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Seller Details
Year Founded
1998
HQ Location
Cambridge, MA
Twitter
@Akamai
119,772 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
10,409 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ:AKAM
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$3,198
Description

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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Limbert A.
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Limbert A.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best protection for critical systems"
Ease implementation and use, great channels support
Tarun G.
TG
Tarun G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Using it for performance testing in my organization"
reporting is very good, can do desired load testing.
Sabyasachi S.
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Sabyasachi S.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Best caching CDN"
Caching and scalable. The dashboard is also very good to manage.
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Limbert A.
LA
Risk Analyst
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

Ease implementation and use, great channels support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

standard and limited types of contracts or SOW Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

resolve problems of availability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anurag M.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

The way traffic is routed. Helps a lot in mitigating the risk of company's apps and reputation fromgetting damaged. Also, it can be customized, thereby providing a great flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

It is not at all useful if you have acl in place. IPs needs to be added manually, thereby creating a huge amount of manual efforts. Also, IPs needs to be updated every now and then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps our application to only have intended traffic which helps in mitigating the risk of getting attacked. With the ongoing rise of cyber threats, Akamai Site Shield is very helpful to organizations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Md. Tahseen K.
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Senior Network and Systems Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

It's nice to have, which cloaks your origin server at layer 3 allowing only legitimate requests (coming via Akamai edge server) to pass through. Preventing direct to origin attack, in case your origin IP/hostname is revealed.

It's easy to use and IPs do not change very frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

The product works in tandem with your firewall or any device where you can add ACLs, allowing only site-shield IPs. If you haven't put the ACLs, it's useless to have them.

Updating IPs in your firewall/ACL device is manual and there are no automated integrations.

If you fail to update the changed IPs, the old ones are removed from the site-shield map, reducing the map size of your traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving the direct origin attack scenario. When security is pushed from perimeter to cloud, org becomes lenient on perimeter security. Attackers can bypass the cloud hitting the origin/perimeter directly to gain access. Site-shield cloaks your origin, blocking any traffic which is not coming via Akamai cloud (thus inspected for malicious ones). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

It enhance the site security and minimize the risk by restricting the direct access to the application . It offers one extra level of security of any application which is a big advantage for the current world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

Lots of effort is required if IPs need to be added manually. If the IPs count are more then it becomes a bog challenge to add manually and update is every time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Akamai site shield offers an extra layer of security of any application and websites. It eliminates them from Internet-accessible IP address space. This helps to prevent from hackers and attackers . They cant directly target the application due to one extra layer security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

Akamai Site shield provides protection to all the applications hosted on the internet for better security.. One of the best feature of Akamai Site shield is that it provides protection to all the applications hosted on the internet for better security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

IP's are to be updated manually which is a tedious task, if you have ACL, also we need to update the same every time. Compared to the other CDN providers Akamai is a big budget Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps our application to only have intended traffic which helps in mitigating the risk of getting attacked. With the ongoing rise of cyber threats, Akamai Site Shield is very helpful to organizations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monish S.
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Network System Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

Bot Manager as well as images and video manager is the best product I have use in daily tasks perform as well as ddos Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

It’s awesome apps like ddos and ,images and video manager I use personally, its best, bot manager as well as personalized I used Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help from unwanted threads, secure your devices, as well as enterprises to protect web assets from web application and DDoS attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

Akamai site shield can be managed along with your existing firewall setup. With the help of the akamai site shield intelligence platform attacks can be identified and prevented at the early stage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

Everything is well equipped. The documentation can be improvised and can be simplified for the users. It will help people to learn the basics properly. The knowledge-based articles of the akamai site shield can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Protection from distributed denial-of-service(DDOS) attacks specifically provides protection attackers to hit the origin directly. It helps in blocking unrecognized IP addresses. It also helps in blacklisting and whitelisting of IP addresses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Qazi A.
QA
Security Consultant
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

Akamai guarantees that our site is always available and that our users will have as good an experience as possible which enhance one piller of information security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

Manual effort is required to update the IP it can be automate to save the manual efforts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Enhance site security and mitigate

Gain an additional security layer

Reduce the infrastructure costs

Enhance cloud security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hemant S.
HS
Technical Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

Faster and Safer

Minimal setup needed with an option to do a wider spectrum of setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

Nothing specific

Decaching mechanism can be improved

The luna control portal can be improved more from UI perspective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

Akamai site sheild gives me an Overall site protection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Akamai Site Shield?

It has a strong stack of signatures which secure network from various injections and hijacking attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Akamai Site Shield?

I find it little expensive as compared to other competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Akamai Site Shield solving and how is that benefiting you?

CDN is helping us to improve page response time and saves server resources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.