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Akamai API Security solution protects APIs throughout their entire lifecycle, from dev to prod.
Overview
Akamai API Security is a purpose-built solution to protect APIs throughout their entire lifecycle, from development to production. With Akamai, companies can build secure APIs, secure their existing APIs, detect vulnerabilities before they are exploited, and greatly reduce the API attack surface.
The solution is designed to align with four industry-standard API Security domains:
- Discovery: Identify and catalog all APIs present within your environments (Discovery Module)
- Posture Management: Assess and maintain the overall security posture of your APIs (Posture Management Module)
- Runtime Protection: Safeguard APIs and their associated resources during runtime or execution (Runtime Protection Module)
- Testing: Find and remediate API vulnerabilities during the development lifecycle (Active Testing Module)
Akamai API Security has been developed to seamlessly integrate with your existing application environments, including API gateways, load balancers, and WAFs, to provide complete visibility into your APIs without introducing complexity or disrupting your existing infrastructure.
Highlights
- Discovery, Posture, Runtime, Testing
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Pricing
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
Akamai API Security | Entry level package for 1 year | $150,000.00 |
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All fees are non-cancellable and non-refundable except as required by law.
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API Discovery
Automated identification and comprehensive cataloging of APIs across different environments
Vulnerability Assessment
Systematic evaluation of API security posture and potential weaknesses before production deployment
Runtime Protection Mechanism
Real-time safeguarding of APIs and associated resources during active execution
Active Security Testing
Proactive identification and remediation of API vulnerabilities during development lifecycle
Infrastructure Integration
Seamless integration capabilities with existing application environments like API gateways, load balancers, and web application firewalls
API Traffic Analysis
Collects and analyzes API traffic across entire application landscape using big data and AI/ML techniques
Threat Detection
Uses patented AI to baseline legitimate API behavior and identify potential attackers during reconnaissance phase
API Discovery
Automatically identifies all APIs, including shadow and zombie APIs, with continuous and automated discovery mechanisms
Vulnerability Identification
Proactively detects and highlights API vulnerabilities before production traffic deployment
Attack Prevention
Correlates attacker activities to a single entity and blocks attackers comprehensively instead of individual transactions
API Discovery
Automated identification and mapping of internal and external APIs using patented analytics engine
Machine Learning Traffic Analysis
Advanced machine learning techniques for analyzing API traffic without requiring JavaScript instrumentation or mobile SDK integration
Attack Detection and Prevention
Customizable rules and policies to detect and mitigate automated attacks like account takeovers, credential stuffing, and API business logic abuse
Behavioral Fingerprinting
Dynamic tracking of attack patterns using behavioral fingerprint technology across different attack methodologies
Flexible Mitigation Options
Multiple response mechanisms including blocking, rate limiting, geofencing, and deceptive response generation for API protection
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43 external reviews
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venkat k.
Its very good
Reviewed on Feb 24, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Its very easy to use and good pricing. Cheap prices
What do you dislike about the product?
May be more cheaper prices would be good
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
webhosting and server hosting
Marketing and Advertising
Amazing for clearing cache
Reviewed on Jan 09, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of the Akamai intergration is amazing. I use it frequently throughout the day.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not found anything that i dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making my updates show up as soon as i send a request.
Deepesh Singh
Excellent API authentication support but needs better analytics and reporting
Reviewed on Dec 13, 2024
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
My primary use case was to identify PII and financial information exposed over APIs, focusing on accidental exposures or poorly constructed APIs.
What is most valuable?
I conducted a proof of concept for four months to identify PII and financial information exposed through APIs. Primarily, the API part is effective. I have been using Akamai AppMyWAF. The tool's API authentication, tokenization, and enhanced scalability and performance are valuable features. Akamai 's support is impeccable, and its plug-and-play features are helpful.
What needs improvement?
The challenge I found was with contextualization and how analytics are generated. Reports were sent in a raw format without proper analytics. There was no mechanism to identify which APIs will always have PII information, such as those with PCI data. Tuning to skip known APIs wasn't available.
For how long have I used the solution?
I used the tool for a pilot project, but the subsequent proof of concept was not conducted.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Performance and scalability are handled well, posing no problem.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
From a traffic load perspective, I find the tool is always better in terms of scalability and performance.
How are customer service and support?
The support from Akamai is impeccable. It is expensive but one of the best.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Negative
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
The solution is not difficult to set up. It's a plug-and-play add-on, making it simpler for organizations already using Akamai WAF.
What about the implementation team?
Support from Akamai was consistent, with a dedicated technical account manager from their side.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I mentioned that support from Akamai is expensive yet it is worth it.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I explored API security from a multiple domain approach with different tools.
What other advice do I have?
Based on my last assessment, I would rate the solution four out of ten.
PallaviSharma
The solution protects APIs from DDoS attacks, but it should use machine learning and API throttling together
Reviewed on Oct 27, 2023
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
We use Akamai API Security to protect our APIs from any DDoS attacks.
What is most valuable?
API throttling is the most valuable feature of Akamai API Security.
What needs improvement?
It would be beneficial to use machine learning and API throttling together to identify how the APIs are called and whether it's coming from the right person or the wrong person. Akamai is developing that type of feature called URL protection, which is a mixture of API throttling and machine learning. Before blocking everything, this feature would check and first block requests coming from a hosting provider with a bad reputation.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Akamai API Security since 2017.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Akamai API Security is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
At least 25 to 30 users are using Akamai API Security in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have a limit to the number of APIs we can use inside a bundle, and we have to pay extra if we exceed that limit.
What other advice do I have?
Users can use Akamai API Security depending on their use cases. Akamai API Security has simple features, and it's not very complicated.
Overall, I rate Akamai API Security a seven out of ten.
Justine (Stein) E.
REAL GAME CHANGER FOR WEB PERFORMANCE AND SECURITY
Reviewed on Aug 22, 2023
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Akamai software has a vast content delivery network which has drastically improved our website load times. Their Web Application Firewall (WAF) and DDoS mitigation services are also outstanding.
What do you dislike about the product?
More budget-friendly options tailored to startups and smaller enterprises would be a great deal.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the software has eliminated of slow website loading times. This for us has boosted user satisfaction and engagement, ultimately driving business growth.