We performed a comparison between Akamai App and API Protector and Radware Alteon 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."The most valuable feature is the custom rules feature. This is because many of our customers require a lot of custom rules. Because it's a very customized project for our customers, I think they have the best of everything already."
"Adaptive stream delivery and WAF protection are valuable."
"The product has a good user interface."
"The most valuable feature is the DDoS protection, which is the main reason we got it."
"It is scalable for DDoS."
"The product is user-friendly."
"Everything will be handled by Akamai's system before it reaches our infrastructure."
"All the solution's features are very good."
"The solution has been very stable."
"The link load balancing is a great feature."
"The device blocks threats and allows legitimate users to work correctly."
"Security is one of the most valuable features that I like. It is easy to use and easy to configure."
"The most valuable features of Radware Alteon are the reverse proxy functionality and the SSL offload and hardware."
"I like the concept of self-service, that I can do everything on my own."
"With Alteon, the load-balancing options are practically unlimited. We haven't had any issues with offloading, decryption, putting in cookies, or any other load-balancing features. We can check URLs, etc., on the back end for load balancing instead of running a TCP check. We're also doing some certificate stuff on there. Alteon covers all of the standard load-balancing techniques, and we employ most of them daily."
"The interface is easy, it's friendly, and has good alerting."
"The solution could offer even more integrations."
"They are already very flexible, but room for improvement is there. Reports generation could be better and should be improved."
"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."
"There are some issues with pushing configurations across a network. It still takes about 20 minutes and that means to retract it's another 20 minutes."
"It would be better if there weren't any issues with latency. We had latency issues, but I think they are all solved now."
"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."
"It would be nice if Akamai Web Application Protector's price is lowered and made cheaper."
"Support and the pricing need to improve."
"I would like for the load balancing to work with premier and the cloud, a mix of premium and cloud."
"The solution could be more robust."
"You need to have pretty good internal knowledge of the solution."
"Recently our team was talking about the things you can customize in Alteon and the level of programming that doing so demands. I would like to see more information on how to customize the programming and troubleshoot."
"Radware Alteon could improve the troubleshooting from the command line interface, they could do a better job making it easier."
"The user interface can be improved."
"Support is an area that needs improvement."
"We’d like the solution to include more security features in the standard license."
Akamai App and API Protector is ranked 8th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 27 reviews while Radware Alteon is ranked 10th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 33 reviews. Akamai App and API Protector is rated 8.4, while Radware Alteon is rated 8.4. 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 Radware Alteon writes "It's a good fit for a small team because the maintenance is easier and you don't need to know how to code". Akamai App and API Protector is most compared with Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Prolexic, AWS WAF and AWS Shield, whereas Radware Alteon is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, HAProxy, F5 Advanced WAF and A10 Networks Thunder ADC. See our Akamai App and API Protector vs. Radware Alteon report.
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