Akamai Bot Manager

Score9.3 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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Pros

Effective bot traffic mitigation: Several users have found that the bot manager effectively mitigates bot traffic, categorizing it into different categories. This feature has been praised by multiple reviewers as it helps in managing alerts and creating behavior-based incidents to mitigate attacks.

Identification of good bot traffic: Users appreciate the ability of the bot manager to identify good bot traffic declared by the customer. This capability allows for better management and understanding of the overall traffic, according to multiple reviewers.

Intuitive and flexible console: The intuitive and flexible nature of the bot console has received praise from users. Multiple reviewers have highlighted its ease of navigation and the ability to view all necessary statistics conveniently.

Reviews

3 Reviews

Solution for a strong and effective bot manager.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 2, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Akamai Bot Manager provides a fantastic solution that we can handle with a small but capable devops team. They have increased the availability of self-service APIs, allowing us to automate Akamai endpoint management through our completely programmatic devops stack, CI, and CD. The Akamai Bot Manager solution is expensive and takes extensive knowledge to fully utilise.

Pros

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.

Cons

If not correctly calibrated, you may receive a lot of false positives.
We had to make a lot of exceptions because various teams had different needs.
BMP is expensive due to its advanced detection, yet it has the potential to thwart many botnet-based attacks.

Likelihood to Recommend

One of the most serious issues with commercial websites is dealing with bots. Even a good bot can slow down or render a website unresponsive. Because not all bots are evil, Akamai Bot Manager allows us to handle the bots that are required and those that are not. It adds an extra degree of security where typical solutions fail.

Verified User

Executive in Marketing (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Easy to implement with good out-of-the-box features

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 13, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We helped one of our customers implement Akamai Bot Manager in their main website (including e-Commerce) to avoid scrapers and malicious internet traffic coming from all over the world. It also helped increase the website performance by serving cached content to bots that tried breaking standard caching rules.

Pros

Bot detection
Good selection of actions in case of bot detection
Easy implementation of its standard features

Cons

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)

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

AKAMAI Bot Manager offers what they promise.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 26, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Akamai Bot Manager helps me and my customers to gain visibility over the bot traffic vs the real traffic and take the appropriate actions, besides being black or white ( deny/allow) it has another set of options very useful for our infrastructures such as tarpit or delay. Akamai Bot Manager is easy to install on websites and even mobile applications through the SDK package.

Pros

Detects bots traffic.
Take actions over the bot traffic.
Proactively protects agains known bad bots.

Cons

Support might not be as fast as we want for custom implementations.
At the beginning the interface might be confusing.
Some new features they introduce might break existing features.

Likelihood to Recommend

E-commerce or financial websites fits very well for this product but it can be applied to any existing website in practice. Akamai Bot Manager introduces new features every so often that help me and my customers to stay protected against the latest threat without worrying to update my hardware or software in my environment.

Randy Varela

Offensive Security Engineer Lead in Professional Services at ATTI Cyber (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

4 years of experience

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