--- title: Akamai Site Shield Reviews meta\_title: 'Akamai Site Shield Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 21 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Akamai Site Shield works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.6 review\_count: 21 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Hosting url: https://www.g2.com/categories/hosting --- # Akamai Site Shield Reviews & Product Details Akamai Site Shield is a security solution designed to protect web applications by concealing origin servers from direct internet access. By routing all incoming traffic through Akamai's globally distributed network, Site Shield ensures that only legitimate requests reach the origin, effectively mitigating threats such as Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks and other malicious activities. Key Features and Functionality: - Origin Cloaking: Removes web applications from publicly accessible IP address space, preventing attackers from targeting the origin directly. - Traffic Routing: Ensures all client requests are directed through Akamai's Content Delivery Network , allowing for inspection and mitigation of potential threats before they reach the origin. - Stable CIDR Blocks: Utilizes a defined set of IP subnet ranges to route traffic, reducing the operational overhead associated with frequent firewall ACL updates. - Integration with Akamai Security Solutions: Works seamlessly with other Akamai cloud security technologies, such as Kona Site Defender, to provide a comprehensive defense strategy. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Site Shield enhances the security posture of organizations by preventing attackers from bypassing cloud-based defenses and directly targeting application origin servers. By cloaking the origin infrastructure and consolidating connections through Akamai's network, it reduces the risk of DDoS attacks and other malicious activities, ensuring uninterrupted service availability and improved performance for end-users. * * * Seller [Akamai Technologies](https://www.g2.com/sellers/akamai-technologies) Discussions [Akamai Site Shield Community](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-site-shield/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Cloudflare Application Security and Performance](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cloudflare Application Security and Performance") Cloudflare Application Security and Performance 4.5/5(696) ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudflare-application-security-and-performance/reviews) [ ![Amazon CloudFront](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amazon CloudFront") Amazon CloudFront 4.4/5(192) ](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudfront/reviews) [ ![Bunny CDN](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bunny CDN") Bunny CDN 4.8/5(512) ](https://www.g2.com/products/bunny-cdn/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-site-shield/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 21 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Tarun G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tarun G.") TG Tarun G. Software Test Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/14/2022 "Using it for performance testing in my organization" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? reporting is very good, can do desired load testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? none as of now..have to check all aspects..training material is not widely available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? performance of application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sabyasachi S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sabyasachi S.") SS Sabyasachi S. Senior Principal Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/6/2022 "Best caching CDN" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? Caching and scalable. The dashboard is also very good to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? Manage the caching and price for the enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? we are benefitting through caching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chavan S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chavan S.") CS Chavan S. Subject Matter Expert Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/15/2022 "Satish Chavan" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? I like Site Shiled API designed and synt Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? Explaination is typically confusing to understand in one shot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? Most of the problems relevant to Cloaking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Anurag J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anurag J.") AJ Anurag J. Design Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/8/2022 "Excellent Web Security Solution for Large Enterprise" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? The way it effectively secures the Web Gateways in an enterprise by removing them from Internet reachable IP address space. It can be managed along with your existing firewall setup. It doubles the DDoS protection in my opinion. Just wonderful piece of Akamai Solution! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? So far I've not seen any downside of the product. All just works smoothly and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Site Shield: Go for it without double thoughts! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? To have our URLs removed from public reach so our applications remain safe. It has reduced burden of downtime on our important web gateways as it requires less monitoring now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/20/2022 "Akamai is one of the best company to provide cloud services with high security." 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? Akamai Site shield protects crucial websites with extra security. With the help of its intelligence platform attacks can identified and mitigated at the early stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? Akamai experience has always been amazing. There's nothing I can mention here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? Akamai Site Shield protects the original application IP from targetted attacks like DDOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") CH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/21/2022 "Secure" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? The security and shielding this provides to the application is beyond words Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? Nothing I can think that could be disliked about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? This has helped out site in removing from internet accessible IP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vivek P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vivek P.") VP Vivek P. Technical Architect Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/31/2022 "It helped control traffic to my customer’s nonPROD environments" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? The feasibility with which we could add the IP Range to secure the access to non-PROD regions from outside the organization's network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? None, I don't dislike any feature of the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Site Shield: It's a great tool with capabilities to control traffic to your application's utilizing Akamai CDN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? We need to restrict Internet traffic to our non-PROD regions of the customer website. It has helped us to seamlessly control the IP List to which we can allow traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") AR Verified User in Retail Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/12/2022 "Akamai Site Shield User experience Review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? User friendly Interface, CDN and WAF policy features, Ability to implement on the existing infrastructure Custom rules implementation to cater the needs of different customers. And, excellent Customer Support service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? Product documentation or the knowledge base articles can be improvised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Akamai Site Shield: Being a user of both Akamai and Amazon. I can confidently recommend Akamai over Amazon based on the overall experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? Custom rules implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/10/2022 "Akamai Site Shield is a great asset for any website" 4/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? Having the peace of mind that your website is protected when configured correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? Akamai Site Shield could improve its overall user experience and rework the available interfaces to be more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? We are shielding our sites by ensuring attackers cant access the application origin directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Facilities Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Facilities Services") AF Verified User in Facilities Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/1/2022 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Awesome feature Akamai Site Shield" 5/5 What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield? Site Shield help us to protect attacker to targeting application origin. Cool feature we can Akamai datacenter ips via making api call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield? It everything look good. I have not comment on this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you? Protection from ddos attack specifically provide protection attacker to hit origin directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Akamai Site Shield? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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