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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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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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.
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.
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.

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.
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.

Faster and Safer
Minimal setup needed with an option to do a wider spectrum of setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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.
It has a strong stack of signatures which secure network from various injections and hijacking attacks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I find it little expensive as compared to other competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.