We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Checkmarx One based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"The dashboard is the most interesting feature of the Akamai portal where you can have a detailed analysis of all the attacks that are happening. You can drill down an issue and see exactly what is happening, who are the bad guys attacking your website, and how Akamai is protecting the website. That is the most valuable feature."
"All the solution's features are very good."
"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 is scalable for DDoS."
"The product is user-friendly."
"I have contacted the support team of Akamai... I am happy with their responses and answers to my problems."
"The most valuable feature is the simple user interface."
"Vulnerability details is valuable."
"The solution allows us to create custom rules for code checks."
"The main benefit to using this solution is that we find vulnerabilities in our software before the development cycle is complete."
"Overall, the ability to find vulnerabilities in the code is better than the tool that we were using before."
"We were using HPE Security Fortify to scan code for security vulnerabilities, but it can scan only after a successful compile. If the code has dependencies or build errors, the scan fails. With Checkmarx, pre-compile scanning is seamless. This allows us to scan more code."
"The reports are very good because they include details on the code level, and make suggestions about how to fix the problems."
"We use the solution to validate the source code and do SAST and security analysis."
"The interface is a little bit clunky and can be improved."
"In terms of precedence of Akamai rules, the last one is implemented. That is the one that is operational. If two rules contradict, the last one is implemented. We had a clash, but it was really tough to find that out. I would like to have a rulebook because, in their architecture documentation, it is not mentioned anywhere that if two rules clash, the last one works, and if it does not work, then what to do. This is something we were debating today with their tech support. With AWS, we get documents for the issues so that they do not occur in the future. Akamai's support and knowledge base needs to be improved."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"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."
"Could integrate more features for each security."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"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 statistics module has a function that allows you to show some statistics, but I think it's limited. Maybe it needs more information."
"The lack of ability to review compiled source code. It would then be able to compete with other scanning tools, such as Veracode."
"C, C++, VB and T-SQL are not supported by this product. Although, C and C++ were advertised as being supported."
"Some of the descriptions were found to be missing or were not as elaborate as compared to other descriptions. Although, they could be found across various standard sources but it would save a lot of time for developers, if this was fixed."
"The interactive application security testing, or IAST, the interactive part where you're looking at an application that lives in a runtime environment on a server or virtual machine, needs improvement."
"In terms of dashboarding, the solution could provide a little more flexibility in terms of creating more dashboards. It has some of its own dashboards that come out of the box. However, if I have to implement my own dashboards that are aligned to my organization's requirements, that dashboarding feature has limited capability right now."
"The tool is currently quite static in terms of finding security vulnerabilities. It would be great if it was more dynamic and we had even more tools at our disposal to keep us safe. It would help if there was more scanning or if the process was more automated."
"I would like to see the DAST solution in the future."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Checkmarx One is ranked 3rd in Application Security Tools with 67 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Checkmarx One 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 Checkmarx One writes "The report function is a great, configurable asset but sometimes yields false positives". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas Checkmarx One is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Snyk and Coverity.
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