My primary use case was to identify PII and financial information exposed over APIs, focusing on accidental exposures or poorly constructed APIs.
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Its very good
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
Amazing for clearing cache
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.
Excellent API authentication support but needs better analytics and reporting
What is our primary use case?
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.
The solution protects APIs from DDoS attacks, but it should use machine learning and API throttling together
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.
REAL GAME CHANGER FOR WEB PERFORMANCE AND SECURITY
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.
Akamai All in One Solution
What do you like best about the product?
In terms of security solutions, Akamai provides many different security solutions depending on the requirement. The highlights here are that all their solutions can work as one meaning all data are consolidated and correlated afterward, giving you the best data for visibility.
What do you dislike about the product?
Akamai is known for acquiring other vendor to add it to their current solutions. The drawback here is that so many added solutions within a short time make it harder to learn and gain expertise on it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Akamai helps protect to secure web traffic within a given environment. It can be through HTTP/HTTPS layer, DNS layer protection and any other protocol residing on Layer 7 of OSI Layer. As a distributor, it helps us to position this product easily because of its offerings. As a user, I can easily manage all these solutions because of a central management system or single pane of glass management available out of the box.
Best and secure alternative to a VPN
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to connect to the secure organisation environment, safe and secure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing it works well, we have not faced any chanllanges till date.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Secure connection to organisation network and to access its applications
Akamai for business
What do you like best about the product?
Akamia is an industry leader in WAF solutions and their DDOS protection is one of the best services in terms of configuration, very low latency issue, high availability, and cost
their WAF is also integrated with various AST solutions to protect assets and apply patches temporary by integration with AST
Their account takeover protection is also provide advance protection with spoofing attacks
their WAF is also integrated with various AST solutions to protect assets and apply patches temporary by integration with AST
Their account takeover protection is also provide advance protection with spoofing attacks
What do you dislike about the product?
Akamia App and API security is a little bit complex to configure and needs some changes in an existing production environment plus minor changes in code and there are some latency issues in production during high traffic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Akamia provides multiple solutions in a single basket (App and API security, DDOS protection, and account takeover protection), the best thing about Akamia is we can easily integrate it with various application security tools to create rules as soon as a vulnerability is reported so it will act as a temporary patch
It's way costly but definitely worths the price
What do you like best about the product?
Our best alternative for content delivery network is Akamai after Cloudflare. We have a lot of customers for those we have developed custom software, and on each case, Akamai has given us precisely what we need. Also it is quick and simple to use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Akamai's preliminary configuration is hard to understand, and the API is difficult to implement. We also encountered initial issues with large pictures and videos struggling to load, which demanded extra development work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use this for Streaming mainly, one of our clients has an online image editing tool, which requires heavy transfers of stock images. We use Akamai for enterprise use only, it offers a robust API to scale and a better solution category.
promiscuous mode
What do you like best about the product?
The best part is the caching process. The way it caches in the nearby areas is really worth appreciating. I have been using Akamai CDN since quite a long time i.e. around 5 years till now and its doing great.
What do you dislike about the product?
As of now there is nothing much that I can think of as dislike in Akamai COntent delivery Network i.e. CDN. I believe they can improvise the plans though. But again, its not that necessary. Guys are doing great job
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Like I said, Akamai Content delivery Network i.e. CDN is helping people to fetch data from the internet with lightning-fast speed. It helps organizations to aggregate more and more data in limited amount of time. Proxy services are also of great use
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