Akamai App & API Protector vs. Instart Web Security

Akamai App & API Protector

14 Reviews and Ratings

Instart Web Security

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
Instart Web Security	N/A	N/A	Instart Web Security is designed to secure your web apps from the dangers of the public web. All entry points into your application servers, whether it be your website, your APIs, or your web apps can be protected and secured with Instart Web Security. Instart provides protection across the entire traffic path for your application — from inside the browser where customers and attackers interact with your site, to the edge, all the way to your cloud or physical application infrastructure. The…	N/A

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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Medium-sized Companies	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.3 out of 10	F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF Score9.3 out of 10
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	Instart Web Security
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Akamai App & API Protector	Instart Web Security
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	Instart No answers on this topic
Pros	Akamai Web Security Bot managment Rate Control Incentivized Randy Varela Offensive Security Engineer Lead Read full review	Instart 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	Instart 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	Instart No answers on this topic
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