What is Akamai App & API Protector?
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.
As Akamai’s flagship web application firewall (WAF) solution, Akamai Akamai App & API Protector is designed to quickly identify vulnerabilities and mitigate threats across the most complicated web and API architectures. WAF protections can be extended off the Akamai edge and into hybrid cloud and multi-CDN environments. Users can leverage bot, API, and advanced DDoS protections all in a single solution.
Layer 7 DDoS attacks target the application layer, aiming to disrupt the user interface or services like HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, and SMTP. These attacks are particularly insidious because they exploit the application layer, often bypassing traditional security measures. App & API Protector is powered by the new Behavioral DDoS Engine with a full suite of L7 capabilities to automatically defend against sophisticated DDoS attacks.
For developers, an open API is available for automating App and API Protector configuration changes in a CI/CD pipeline. A CLI and Terraform provider are also available for making API calls, or the API can be called directly. Documentation for the open APIs, CLI, and Terraform provider are publicly available; there is also a public Postman collection available for testing the API.
The WAF solution can be tried free for 30 days, and while a self-managed software solution, an optional managed and professional service is available to provide a managed solution.
As Akamai’s flagship web application firewall (WAF) solution, Akamai Akamai App & API Protector is designed to quickly identify vulnerabilities and mitigate threats across the most complicated web and API architectures. WAF protections can be extended off the Akamai edge and into hybrid cloud and multi-CDN environments. Users can leverage bot, API, and advanced DDoS protections all in a single solution.
Layer 7 DDoS attacks target the application layer, aiming to disrupt the user interface or services like HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, and SMTP. These attacks are particularly insidious because they exploit the application layer, often bypassing traditional security measures. App & API Protector is powered by the new Behavioral DDoS Engine with a full suite of L7 capabilities to automatically defend against sophisticated DDoS attacks.
For developers, an open API is available for automating App and API Protector configuration changes in a CI/CD pipeline. A CLI and Terraform provider are also available for making API calls, or the API can be called directly. Documentation for the open APIs, CLI, and Terraform provider are publicly available; there is also a public Postman collection available for testing the API.
The WAF solution can be tried free for 30 days, and while a self-managed software solution, an optional managed and professional service is available to provide a managed solution.
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What is Akamai App & API Protector?
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.