Akamai Bot Manager pros and cons

3.9 out of 5

7 reviews
87% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Akamai Bot Manager excels with its advanced rules for detecting and blocking bot scrapers, offering seamless integration and scalability for adding domains. Its features like BMS and BMP enhance bot detection accuracy. However, the learning curve, inadequate scraper blocking, and SDK integration gaps pose challenges. Machine learning-based fine-tuning and improved customer support are needed for optimal management of bot attacks, along with detailed data on origins and VPNs.

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PROS

Akamai Bot Manager has advanced rules for detecting and blocking bot scrapers.

The seamless integration and accuracy in bot detection are among the most valuable features.

It allows for easy scaling, with a simple process to add domains or subdomains.

BMS (Bot Manager Standard) and BMP (Bot Manager Premier) are two valuable features offered.

Immediate security benefits are visible upon implementation.

CONS

Akamai Bot Manager can improve SDK integration to enhance mobile app compatibility.

There is a lack of detailed information on the origins of illegitimate web scrapers and remote VPNs, making it difficult to block them effectively.

Akamai Bot Manager Premier lacks functionalities for app telemetry.

Sophisticated bot attacks have become more prevalent, requiring consistent fine-tuning to manage thresholds effectively without affecting real customers.

Customer support has areas that need improvement.

Akamai Bot Manager Pros review quotes

Krishnan Ekambaram

Cyber Recovery Lead at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 13, 2023

Akamai Bot Manager has two valuable features: BMS (Bot Manager Standard) and BMP (Bot Manager Premier).

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Gavin Pinho

Privacy & Risk Management Vice President, Information Security at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

May 8, 2024

In terms of the security provided, the benefits from the use of the product are immediately visible.

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Hari Iyer

IS/IT Consultant at Wipro Limited

Oct 16, 2023

Based on the telemetry, Akamai Bot Manager gives a rough estimate of all the hits and requests we get, which are suspected bots.

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PallaviSharma

Platform Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Oct 27, 2023

The best feature is the BNP. That is what Manager Premium does, protection of transactional endpoints.

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reviewer1892376

Chief Technologist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Jul 7, 2022

Akamai Bot Manager has more advanced rules that allow it to detect and block bot scrapers.

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reviewer2161107

Staff Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 25, 2023

Akamai Bot Manager is very easy to scale. Adding new domains or subdomains is a super easy process.

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Neha Shakyawar

Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees

Sep 14, 2022

The most valuable features of Akamai Bot Manager are the seamless integration and accuracy with which it detects the bots that can make attacks.

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Krishnan Ekambaram

Cyber Recovery Lead at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 13, 2023

We cannot block illegitimate web scrapers because Akamai Bot Manager does not provide detailed information about various origins and remote VPNs they come through.

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Gavin Pinho

Privacy & Risk Management Vice President, Information Security at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

May 8, 2024

I feel that customer support has certain concerns where improvements are required.

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Hari Iyer

IS/IT Consultant at Wipro Limited

Oct 16, 2023

Akamai Bot Manager Premier has some additional functionalities, particularly for web telemetry, but they don't have it for app telemetry.

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PallaviSharma

Platform Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Oct 27, 2023

I would say there is definitely a need of improvement because I think some start of this year or even, like one and a half years. But now have enough resources at their end especially with the, advanced AI and everything. So they have enough resources to launch basic bot attacks. And whenever we do some type of fine tuning, they are always somehow able to evade it or just fly under the threshold. And from our end, we also have to maintain those threshold so that we still do not start blocking the real general customer. So every time when they try to do something else, we have to see their traffic patterns and then find you in our solution.When these bot attacks happen, what we have to do is we have to check their, traffic patterns, their IT sees and then do the proper analysis. And based on that, the fine tuning is done. So I would say, like, based on these bot traffic, if there is a automatic fine tuning. With the help of machine learning at all, then that would be much more easier of beneficial. So this needs improvement.

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reviewer1892376

Chief Technologist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Jul 7, 2022

There are other rules that are user-friendly, however, many of the things have a learning curve. This is not something you enter into lightly.

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reviewer2161107

Staff Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Apr 25, 2023

In my opinion, the UI of Akamai Bot Manager is a bit unconventional and not as intuitive as one might expect.

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Neha Shakyawar

Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees

Sep 14, 2022

Akamai Bot Manager can improve by having better SDK integration. SDK would be required to integrate with any mobile applications and if they are able to make that more seamless, it will help.

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