We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product has a good user interface."
"The solution easily identifies, delays, or allows business traffic."
"We are getting security for each and every API."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"It gives us a report of traffic. It gives us a report of the day-to-day URL traffic, and it also gives an individual report. If we reach out to Akamai, they give us the IPs as well."
"The solution can scale extremely well."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"When configuring a web application firewall using Signal Sciences, we configure a rule whereby no one except a few people can access the application."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily."
"Fastly (Signal Sciences) integrates and tags the intermittent traffic based on patterns. It generates signals and provides them in a dashboard where we can view them and decide whether to allow or deny traffic. It's a more advanced and easy-to-navigate dashboard."
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"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"Akamai needs to focus on quickly responding to risks, even those that may potentially be of zero threat..Maybe some of the documentation is a little confusing. They have a lot of different places where you can go to get information, and some of the information is quite out of date."
"The performance of the cloud monitoring tool is low."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"If we talk about application layer attacks, including WAF, CloudFlare is leading. Akamai can focus a bit more on the application layer attacks and how to protect them."
"The areas that could be improved in Signal Sciences include the effectiveness of rules, as many didn't function optimally and required custom rule-writing to address bypasses for WAF."
"Fastly don't support caching for China users. That's the only feature lacking compared to Akamai."
"Even if we create some custom rules, Signal Sciences cannot capture some of the malicious traffic."
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Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is ranked 28th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 3 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Akamai App and API Protector writes "Easy to learn and gives us a report of traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) writes "A good solution to implement web application firewall for applications". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is most compared with AWS WAF, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) report.
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