Akamai App & API Protector vs. open-appsec

Akamai App & API Protector

14 Reviews and Ratings

open-appsec

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Akamai App & API Protector	Score8 out of 10	N/A	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.	N/A
open-appsec	N/A	N/A	open-appsec (openappsec.io) is an open-source initiative that builds on machine learning to provide pre-emptive web app & API threat protection against OWASP-Top-10 and zero-day attacks. It can be deployed as an add-on to Kubernetes Ingress, NGINX, Envoy and API Gateways. The open-appsec engine learns how users normally interact with a web application. It then uses this information to automatically detect requests that fall outside of normal operations and sends those requests…	N/A

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Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API Protector	open-appsec
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Enterprises	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.3 out of 10	Akamai App & API Protector Score8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Akamai App & API Protector	open-appsec
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	open-appsec
Likelihood to Recommend	Akamai 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 Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	open-appsec No answers on this topic
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	open-appsec No answers on this topic
Cons	Akamai 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 Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	open-appsec No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Akamai Fair Security investment An attack impact would be higher Support contract is not cheap Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	open-appsec No answers on this topic
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