Akamai Technologies, headquartered in Boston, offers Akamai Connected Cloud, a content delivery network (CDN) with a variety of services used to guarantee application, API, and media delivery.
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Barracuda Application Protection
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Barracuda Application Protection is a cloud-delivered application security service that includes full-spectrum L3-L7 DDoS protection (volumetric and application) to protect applications from disruptions and ensure nonstop availability.
Akamai is a superior premium services offering if that's what you need from a CDN. For more typical use cases, we're often more often than not implementing MaxCDN, or integrated CDNs from cloud providers (e.g. CloudFront, Azure CDN, etc). If you find that Akamai's offerings are really what you need, and you are okay paying the premium, the services themselves are great. There's a reason they're used by major enterprises of all sizes, and used for hosting video content from the NFL, etc.
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.
Caching is one of the greatest benefits that Akamai allows for, saving time, money and experiencing the user experience.
Knowing they provide DDOS and other attack protection gives you peace of mind.
How finely you can tune all of the different settings available to you, from blocking IPs, cache settings, headers, redirects and even handling error statuses .
-Easy to deploy -Easy to manage application -Scalability is good -Security Features contains a lot of granularities especially URL profiles protection and Json security
Their support documents are excellent and provide a lot of useful information for all their services. The only reason I didn't give them a 10 is that the time it takes for them to respond to an issue could be slightly faster.
Akamai offers sophisticated security and defense layers in addition to its content delivery network. Its focus on security is well known and beats offerings from AWS and Azure to punches. It redefined the cloud security market by extending its core offering.
Price for the over all functionalities offered. Simplicity to configure and deploy in our current environment. Automated standard policies. easy to maintain.
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.
