Akamai App & API Protector vs. Barracuda Application Protection

Akamai Kona Site Defender KSD, works fine for any website or mobile application (Native/JDK), it can be used as a WAF, a rate limiting tool, or a bot management tool all in one, plus you will get all the benefits of the Akamai CDN (Content distribution network) as well

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Good in providing threat protection especially our emails that come in from the outside. Capturing potential spam and malware from emails from outside our network has been good. Keeps us alert for anything coming in from the outside that could compromise our network.

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• Web Security
• Bot managment
• Rate Control

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• Automated policies
• Easy to use
• Identification of known attacks
• Straight forward configuration

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• 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

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• More innovative solutions for sniffing more on the network.
• Have the advanced ability to close off ports when they could be getting tested from hackers for intrusion.

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-Easy to deploy -Easy to manage application -Scalability is good -Security Features contains a lot of granularities especially URL profiles protection and Json security

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Price for the over all functionalities offered. Simplicity to configure and deploy in our current environment. Automated standard policies. easy to maintain.

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

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• Implementing Barracuda Application Protection has had a measurable and strategic impact on our overall business objectives. Within the first 6 months of deployment, I saw a 53% reduction in security incidents affecting the web applications, which directly translated into fewer service interruptions and less time spent on incident response
• Cloud migration was so fast and give a head start and provides a competitive advantage in deploying new services faster than anticipated.

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