Privacy & Risk Management Vice President, Information Security at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
Sep 19, 2025
For the DDoS protection, I don't see any areas for improvement because they are pretty solid there, though in bot management, there are times when attackers find ways to bypass Akamai, which is a continuously evolving challenge.
The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises. Pricing should be more transparent and visible on the website. Currently, we need to request pricing through an email back-and-forth and that takes time.
Senior Network & Security administrator at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees
Real User
Mar 22, 2018
The web portal for checking status and traffic needs improvements. For example, it's not possible to change the time zone, so all graphs display the wrong time.
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For the DDoS protection, I don't see any areas for improvement because they are pretty solid there, though in bot management, there are times when attackers find ways to bypass Akamai, which is a continuously evolving challenge.
The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises. Pricing should be more transparent and visible on the website. Currently, we need to request pricing through an email back-and-forth and that takes time.
The web portal for checking status and traffic needs improvements. For example, it's not possible to change the time zone, so all graphs display the wrong time.