Find out in this report how the two API Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
Akamai API Security offers robust protection against DDoS attacks and is highly valued for its efficient API throttling capabilities, allowing multiple users to manage traffic effectively. This ensures both optimal performance and enhanced security by controlling API access and utilization.
\n\nAkamai API Security excels in safeguarding APIs with its industry-leading throttling features, allowing multiple users to prevent overload and abuse. By managing traffic efficiently, users can maintain service availability even under high demand or potential attacks. While the platform successfully combines machine learning with API throttling in its developing URL protection feature, there\'s room for improvement, especially in preventing false positives from reputable sources and precisely detecting threats from malicious hosting providers.
\n\n**What are the key features of Akamai API Security?**\n
- **API Throttling**: Efficiently manage and control the flow of API requests, ensuring consistent performance and avoiding overloads.\n
- **DDoS Protection**: Robust defenses against distributed denial-of-service attacks, safeguarding the availability and reliability of services.\n
- **Machine Learning Integration**: Enhanced threat detection by distinguishing between legitimate and malicious API calls, refining security measures.\n
- **URL Protection**: Developing feature that combines machine learning and API throttling for advanced security, with a focus on refining accuracy.
**What benefits should be looked for in reviews when evaluating Akamai API Security?**\n
- **Improved Performance**: Reduced risk of API overloads and maintained service availability during high traffic periods.\n
- **Enhanced Security**: Strong defenses against DDoS attacks and abuse, ensuring data integrity and safe access.\n
- **Efficient Traffic Management**: Smarter throttling mechanisms equipped to handle large volumes of requests, prioritizing legitimate usage.\n
- **Advanced Threat Detection**: Utilization of machine learning to better identify and respond to security threats.
Implementation of Akamai API Security across industries varies. For example, e-commerce platforms benefit from its robust DDoS protection and API throttling, ensuring customer transactions remain secure and services available during peak shopping times. Financial service companies use its machine learning capabilities to detect and block suspicious activities, preserving the integrity of client transactions while managing large volumes of API calls. Media streaming services leverage its ability to prevent overload, providing uninterrupted streaming experiences even during high demand events.
At Orca Security, we’re on a mission to make it fast, easy, and cost effective for organizations to address critical cloud security issues so they can operate in the cloud with confidence.
Key Platform Features:
Agentless: Complete, centralized coverage of the entire cloud estate, without the need for installing and configuring agents or layering together multiple siloed tools. Full visibility of cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, workload protection, malware scanning, image scanning, file integrity monitoring and more.
Asset Inventory: Get a complete inventory of all your public cloud assets, including detailed information on installed OSes, software, and applications, as well as data and network assets such as storage buckets, Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), and Security Groups.
Attack Path Analysis: Visualize attack vectors to critical assets or crown jewels. See which assets are susceptible to lateral movement, assume roles, privilege escalation, and more.
Risk Prioritization: Prioritize the 1% of risks that matter the most, based on impact scores. Secure the vulnerabilities and misconfigured targets (critical assets) and eliminate the potential risks residing on the attack paths to those targets.
Cloud Threat Detection: Monitor for malicious activity within your entire cloud estate. Be aware of detected threats, user behavior anomalies and more.
Breach Forensics: Log every change and all activity into a central repository for investigation procedures to confirm or deny entry and compromises within the cloud estate.
Cloud To Dev (Shift Left): Orca’s built-in shift left capabilities enables DevOps to focus more security attention earlier in the CI/CD pipelines. Security teams are able to trace a production risk (misconfiguration or vulnerability) directly to the original source code repository from which it came, even down to the exact line of code that is at the root of the identified risk.
Compliance: Choose from over 60 preconfigured compliance frameworks, cloud security best practices, CIS Benchmarks, or design and build your own compliance framework for fast and continuous reporting.
Security Score: The Orca Security Score is found on Orca’s Risk Dashboard and is updated daily. The overall score is calculated based on performance in the following five categories - Suspicious Activity, IAM, Data at Risk, Vulnerable Assets, and Responsiveness. Since the scores are percentage based and not raw numbers, you can objectively make comparisons to other organizations within your industry or business units of different sizes. In addition to reporting to senior management, the Orca Security Score can help with internal self-monitoring, as a way of measuring risk mitigation efforts, to know where to focus efforts, and track progress.
Orca Security Benefits
Consolidate technologies to reduce costs and complexity:
“The more I can get out of this one solution, the better. I see Orca as the tool where we get all cloud-related security data.” - Joshua Scott, Head of Security and IT | Postman
Avoid costly breaches:
"I look at proactive asset discovery, configuration management, and vulnerability management as being able to find a vulnerability before the bad guys do and being able to deal with it before something exploits it. This is what Orca does for us." - Doug Graham, CSO & CPO | Lionbridge
Increase team productivity and efficiency by focusing on high-value activities and solving the 1% of risks that matter most:
"Orca is unique in that it locates vulnerabilities with precision and delivers tangible, actionable results – without having to sift through all the noise." - Aaron Brown, Senior Cloud Security Engineer | Sisense
Quick Time-to-Value with Immediate ROI:
"Orca told us we could have some visibility within 5 or 10 minutes, and I thought, ‘There’s no way.’ Well, I was wrong. They really did it." - Thomas Hill, CISO | Live Oak Bank
Reduce MTTR and remove operational friction:
“We can’t ask developers things like ‘Did you think about security? When you start a new VM on AWS, can you please let me know so I’m able to scan it? Can you please deploy an agent on that machine for me?’ We need a better way to work. Orca provides that better way by eliminating organizational friction.” - Erwin Geirnaert, Cloud Security Architect | NG Data
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