Akamai Bot Manager Reviews & Product Details

Akamai has better capability to identify bot traffic than it's current competitors. Also it can bifurgate between good and bad bot traffics. Morever you can also integrate it with difference tools like SIEM as well directly with API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing major to dislike but UI/UX is good but hard to remember the navigation for first time user. I will take someone to remember it about 3-4 weeks. Also pricing is higher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is to create rules, and also to make excellent detection, generating less falsehoods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like everything, it's very simple to use when it's aligned with the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Able to have a free trial

Strong pre evaluatation on for business risk reduction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Difficut to get tech support at the begining of the process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most powerful tool of all CDNs, the database of bots is big and this is the best feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unfortunately, the price, but the investment is justified considering all the benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

working on the edge of cloud to provide clean and efficient traffic which is useful. also mitigation of bots between real and fake in terms of security is really cool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing so far everything looks good at first glance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It mitigate most of the bot traffic.

Categorises the bot traffic into different categories.

Identify the good bot traffic which are declared by customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One thing I dislike is sometimes Akamai don't block the high surge in bot traffic by itself, we need to involve Akamai for mitigation of traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bot Manager comes either integrated with the contract package and can also be bought stand-alone.

Akamai has already categorized more than 3k bot signatures to identify the bots.

Bot consol is intuitive and very flexible.

The custom bot can be created per your criteria to add to the existing database of bots.

A far more advanced action can be taken, instead of just allowing/denying. For example, the bot can be directed to a different website, tarpit[ed] or even slowed down.

Bot manager premier(BMP) comes with capability which bearly has its equals in the market.

Bot console is great, to view all the stats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If not tuned properly, you may get lots of false positives.

We had to apply a lot of exceptions as different teams have different requirements.

Few thresholds (Like session validation) are not visible to customers and you may need to coax the Akamai team to get the thresholds.

BMP is costly given its very advanced detection but is apt to prevent a lot of attacks done with a botnet.

For BMP, most of the configuration is handled by the akamai Team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It will help you to manage the alerts and create behavior-based incidents for your environment, which will help to mitigate the attack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing to dislike in the excellent bot manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akamai Bot Manager depends on a robust and ensured data set of bot classes that Akamai persistently refreshes. No other bot the board item is as thorough regarding recognizing genuine traffic from bot traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akamai bot manager outsmarts the most sophisticated and elusive bots, which protects apps from evolving bots Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akamai has an excellent product that we are able to manage with a small but capable devops team. They have improved the availability of self-service APIs that allow us to automate Akamai endpoint management via our fully programmatic devops stack, CI and CD. The Akamai solution is at the premier price point and requires good understanding to make the most of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akamai has a tendency to charge "on-boarding fees" as a services charge to each time a new product is activated. There appears to be a tilt towards monetising every implementation both from licences and from service fees. We are customers that prefer to self-help and if we are capable of doing that, we shouldn't have to use the compulsory, paid on-boarding services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.