CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Akamai
Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge
platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, has
been named a January 2020 Gartner
Peer Insights Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls.
The Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice is a recognition of
vendors by verified end-user professionals, acknowledging the
best web application firewalls tools as reviewed by customers.
"Akamai's vision is to make it easier for our customers to
protect their entire web application footprint – whether
on-premises or in the cloud – against a rapidly growing set of
threats with leading capabilities in DDoS protection, application
security, API protection, and bot management on an integrated edge
platform," said Raja Patel, Vice
President of Products, Web Security at Akamai. "It is gratifying to
be recognized by our customers as their strategic partner in
securing their applications and keeping their businesses safe
against the constantly changing threat landscape."
The customers who reviewed Akamai for Gartner Peer Insights span
a broad range of organization sizes, with annual revenue ranges of
less than fifty million to greater than thirty billion U.S. Dollars. Additionally, the
5-star reviews include major verticals such as finance,
retail, manufacturing, media, communications, energy and utilities,
transportation, and more.
Testimonials from Akamai customers include:
"We have been using the Akamai WAF solution for the past 5 years
and it has delivered every piece of result that we, as an
organization, require to protect our assets at the edge. The
managed service component eases the burden to maintain a skillset
within our company, thereby leveraging the highly competent
security skills of Akamai along with its product suite. Their
continuous upgrade of ruleset is pretty smooth, and helps to be
ahead of curve in the ever changing threat landscape of security."
– Senior Cyber Security Engineer in the Services Industry
"The Kona WAF SAAS has worked flawlessly for us for over four
years. We transferred to the fully managed service after the Akamai
SOCs time and again demonstrated fast and accurate response to
threat management that exceeded our own abilities. We boast zero
downtime due to cyber attack in complete contrast to our previous
experience; many of our sites are attack magnets and under 24x7
attack... according to the logs." – Head of Architecture – MCIT in
the Finance Industry
"Bot Manager delivers advanced bot detection in spotting and
preventing the most evasive threats. This tool stops the most
sophisticated bots that can harm your business. This tool's been
very helpful for my company as it helps us deal with the issues
evolving from account takeover and fraud. This advanced tool uses
current detection technology that makes it relevant and
efficient." – CTO in the Manufacturing Industry
"Bot Manager Premier is a great product against credential
stuffing attacks, as well as any automated bot traffic. Comes with
telemetry detection injection that inspects user interactions to
determine if the user is a human or a bot. Easy to deploy and
configure, especially if you already use WAF/Kona." – Lead Solution
Architect in the Finance Industry
"Akamai is a very professional partner with excellent WAF
capabilities. Setup and use of the tools is both comprehensive and
easy - which is very rare in the SaaS market. The tools allow for
complete control on the customer side with very few exceptions.
Pricing is competitive with proper negotiation from client side." –
Head of eCommerce and Analytics in the Energy and Utilities
Industry
"The Bot Manager and Bot Manager Premier products have been
instrumental in securing our web properties. The advanced analysis
and features that can identify and then block bad bots while also
providing visibility on grey bots is invaluable." – Director
of Security Architecture and Engineering in the Services
Industry
In addition to customer recognition, Akamai has received
research recognition as well, named a Leader for the third
consecutive year in the September 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Web Application Firewalls. Akamai also received the highest scores
for API security and web scale critical business application use
cases for the second year in a row in Gartner's October 2019 Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web
Application Firewalls Services report.
For additional information regarding Akamai's intelligent edge
security platform, including its WAF offerings, visit here.
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about the 2020 Gartner Peer Insights
Customers' Choice for Web Application Firewalls
- Download the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web
Application Firewalls
- Download Gartner's 2019 Critical Capabilities for
Cloud Web Applications Firewalls Services report
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About Akamai
Akamai secures and delivers digital
experiences for the world's largest companies. Akamai's intelligent
edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the
cloud, so customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and
secure. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them realize
competitive advantage through agile solutions that extend the power
of their multi-cloud architectures. Akamai keeps decisions, apps
and experiences closer to users than anyone — and attacks and
threats far away. Akamai's portfolio of edge security, web and
mobile performance, enterprise access and video delivery solutions
is supported by unmatched customer service, analytics and 24/7/365
monitoring. To learn why the world's top brands trust Akamai, visit
www.akamai.com, blogs.akamai.com, or @Akamai on Twitter.
Contacts:
Tim Whitman
Media Relations
617-444-3019
twhitman@akamai.com|
Tom Barth
Investor Relations
617-274-7130
tbarth@akamai.com
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