case.

The setup depends on the skill level of the 'customer'. If you are familiar with the concept of a load balancer and are familiar with HTTP SSL/TLS and all of their respective implications, then it is straightforward and intuitive.

First of all, in this day and age, DDoS protection is a must.

Akamai is a very reliable provider and a very safe bet that will suit most environments' needs.

This product is great, once it is fine-tuned. Be ready to spend some time to get all the noise filtered out each time you launch a new application on the platform.

Make sure you know how your applications behave. Have a solid grasp on HTTP(S)-related concepts and technologies.

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.