

The 2020 Q1 Forrester Wave also positioned Akamai as a WAF market leader, noting KSD’s investment in developing advanced API security features.

Both the Akamai WAP and KSD hold an average of 4.7/5 star rating of 191 user reviews on Gartner Peer Insights. Next to Imperva, the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant puts Akamai as the only other WAF market leader. Leaving its CDN technology and advanced security features, Akamai is also one of the leading top zero trust solutions. The Kona Site Defender (KSD) goes much further in offering enterprise-level anomaly detection, threat intelligence, and control automation. With two options to choose from, the Web Application Protector (WAP) offers DDoS protection, bot management, and is pre-configured to detect the latest threats. Akamai: Kona Site Defender and Web Application Protectorįrom the 1998 MIT Entrepreneurship Competition to today, Akamai Technologies is now a top provider of WAF solutions.
