Akamai Recognized as a 2023 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Cloud WAAP
Akamai is a 2023 Customers' Choice for Cloud WAAP for the fourth consecutive year on Gartner® Peer Insights.™ Web Application & API Protection, or WAAP, is the solution evolution of the traditional web application firewall.
While Gartner’s renowned analysts produce their own market guides across a wide range of enterprise technology solutions, the Voice of the Customer document is based on customer feedback, not analyst research. To earn the Customers’ Choice recognition, a solution provider must meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption.
The customers who reviewed Akamai for Gartner Peer Insights span a broad range of organization sizes, with annual revenue ranges of less than US$50 million to greater than US$30 billion. Additionally, the five-star reviews include major verticals such as finance, retail, manufacturing, media, communications, energy and utilities, transportation, and more.
To view our customers’ thoughts, visit the Gartner Peer Insights site or read a selection of the comments that made us blush:
I have been using Akamai App & API Protector for several months now and have been extremely impressed with its performance and capabilities.”
We are very satisfied with the protection against ddos attacks, bot mitigation and application security.”
Akamai AAP is a fully featured WAF, including web attack detection, ddos protection, bot management and api protection. In addition to the outstanding production, the service team is quite professional and quick in response.”
Powerful Security Engine With A Wide Configuration Range"
Very Strong Security Tool With Big Customization Possibilities"
Akamai is devoted to delivering exceptional experiences to our customers. As this recognition is straight from our customers’ voices, we would like to thank all our customers for their support and partnership in powering and protecting life online for the last 25 years – especially those who contributed thoughtful and expansive reviews on Gartner Peer Insights. If you have an Akamai story to share, we encourage you to join the Gartner Peer Insights crowd and weigh in.
See why Akamai customers recommend Akamai Security Solutions
Learn more about how Akamai compares with other providers in the cloud WAAP market — read the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Web Application and API Protection report.
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