We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) 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."I like that the charges are all based on usage and labor costs. For the time that we spend onboarding almost 252020 FQDN, Akamai charges us only for the traffic usage, but it's only charging us for the labor costs for onboarding."
"The product has a good UI."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"They have a fantastic tool for analyzing and viewing your traffic."
"The support that we got from their technical team has been fantastic. I have never experienced this level of support from other CDN providers."
"The product is user-friendly."
"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 CDN and the WAF features are the best."
"The fact that I can log into the platform and see everybody, see logs, authentication failure, and see everything on one platform, is the most valuable feature."
"It is good for web tracking applications."
"We use it to secure VMs and applications. It protects against DDoS attacks. It's very user-friendly."
"The product is easy to configure."
"The tool secures our critical applications, especially the mobile money application, which is often targeted by attacks. The solution provides rapid protection and has proven reliable against various threats."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall blocks attacks from application layers and provides protection."
"The machine learning on FortiWeb WAF is valuable."
"The platform's stability is good."
"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 They have a lot of different places where you can go to get information, and some of the information is quite out of date."
"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."
"Akamai App and API Protector is very new to me, so I do not have any insights on improvement areas for the product. However, when we ask for some help, it can take some time. We understand that the job is done by professionals, but if that time can be reduced, it would be great."
"The performance of the cloud monitoring tool is low."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"Could integrate more features for each security."
"One thing I asked them is to integrate the API discovery product that they have and push that data into Akamai App and API Protector so that we do not have two types of reviews to identify the type of traffic. We already know the APIs that are frequently getting used, so analysis becomes easier. We can integrate both products and use them."
"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."
"We have encountered issues with webhooks and management of FortiWeb Web Application Firewall's on-premise version."
"It would be good if the solution integrated with other solutions, like SAP."
"The product lacks features offered by enterprise-level firewall tools."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall needs to improve its performance."
"The product is complicated to set up."
"The documentation is poor."
"FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) needs to update its attack prevention database."
"WAF needs more signatures on FortiWeb and updates the database continuously to protect against new attacks."
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Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is ranked 16th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 13 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is rated 8.0. 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 FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) writes "Protects internal applications and prevents target attacks ". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) is most compared with F5 Advanced WAF and Azure Front Door. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. FortiWeb Web Application Firewall (WAF) report.
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