2019-03-11T07:21:00Z

What is your primary use case for Akamai Kona Site Defender?

How do you or your organization use this solution?

Please share with us so that your peers can learn from your experiences.

Thank you!

Julia Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
Community Director at PeerSpot
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ON
Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-04-19T16:56:00Z
Apr 19, 2023

I am currently working on a use case involving vulnerabilities and deferral requests made by individuals seeking to complete their remediation. These vulnerabilities are categorized and require an SLA for remediation based on their severity. If a certain category of vulnerability cannot meet the mitigation deadline, it must be approved. I am responsible for explaining why mitigation is impossible, the remediation time frame, and the holdup. My approach to addressing vulnerabilities is to evaluate the risk from Akamai WAF's perspective and the application's exposure. I review the WAF for external vulnerabilities to determine if the specific issues have been addressed. The adaptive function of the WAF is powerful, as it can detect suspicious behavior and pick up on issues. The adaptive role sets and behavioral activities seem to be very effective in this regard. Additionally, the WAF can share information such as IP ranges or addresses associated with certain kinds of activity. If a threat is detected on one WAF, it may be blocked across all WAFs owned by different enterprises. As for my understanding, I cannot say for certain. While I am not entirely sure about how the WAF works in sharing information and blacklisting potential threats, I believe it is an effective solution. However, I would caution against quoting me on this as I may not have all of the information. So, that's a very powerful feature. However, assessing when something is not explicitly described in the rule set can be challenging. It's difficult to determine if it's being prevented or not. But, I have noticed that it's very effective at preventing people from even being able to identify the existing vulnerabilities. This is a great prevention measure, and it can adapt to different situations by considering various factors, including those specific to the WAF and threat intelligence data. It seems to work really well, but I can't speak to the overall effectiveness of all the activities.

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CF
Senior Security Engineer at Singtel
Reseller
Top 10
2021-10-07T08:23:25Z
Oct 7, 2021

I provide a service. We manage the Akamai service for our customers. Our customers are predominantly government agencies and medium-sized companies, and banks.

YA
Co-Founder and CEO at PT Eugenea Kreasi Utama
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-07-29T16:47:15Z
Jul 29, 2021

We use Akamai Kona for our cloud services.

Neha Shakyawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-03-29T20:41:41Z
Mar 29, 2021

We primarily use the solution as an application firewall.

IA
Solutions Architect, Cloud & SDDC at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
2020-06-08T06:11:08Z
Jun 8, 2020

We have multiple use cases but the solution is primarily for content delivery network. The product has multiple features so we area also using it as a wall. It's really a combination between a CDN and a WAF. We also use Adidol switches. We are partners with Akamai and I'm a cloud solution architect.

TI
Head of Cloud Security & DevSecOps at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
Real User
2020-01-26T09:26:00Z
Jan 26, 2020

We use this solution primarily to prevent DDoS attacks.

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AC
CTO at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-08-18T07:52:00Z
Aug 18, 2019

We're using it as DDoS on a basic WAF. We use a hybrid cloud deployment model.

GL
Security Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-03-11T07:21:00Z
Mar 11, 2019

We use it for website protection.

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Neha Shakyawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Information at a leisure / travel company with 51-200 employees
Mar 29, 2021
The pricing isn't the highest, however, it's not the lowest either. They could adjust it so that it was a bit more affordable. It would be appreciated by the customers. It's expensive, however, if you compare it to AWS, you'll get different services that you'll have to collaboratively pick in order to get the same solution that Akamai provides to you in one package.
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