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Akamai App & API Protector

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16 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Akamai App & API Protector?

Akamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.

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Akamai Kona Site Defender the most complete WAF in the market

Incentivized
Randy VarelaView profile
Offensive Security Engineer Lead in Professional Services at ATTI Cyber (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Akamai Kona Site Defender (KSD), is not only a Web Application Firewall, is a suite of security and delivery products that any organization with a big web presence should have. Having Akamai Kona Site Defender in my organization give me the peace of mind that my web services are secure and we are monitoring traffic in real time with all the dashboards we need.

Pros

  • Web Security
  • Bot managment
  • Rate Control

Cons

  • Custom rules might be hard to configure
  • For some cases you will need to contact the Akamai team to adjust the backend
  • Interface might feel laggy if used in a non-powerful PC

Most Important Features

  • Security
  • Content managment
  • Bot managment

Return on Investment

  • Fair Security investment
  • An attack impact would be higher
  • Support contract is not cheap

Other Software Used

Splunk Cloud, Tenable.io, Rapid7 InsightVM (Nexpose)