Customers’ Choice: 2026 Gartner® Peer Insights™ for Network Security Microsegmentation
Discover how Akamai stood out with a 4.8/5 rating and 99% recommendation rate.
Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice: API Protection
Akamai scored 4.6 out of 5 out of 57 reviews as of January 2026 overall, but the best part is what our customers had to say.
Leader and Fast Mover in 2026 GigaOM Radar for Microsegmentation
Akamai is positioned closest to the center of the Radar, reflecting our ability to balance strong execution along with a rapid pace of innovation.
KuppingerCole names Akamai a Leader across four API security and management categories
See why Akamai API Security was named a Leader in the Overall, Product, Innovation, and Market categories in a new report.
Akamai once again a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for WAAP
With a 99% willingness-to-recommend rating based on 133 reviews as of July 2025, earned the nod for the sixth year running.
Customers’ Choice: 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ for Online Fraud Protection
Akamai was the only vendor to receive this distinction in the “Voice of the Customer” report.
Customer favorite in Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platforms, Q3 2025
Akamai received the highest scores in the Segmentation and Control, Pricing flexibility and transparency, and Supporting services and offerings criteria.
Product Awards
CRN 20 Coolest New Cybersecurity Products At RSAC 2025 - Firewall for AI
Recognizes vendors at RSA who are showcasing new tools utilizing AI for powering security operations and protecting networks, email and cloud environments.
2025 Datos Impact Award
Datos Insights, a leading research and advisory partner in the securities industry, recognized Akamai as a winner of the Silver 2025 Datos Impact Award
2025 API Award - Best in API Security
The 2025 API Awards are the definitive awards for the API & microservices industry.
2025 Global InfoSec Award for API Security
The Global Infosec Awards are put out by Cyber Defense Magazine to recognize top performers in the cybersecurity sector.
2025 AI Tech Award in the category of AI Security & Privacy
Recognizes outstanding design, engineering, and innovation in developer technology and tools.
SecureIQ Leader in the 2025 Cloud WAAP CyberRisk Validation Report
Measures web application firewall security protections (Akamai achieved a 0% false positive rate across more than 1,360 diverse attacks tested)
Company Accolades
Akamai was named one of America’s Most JUST Companies 2026
Fortune’s America’s Most Innovative Companies 2026
Honoring companies transforming industries from the inside out, the list is built on three pillars: product innovation, process innovation, and innovation culture.
Forbes America's Best Employers 2026
Honor based on salary, work environment, benefits and opportunities to advance.
Akamai is Awarded a Glassdoor Best-Led Company 2025
Awarded to organizations demonstrating outstanding leadership, this recognition is based entirely on anonymous employee reviews submitted on Glassdoor.
Akamai CEO Wins Emmy® Award
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognizes visionary Akamai co-founder and CEO Dr. Tom Leighton with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Lifetime Achievement Award.
TIME America’s Best Mid-Size Companies 2025
Financial Times Europe’s Best Employers 2025
Newsweek America’s Greatest Workplaces in 2025
MTLC Best Workforce Culture
Forbes Most Trusted Companies 2025 & 2026
WSJ Best Managed Companies 2025 & 2026
Newsweek America's Best Cybersecurity Companies 2025
Forbes Net Zero Leaders
Newsweek Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity
Akamai has been named to the S&P Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI)
