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Akamai Bot Manager vs. Radware Bot Manager

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    Akamai Bot Manager

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AAkamai Bot Manager delivers advanced bot detection to spot and avert evasive threats, and to stay ahead of the evolving bot landscape and stop sophisticated bots at the edge ― keeping them away from business networks.N/A

    Radware Bot Manager

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ARadware Bot Manager (formerly ShieldSquare) is a non-intrusive API-based Bot Management solution to detect, eliminate, and manage bot traffic from websites, mobile apps, and APIs in real-time. The solution leverages Intent-based Deep Behavior Analysis, device fingerprinting, and domain-specific detection technologies to identify and eliminate invalid traffic with zero false positives. The vendor states they protect users against automated attacks such as account takeover, application…N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    8.0
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Akamai
    One of the most serious issues with commercial websites is dealing with bots. Even a good bot can slow down or render a website unresponsive. Because not all bots are evil, Akamai Bot Manager allows us to handle the bots that are required and those that are not. It adds an extra degree of security where typical solutions fail.
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    Radware
    All new upgraded non-human bot detection feature is widely used across all the platforms open for customers and it is a great success. It provides zero access to malicious bots.
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • Bot detection
    • Good selection of actions in case of bot detection
    • Easy implementation of its standard features
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    Radware
    • ShieldSquare provides an easy to implement way of identifying website users that could be bots.
    • By rating the potential of the user of being a bot, we are able to handle that user in the proper way.
    • False positives are extremely rare with ShieldSquare. Plus, their support staff is also available to analyze traffic to specific content, and they can customize their algorithms when necessary to optimize the performance of their solution to suit our needs.
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • Support might not be as fast as we want for custom implementations.
    • At the beginning the interface might be confusing.
    • Some new features they introduce might break existing features.
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    Radware
    • It would be nice to allow for more granularity when selecting which bots I'd like to allow through. I contacted support and asked about this and they said this was in the works.
    • If you select to show captchas instead of blocking, I feel their captcha screen could use some improvement on the UI/UX to make it more intuitive for users to know what to do. I contacted support and made them aware of this.
    • Would be nice to see captchas information in the statistics (i.e. how many captchas were presented, from what IP addresses, how many were filled out correctly),
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    Security concerns call for the deployment of Akamai Bot Manager. It assists in preventing bots from being unable to target our website and applications. The Akamai lab rejects the request or attack before it reaches my cloud infrastructure or my applications. My application is more secure as a result.
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    Radware
    When I compared these two products, Distil Networks only offered a solution where their bot detection sits in between your website and the visitors, similar to how Cloudflare works. I didn't want this so I decided to go for ShieldSquare that uses connectors. I want my visitors to hit the website directly, not have something sit in between.
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Reduce overall infrastructure maintenance due to less incoming traffic and leverage of caching rules
    • Better user experience on the website due to better overall performance
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    Radware
    • Network Bandwidth efficiency
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    ScreenShots

    Radware Bot Manager Screenshots

    Screenshot of Classification of BotsScreenshot of Integration - Support DocumentsScreenshot of ShieldSquare Dashboard