Akamai Bot Manager vs. Radware Bot Manager

Akamai Bot Manager is perfect if you want a clear idea of how much real human traffic is on your website. Bots are rarely harmful but can overload your underlying hardware/cloud architecture, increasing maintenance costs. This is especially true if you are handling an eCommerce website since traffic spikes - due to marketing initiatives or promos - can kill your website when you need it most.

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If someone needs a bot mitigation solution and they are losing customers/users because of it, I would recommend ShieldSquare with no reservations.

• To identify the bots, Akamai Bot Manager has already classified over 3000 bot signatures.
• The bot console is simple to use and versatile.
• The custom bot can be constructed based on your specifications and added to the existing bot database.

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• Bot detection is great, goes far beyond checking user agents or requests/second.
• Lots of integration options. You can use connectors in your code (php, javascript, etc) or in your webserver (nginx, etc.)
• Support is awesome.

• Bots are created all the time, so sometimes the heuristics used by the solution can detect false positives
• For Mobile Apps, you need and external SDK (Akamai BMP)

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• Wish if the Reporting feature has some more drilling down

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Security concerns call for the deployment of Akamai Bot Manager. It assists in preventing bots from being unable to target our website and applications. The Akamai lab rejects the request or attack before it reaches my cloud infrastructure or my applications. My application is more secure as a result.

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As we have already implemented other Radware tools such as Cloud WAF and Threat Intelligence, it is much easier to carry on with the existing known vendor. Moreover with a great deal and most importantly product functionality and performance. Given the above reasons, Radware Bot Manager was selected and we are confident that it is the correct choice.

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• Good ROI over the first month.
• Gain visibility over bot traffic.
• Protect websites and mobile applications.

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• Our analytics dashboard shows the correct data.
• Our traffic has been genuine with most if not all of bot traffic eliminated.
• We can now protect our pricing strategy from the competition.

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