We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Wallarm NG WAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"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 solution can scale extremely well."
"The features are powerful and better than F5."
"It enables us to move faster with new products because we have this layer of protection set up in our infrastructure."
"Traffic filtering and WAF are valuable."
"Akamai Web Application Protector is a good solution that provides basic web application protection."
"Helps us to monitor situation in regards to attacks to our sites and prevents a lot of them."
"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."
"Customer support has room for improvement."
"The WAF features definitely have a lot of room for improvement. A lot of the WAF is really basic. For some products or some of our solutions, we need to run a second layer of more advanced WAF. If it had better layer seven protection then we would not need a second WAF."
"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."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"The performance of the cloud monitoring tool is low."
"The pricing could be reduced a bit."
"The custom rules must be improved."
"The biggest problem for us was the stability and speed using the first version of Wallarm. Now, it is fine."
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Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Wallarm NG WAF is ranked 32nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF). Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Wallarm NG WAF is rated 8.6. 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 Wallarm NG WAF writes "Active threat detection and adaptive rules are the most valuable for us". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Prolexic and AWS Shield, whereas Wallarm NG WAF is most compared with Salt Security, Noname Security, AWS WAF, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare.
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