Akamai App & API Protector vs. open-appsec

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akamai App & API Protector
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Akamai Akamai App & API Protector offers protection for websites, web applications and APIs. An evolution of Kona Site Defender, a web application security platform designed to protect web and mobile assets from targeted web application attacks and DDoS attacks while improving performance.N/A
open-appsec
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open-appsec (openappsec.io) is an open-source initiative that builds on machine learning to provide pre-emptive web app & API threat protection against OWASP-Top-10 and zero-day attacks. It can be deployed as an add-on to Kubernetes Ingress, NGINX, Envoy and API Gateways. The open-appsec engine learns how users normally interact with a web application. It then uses this information to automatically detect requests that fall outside of normal operations and sends those requests…N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Akamai App & API Protectoropen-appsec
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Akamai App & API Protectoropen-appsec
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User Testimonials
Akamai App & API Protectoropen-appsec
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai Kona Site Defender KSD, works fine for any website or mobile application (Native/JDK), it can be used as a WAF, a rate limiting tool, or a bot management tool all in one, plus you will get all the benefits of the Akamai CDN (Content distribution network) as well
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Pros
  • Web Security
  • Bot managment
  • Rate Control
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Cons
  • Custom rules might be hard to configure
  • For some cases you will need to contact the Akamai team to adjust the backend
  • Interface might feel laggy if used in a non-powerful PC
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Return on Investment
  • Fair Security investment
  • An attack impact would be higher
  • Support contract is not cheap
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ScreenShots

open-appsec Screenshots

Screenshot of open-appsec uses a Contextual Machine Learning Engine that utilizes a three-phase approach for detecting and preventing Web application and API attacksScreenshot of open-appsec uses gamification in order to demonstrate the learning progress so you can always know the learning level and what to do next