People should definitely use the product. Most of the time, it will fulfill our requirements. The tool has many customers. The tool requires a lot of tuning. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.
Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-04-19T16:56:00Z
Apr 19, 2023
The support information is available on various platforms, such as community forums, support articles, and documentation. I found it challenging to locate the specific information I needed, but I attempted to do it myself without involving our engineering team. This process taught me a lot, but I realized that some of the information I learned earlier was not as relevant to the current situation, and much of the information was available within the tool itself rather than in offline documentation. It was an eye-opening experience for me, and I believe involving our engineering team or being more involved in the setup would have been helpful in finding the necessary information. I just tried to minimize the impact because our engineering team is always very busy. I tend to be self-directed when it comes to learning, and sometimes that can backfire. The information I need is available and applicable to the specific things I'm looking for. I can also identify the roadblocks. So, in that sense, the solution is great. Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.
I would advise potential customers to make sure that it's a medium or big company. It's not suitable for small companies. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Akamai Kona Site Defender above eight.
Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 10
2021-03-29T20:41:41Z
Mar 29, 2021
We are just customers and end-users. We don't have a business relationship with the company. I would recommend the solution. It depends on what the organization wants, however. If you're going for cost optimization or whether you are looking for a through and through security feature, it might vary in its acceptability. It depends on what exactly you want and your company's priority. However, overall, it's a good product. In general, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've mostly been quite satisfied with it.
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Solutions Architect, Cloud & SDDC at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2020-06-08T06:11:08Z
Jun 8, 2020
Programmability in the cloud is very important. So whatever we can program by APIs and define by API is very important in the infrastructure. I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.
Head of Cloud Security & DevSecOps at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
2020-01-26T09:26:00Z
Jan 26, 2020
My advice for anybody who is evaluating this solution is to first evaluate your needs, and then check to see how much you need to put into this solution. The biggest lesson that I have learned from using Site Defender is that you should do an analysis first, to see how it will fit into your ecosystem. You decide whether to buy it based on that, rather than because it is a good product. You have to make sure that it is compatible with your environment. Overall, I am happy with Site Defender because what it's doing, it's doing well. I can't think of a single feature that might be missing. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
CTO at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-08-18T07:52:00Z
Aug 18, 2019
As far as DDoS protection is concerned, I'm firmly in the Akamai Kona box. In terms of consistency, I think people should consider API-based adoption for Kona configuration. That gives us a broader state which looks and feels the same, and a small team can support it rather than needing a large team to support it. For what it does, it's really good. For what we want it to do, there's room for improvement. I'd give it an eight and a half out of ten. In order for it to be a 10 I would say that it should be one of the market-leading WAF solutions and not just a volumetric solution.
Security Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-03-11T07:21:00Z
Mar 11, 2019
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.
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People should definitely use the product. Most of the time, it will fulfill our requirements. The tool has many customers. The tool requires a lot of tuning. Overall, I rate the product an eight out of ten.
The support information is available on various platforms, such as community forums, support articles, and documentation. I found it challenging to locate the specific information I needed, but I attempted to do it myself without involving our engineering team. This process taught me a lot, but I realized that some of the information I learned earlier was not as relevant to the current situation, and much of the information was available within the tool itself rather than in offline documentation. It was an eye-opening experience for me, and I believe involving our engineering team or being more involved in the setup would have been helpful in finding the necessary information. I just tried to minimize the impact because our engineering team is always very busy. I tend to be self-directed when it comes to learning, and sometimes that can backfire. The information I need is available and applicable to the specific things I'm looking for. I can also identify the roadblocks. So, in that sense, the solution is great. Overall, I would rate it nine out of ten.
2 answers to your questions about Akamai Kona.
1. If you have Akamai Managed Services for Kona, pretty much you can take most recommendation provided by the Tech Support team
2. If you don't (Cannot Afford) Managed Services. there are 3 sets of Skill needed to be successful.
A. Understand the Computer Network Flow
B. Can read Code (Web application) and understand it
C. Information Security
D. Wear the Hat of Common Sense Business and Technology balancing
I would advise potential customers to make sure that it's a medium or big company. It's not suitable for small companies. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Akamai Kona Site Defender above eight.
I would rate Akami Kona Site Defender a seven out of ten.
We are just customers and end-users. We don't have a business relationship with the company. I would recommend the solution. It depends on what the organization wants, however. If you're going for cost optimization or whether you are looking for a through and through security feature, it might vary in its acceptability. It depends on what exactly you want and your company's priority. However, overall, it's a good product. In general, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. We've mostly been quite satisfied with it.
Programmability in the cloud is very important. So whatever we can program by APIs and define by API is very important in the infrastructure. I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.
My advice for anybody who is evaluating this solution is to first evaluate your needs, and then check to see how much you need to put into this solution. The biggest lesson that I have learned from using Site Defender is that you should do an analysis first, to see how it will fit into your ecosystem. You decide whether to buy it based on that, rather than because it is a good product. You have to make sure that it is compatible with your environment. Overall, I am happy with Site Defender because what it's doing, it's doing well. I can't think of a single feature that might be missing. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
As far as DDoS protection is concerned, I'm firmly in the Akamai Kona box. In terms of consistency, I think people should consider API-based adoption for Kona configuration. That gives us a broader state which looks and feels the same, and a small team can support it rather than needing a large team to support it. For what it does, it's really good. For what we want it to do, there's room for improvement. I'd give it an eight and a half out of ten. In order for it to be a 10 I would say that it should be one of the market-leading WAF solutions and not just a volumetric solution.
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.