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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have implemented bot manager over our web apps, especially booking engine, which we have seen stopped hundreds of bot attacks daily.

This has increased our business performance with better website uptime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akamai Bot Manager Overview

What is Akamai Bot Manager?

Bot Manager relies on the simple premise that bots are not all created equal. Many bots play a legitimate role in your online business strategy. Others harm your business by reducing competitive advantage, getting between you and your customers, or committing fraud. Bot Manager provides a flexible framework to manage bot traffic based on the needs of your business—to better engage with your customers, improve your security posture, and control the traffic coming to your website every day.

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Product Description

Bot Manager relies on the simple premise that bots are not all created equal. Many bots play a legitimate role in your online business strategy. Others harm your business by reducing competitive advantage, getting between you and your customers, or committing fraud. Bot Manager provides a flexible framework to manage bot traffic based on the needs of your business—to better engage with your customers, improve your security posture, and control the traffic coming to your website every day.


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Year Founded
1998
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Cambridge, MA
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@Akamai
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10,409 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ:AKAM
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$3,198
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At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over
0 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world.With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences.Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation.


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Recent Akamai Bot Manager Reviews

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Paul F.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Say Good Bye to Bad Bots"
Able to have a free trial Strong pre evaluatation on for business risk reduction
WD
Wagner Rodrigo D.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Visibility and protection for threat detection"
I like how easy it is to create rules, and also to make excellent detection, generating less falsehoods.
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Nisarg S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Akamai Bot manager: Product you can rely on for Website and Web Application security"
Akamai has better capability to identify bot traffic than it's current competitors. Also it can bifurgate between good and bad bot traffics. Moreve...

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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides us the better visibility in terms of bot traffic visiting our website / web applications. How many are good bots and bad bots. Also it gives the details like from where the bots has been originated. Statistics given is also useful like bot traffic from total traffic. Blocked requestes, allowed requests. Also Rate limiting configuration is a lot helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

WD
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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bot detection, protection against fraud and digital attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PF
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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

Able to have a free trial

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

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing superior bot detection technology Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MV
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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

Unfortunily the price but the investiment is justify front all benefits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Account takeover, this is my priority problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Akamai Bot Manager effectively managing good bots — all without impacting user experience. It protects apps and assets, regardless method used by customers to interact . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SJ
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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Akamai is stopping bot related attacks, traffic which is not coming from humans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Handling bots is one of the major problems with enterprise websites. Even a good bot can make website performance slow or render it unresposive.

Not all bots are bad, hence Akamai bot manager gives us the capability to manage the bots needed and those not needed.

It provides an additional layer of security where traditional solutions do not work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

To create behavioural based alert and metigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

What do you dislike about Akamai Bot Manager?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Akamai Bot Manager:

This is a great product for fast-growing and enterprise customers with clear budget availability for the premier DDoS, CDN and Bot-protection vendor. Managing these services from the same configurations on the same web-interface for all our properties allows my devops team to be lean and productive. This minimises end-user latency as opposed to using multiple point solutions from multiple vendors who are likely to be cheaper but leads to a degradation of the customer experience of our end customer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Bot Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We would have stared using Akamai earlier than in 2015. We had used Cloudfront, Cloudflare, MyraCloud (DDoS), Limelight, Edgecast (for CDN) until we moved to Akamai. Akamai has more PoPs in our region than anyone else and offers all other functionality in the same appliance that the PoPs sit on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.