GM IT at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2023-10-04T04:57:00Z
Oct 4, 2023
We are using Akamai App and API Protector for the protection of our APIs. We have an OTT platform that serves as an aggregator of multiple providers. There are multiple channels streaming on the OTT platform. We need to protect the APIs as well as subscriber information and general information. Akamai App and API Protector protect us from hackers and malware attacks. It protects us from malware IPs and helps with proper streaming.
Associate Director at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
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2023-10-04T04:55:00Z
Oct 4, 2023
The majority of our traffic is app-based. We are a mobile-focused company. We have a news aggregation platform, and we have a TikTok type of social media platform in India. It is one of the largest platforms. Everything is on mobile applications, so we have a heavy use of APIs. We use Akamai App and API Protector to look at the traffic patterns and identify malicious traffic. There are people who try to inject malicious data and get into our infrastructure, we also use it for that. These are two use cases for which we use Akamai App and API Protector.
We are using Akamai App and API Protector for security purposes. We were not able to do monitoring of each and every API. It was really difficult. Most APIs are public, so we were looking for a solid security solution. Akamai gave us a demo. We liked it and purchased it.
I have been using Akamai's Content Delivery Network and WAF products. The Akamai App and API Protector product is new to us. We are still implementing it. We were facing some security issues. We faced some attacks in the past. That was the reason for implementing Akamai App and API Protector. We wanted to protect our website. That was the main reason.
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We upgraded from Akamai WAF and ION to Akamai App and API Protector. We upgraded to Akamai App and API Protector mainly for Bot Manager because Bot Manager is included in it.
Dev Ops at a media company with 501-1,000 employees
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2023-10-02T10:47:00Z
Oct 2, 2023
We are a media company, and the news delivery has to be the fastest. Any live event, such as a cricket match or election results, has to be really fast. We cannot afford any downtime or any factor like that. We need immediate delivery. There are things like caching, so when we have a five-minute TTL, we have to reduce it or increase it immediately. Those are mostly the use cases we have. We use 301, 4xx, and 5xx redirections a lot. That is pretty much the day-to-day activity. The image optimizer and things like that also come in handy.
We are using the product mainly for our content delivery network and e-commerce. When the users go to our site, they get redirected to Akamai, which acts as a firewall and gets information from the cache or our web servers.
Chief Technologist at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
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2022-07-07T15:45:22Z
Jul 7, 2022
We use Akamai Web Application Protector to block IP addresses and countries. If for example, you don't want users from Amazon AWS, you could configure it to block them. It also has safeguards against common attacks like SQL injection. It does support some advanced custom rules, but you'll need someone from Akamai to code them. That isn't very user-friendly.
Akamai App and API Protector provides website security by preventing DDoS attacks, acting as an application firewall, managing content delivery, and monitoring APIs. It adapts to threat profiles and is used for fast media delivery and identifying malicious activities.Akamai App and API Protector offers strong protection, adaptable security features, and efficient traffic management. Its WAF blocks IP addresses and country-specific threats while preventing SQL injections. Companies utilize it...
We are a B2C company. We do financial payments using apps. All our traffic comes through this system.
The tool protects organizations from attacks, SQL injection, and DDoS attacks. We mostly used it for DDoS attacks.
We are using Akamai App and API Protector for the protection of our APIs. We have an OTT platform that serves as an aggregator of multiple providers. There are multiple channels streaming on the OTT platform. We need to protect the APIs as well as subscriber information and general information. Akamai App and API Protector protect us from hackers and malware attacks. It protects us from malware IPs and helps with proper streaming.
The majority of our traffic is app-based. We are a mobile-focused company. We have a news aggregation platform, and we have a TikTok type of social media platform in India. It is one of the largest platforms. Everything is on mobile applications, so we have a heavy use of APIs. We use Akamai App and API Protector to look at the traffic patterns and identify malicious traffic. There are people who try to inject malicious data and get into our infrastructure, we also use it for that. These are two use cases for which we use Akamai App and API Protector.
We are using Akamai App and API Protector for security purposes. We were not able to do monitoring of each and every API. It was really difficult. Most APIs are public, so we were looking for a solid security solution. Akamai gave us a demo. We liked it and purchased it.
I have been using Akamai's Content Delivery Network and WAF products. The Akamai App and API Protector product is new to us. We are still implementing it. We were facing some security issues. We faced some attacks in the past. That was the reason for implementing Akamai App and API Protector. We wanted to protect our website. That was the main reason.
We upgraded from Akamai WAF and ION to Akamai App and API Protector. We upgraded to Akamai App and API Protector mainly for Bot Manager because Bot Manager is included in it.
We are a media company, and the news delivery has to be the fastest. Any live event, such as a cricket match or election results, has to be really fast. We cannot afford any downtime or any factor like that. We need immediate delivery. There are things like caching, so when we have a five-minute TTL, we have to reduce it or increase it immediately. Those are mostly the use cases we have. We use 301, 4xx, and 5xx redirections a lot. That is pretty much the day-to-day activity. The image optimizer and things like that also come in handy.
We used Akamai Web Application Protector for protection from layer seven attacks.
We are using the product mainly for our content delivery network and e-commerce. When the users go to our site, they get redirected to Akamai, which acts as a firewall and gets information from the cache or our web servers.
Our company uses the solution to access and protect web applications. We have over 150 customers who use the solution.
We use Akamai Web Application Protector to block IP addresses and countries. If for example, you don't want users from Amazon AWS, you could configure it to block them. It also has safeguards against common attacks like SQL injection. It does support some advanced custom rules, but you'll need someone from Akamai to code them. That isn't very user-friendly.