We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Check Point CloudGuard WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), F5, Microsoft and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."I can attest to its benefits in terms of understanding and mitigating threats...The solution's technical support team seems to be pretty responsive."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"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."
"We are getting security for each and every API."
"It is scalable for DDoS."
"Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable."
"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"I find the configuration and real-time monitoring features valuable."
"After integrating AppSec with other applications, team members can easily work without fear of confidential information exposure."
"The portal is quite intuitive."
"The features I have found most valuable are the comprehensive threat prevention capabilities, automated policy management, and seamless integration with cloud environments."
"The solution offers sophisticated security techniques with unique characteristics that can be particularly valuable for the financial sector, which is where we develop apps."
"On the endpoint side, the most valuable feature is undoubtedly the cloud-based management capability, along with the ransomware protection, despite not encountering any instances so far."
"Its main value and what we liked the most is its powerful AI."
"The solution offers continuous security monitoring and alerting, which can help organizations detect and respond to security incidents in real time."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"The custom rules must be improved."
"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."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"One area where Akamai can improve is the captcha part. Cloudflare provides a captcha if there are a certain number of threats. For example, I can assign that if there are 10 requests within a second from a single IP, it should send a captcha to the user. The user should fill in the captcha, and only after that, the user should be able to access our website. This captcha feature should be built into Bot Manager. I love this captcha feature of Cloudflare."
"A lot of piracy happens in India and other countries. If there is a product for protection from piracy, it would be great. For example, there are multiple hackers that hack your event, and there are some channels that pirate and publish the event on some other website. We protect our streaming through DRM and different technologies. We are also protecting the website, but hacking is still happening. If they can work on protecting from piracy, it would be great."
"It would be nice if Akamai Web Application Protector's price is lowered and made cheaper."
"The creation of security profiles for each application takes a lot of time."
"In terms of features, I do not have any negatives. Their integration is extremely quick. It is better than others I have been involved with in the past. Their pricing model, however, can be better."
"For the next release, I would suggest considering features like enhanced threat intelligence integration."
"We would like the solution to be more economical since it is not accessible to all clients."
"I do not know if it is already there, but I would like to have complete visibility between the posture management and firewall as a service."
"CloudGuard could improve in areas such as ease of integration with Fortinet and reducing costs associated with deployment in cloud environments like Azure."
"We would like to have a solution of this type for the administration of applications from mobile devices."
"I would like to be able to integrate the theme of Artificial Intelligence to help review issues and to monitor and view the security issue while also suggesting and interpreting and additionally configuring solutions - basically, acting as an interpreter."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Check Point CloudGuard WAF is ranked 13th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 29 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Check Point CloudGuard WAF is rated 9.0. 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 Check Point CloudGuard WAF writes "Automation capabilities also help streamline security processes and smooths down API integration processes and detects API availability". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas Check Point CloudGuard WAF is most compared with SonarQube and Checkmarx One.
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